This version is considerably different from Warfield's "Twenty Laws Complexity" of 1997.  The 1999 paper was written with new material in response to a request from a Systems Research Journal referee, who wanted to see a new  "typology" in the journal, and use it as a reference point for future articles by other authors. The first part of "Twenty Laws, 1999" bulges with figures and tables and features a "taxonomy," or framework with the following named subdivisions: 

           Alternative Science-Free Organizational Practices

          Educational Practices Appropriate to Complexity

          Quality Control of Science

          Applications of the Science of Complexity in Organizations

          Enabling Conditions for Effective Organizational Practice

LIST OF FIGURES & TABLES

Table 1.  SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT ABOUT COMPLEXITY

Table 2.  PRACTITIONER ORGANIZATIONS

Table 3.  CATEGORIES OF THE LAWS OF COMPLEXITY

Figure 1.  THE CURRICULUM OF COMPLEXITY

Figure 2.  CHRONOLOGY: SEVEN MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT

Figure 3.  MILESTONES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIORAL PATHOLOGIES

Figure 4.  FIVE INDEXES OF COMPLEXITY

Figure 5.  THE WORK PROGRAM OF COMPLEXITY

Figure 6.  BEHAVIOR--OUTCOMES MATRIX

Figure 7.  INTERACTIONS IN INTERPRETING LAWS OF COMPLEXITY.

 The Twenty Laws, enlarged with "Briefs" fill the second half of the paper as an Appendix which is essentially a culmination of Warfield's earlier articles "Generic Design Science: Laws…" (1991), "17 Laws of Complexity" (1993) and "Twenty Laws of Complexity" (1997)”.  

This paper's history as a PERGAMON PRESS property results in an overlong but correct DOI link for those wishing to read the abstract or purchase full text; please cut and paste: <Doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1743(199901/02)16:1<3::AID-SRES241>3.0.CO;2-F>

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