Lattice-based Portrayal of Friedman Example

A set of 11 pages of a lattice structure and a Delta Chart Warfield drew as a way to help people understand George Friedman’s Constraint Theory. The full title is "Lattice-based Portrayal of Friedman Example Beginning on Page 54 of Dissertation (Inclusion Structure) and "Delta Chart for Friedman's Constraint Theory Algorithm."

Sent to GMU 27 September 2007. The full title is "Lattice-based Portrayal of Friedman Example Beginning on Page 54 of Dissertation (Inclusion Structure) and "Delta Chart for Friedman's Constraint Theory Algorithm." This set of 11 pages of a lattice structure and a Delta chart was drawn by Warfield when he was trying to interest George Friedman in using lattice structure displays for his theory. George Friedman built Constraint Theory, which Warfield admired. But as Warfield says, "hardly anybody uses it, only one guy in Texas used it and he died" because it is so hard to understand. Warfield decided the reason it was so hard to understand was because people couldn't visualize it easily and he proposed to make it easier by using lattice theory. Lattice is very easy to understand. It is also easy to draw the lower parts of a lattice structure, although the upper levels are very hard. Warfield set out to draw a lattice of the Constraint Theory and he got the lower levels completed in these figures. However George was never much interested, so Warfield never wrote up the idea nor did he go on to finish the top part of the constraint theory lattice. Warfield commented that another reason people were not interested in using a lattice display was because such figures took up lots and lots of wall space and people don't like to use wall space. So Warfield did not continue with the project.




Additional Info

  • Category: Research History
  • Size: 105 p
  • Type: Sound recording
  • Description: Conference paper
  • Publication Year: 1995
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