Abstract by the author: “So many complex phenomena have emerged from economic and social systems that traditional economics and management science can do nothing about them. For resolving the problems under the environment of complexity, scientists have been trying to search the routine of coping with complex problems since the 1970s. As the result of their efforts, five schools of science of complexity can be identified. So in this paper, the five schools are compared systematically. The thoughts and theories of the schools are analyzed respectively. Finally, the developed and applied foregrounds of the schools of complexity are prospected.”
Xuefeng wrote this after his return to China University of Mining & Technology in summer of 2000, sending Warfield a copy by email attachment on August 4, 2000. Warfield is listed as co-author on the document. Xuefeng's email said that the article was sent to a Professor Gu Jifa, as a paper for KS2001 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Gu Jifa). It is an 8 page manuscript printed in two columns as if ready for a proceedings volume. A footnote on page 1 says "Supported by NSFC (No. 7997115)" That would be National Science Foundation of China, probably.
In 2011 Rose Warfield looked up the KSS2001 CONFERENCE on internet and did not find Xuefeng’s paper listed in the web page program. Perhaps the paper was not accepted? We don’t know for sure. An edited and condensed version of the paper was published in Panetics Journal under the title "The Schools of the Science of Complexity" in October 2000. Warfield probably edited it and turned it in. I have the Panetics version listed separately by title, in PAPERS BY OTHERS TABLE OF THIS DATABASE. It is the same paper which Xuefeng wrote in March or April 2000, but with some slight changes, especially a change of title. The original title was "An Effective Approach To Manage Complexity Of Organizations: The Structure - Based Science Of Complexity," also in Warfield Special Collection, in Box 21, Folder 50.
