Original pre-publication manuscript is in Box 81, Folder 20. The publisher's offprint and an email correspondence are in the folder which is being sent to add to Box 81 Folder 20 in the year 2007. The title on the offprint is "System Profile". Everywhere else it is "Systems Profile." In the GMU Library Finding Aid the title is "Systems Profile." "System Profile: 1925 to Now" was an invited paper for the journal Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Date of original manuscript writing is 11 August 2003. Publication date was 2005. As you can tell by examining the email correspondence, 3 or 4 years earlier Alexander Christakis had been in communication with Amanda Gregory the Systems Research associate editor. In 1999 Christakis was promoting a Warfield Systems Profile article. Amanda had then had sent an email request that Warfield do a Systems Profile. Why had Warfield waited til 2003 to write this article? When I asked him, Warfield said that even if Christakis had been pushing the idea with Amanda he himself was reluctant to go along because he saw that the Systems Profile feature (which Warfield himself had innovated and produced while editor of Systems Research) HAD NOT BEEN CONTINUED under Mike Jackson's editorship. So Warfield had just put off writing the article even though there was an invitation from Christakis, who was not the journal editor. Finally in 2003 while Warfield was writing an autobiographical article for George Klir's journal he decided he might as well go ahead and submit an autobiographical Systems Profile to Mike Jackson's journal. And Mike Jackson's journal accepted it, so both papers appeared about the same time. Although both are autobiographical, the two papers were planned as companions rather than duplicates of each other. In his article written for Klir Warfield named many colleagues. But his "System Profile: 1925 to Now" article submitted to Mike Jackson's Systems Research and Behavioral Science journal names no colleagues. Instead, in "System Profile: 1925 to Now" Warfield deals primarily with different experiences of his life leading to his culminating theories and practice of a new (although still unrecognized by general public) system of concise application of computer technology to human behavioral and psychological realities for the purpose of group problem solving in complex social and technical situations. After editorial review which requested minor editing changes and addition of a couple of references, the Warfield's publication-ready manuscript was mailed to Systems Research and Behavioral Science editors on 6 October 2003.
TOPICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF "SYSTEM PROFILE: 1925 TO NOW" are as follows:
The Great Depression. Poverty;
The Great Depression. Publicity;
Education and World War II;
Choosing a Major;
Learning to be a Soldier;
Returning to Campus;
Moving Right Along;
Faculty Positions (1952-1966)
Research experiences (1952-1966);
Research Institute in Ohio (1966-1974)
The nature of complexity as perceived by philosophers
Behavioral limitations of individuals and groups
Modeling of problematic situations stemming from complexity
Enhancing group activity when working on problematic situations
Principal Discoveries:
Cognitive Limits and Behavioral Pathologies,
Group Processes,
Belief Structures,
Spreadthink,
Group Learning,
Infrastructure,
The Coherent (Project-Sensitive Virtual Organization,
Faux Complexity
Metrics of Complexity
Extremely High Success Rate in Applications
The Following Years (1975-2003)
The Warfield Special Collection
Books
Slide Presentations
Papers
References
Table 1: Managing the Unmanageable.
In his Systems Profile Warfield directs his readers to seek out the companion article in George Klir's journal, and also tells reader how to find pictures of those who worked with him or influenced him in a number of ways. The actual pictures are on a web site run by School of Public Policy at George Mason University. The URL is https://schar.gmu.edu/sites/default/files/research/In-Memorium/Warfield_Exhibits.pdf also included another URL in this article, the one for the Warfield Special Collection archived at George Mason University's Fenwick Library https://scrc.gmu.edu/finding_aids/warfield.html.
