This is an Internet document which was published to the web, as an exhibit for a journal article. But the rest of the journal article was not published to the web. Unfortunately, in my 22 February 2014 search of GMU's Public Policy web page, I find that the web page address in the url field above is no longer active, GMU's Public Policy no longer displays the web page containing this Complexicon table, School of Public Policy has taken Warfield's Exhibit of the Complexicon Table off the air. R.w. 28 March 2013.

The PowerPoint slides are separate from the Complexicon Table; they are stored on a Compact Disk available at Fenwick Library at George Mason University in Box 96, Folder 4 of Warfield Special Collection. The compact disk is titled MANAGING THE UNMANAGEABLE POWERPOINT SLIDE COLLECTION SEPTEMBER 10, 2007. While the slides are only on the Compact Disk, the table is only on the web page at School of Public Policy, George Mason University. You have to fish out both the disk and the web page document and combine them in a study of the Warfield ouvre. It is the damnedest thing. But it is the best that poor Warfield could do. The publisher for the journal article would not put in the table, or was it the graphic, or was it the slides, oh heck I wrote this all up somewhere where it could apply logically and it is still there linked to one or another of the components.  But anyway, we still have the entire set of slides and the Table securely on Rose's home computer.  

This is the descriptive note on the compact disk label: MANAGING THE UNMANAGEABLE POWERPOINT SLIDE COLLECTION SEPTEMBER 10, 2007  "This compact disk of PowerPoint slides should be used in combination with a 2003 document titled Managing the Unmanageable PowerPoint Slide Presentations a Table, or list, which was published to the web, and can be downloaded from http://policy.gmu.edu/res/jwarfield/EXHIBIT12.pdf.  In the Complexicon Table, 45 of Warfield’s PowerPoint files have been assigned to one or more of these 13 categories: 1) THOUGHT LEADERS 2) QUALITY CONTROL 3) MATHEMATICS OF STRUCTURE 4) BEHAVIORAL PATHOLOGIES 5) MODELING 6) METRICS OF COMPLEXITY 7) PROCESS LEADERSHIP 8) INFRASTRUCTURE 9) EVIDENCE 10) HISTORY 11) ORGANIZATIONS 12) SCIENCE 13) COMPLEXICON These 13 categories correspond to a diagram (Figure A3-4 Organizing the Complexicon) printed on Page 317 of Warfield’s book An Introduction to Systems Science. The 13 categories are suitable for a college syllabus plan or for a set of lectures. Each of the 13 categories has a subset of PowerPoint slides listed by number, showing which of the slide shows goes with which of the categories, for use as a research and study tool, or for teaching a Systems Science Class in a university, the goal which Warfield hoped his book might encounter.

DESCRIPTIVE NOTE FOR THE COMPLEXICON TABLE:  Designed for use by prospective teachers who might wish to use PowerPoint for teaching classes, the Managing the Unmanageable Table is an overview, or menu page, in which the titles of PowerPoint slide shows are listed by category, each category representing a dimension of John Warfield's intellectual work. The Table shows 13 categories in all. Some of the slide presentations are listed in more than one category. For example, Presentation No. 90 (Photographs--Book Publishing Sequence) can be found in the "Organizations" category and also in the "Complexicon" category. One of the more significant titles in the Table is Slide Presentation No. MTU1000 (Seven-Level Structure with Notes). MTU1000 is a flow chart of connected boxes depicting Warfield's complexity research in a simple overview culminating in a box at the top of the structure which has the caption THE COMPLEXICON. In the flow-chart, each box has a category name taken from the Managing the Unmanageable Table. Each box also contains numbers which correspond to PowerPoint slide show numbers most suitable for its named category. (see version 2, MTU1001) The combined use of the Table with Presentation Number MTU1000 provides for prospective teachers an entire lecture course with slide show and lecture materials. The teaching of a complete System Science curriculum is displayed in outline in this single Table, with numerical keys as to where to find the slides. The PowerPoint slides have been donated by Warfield to Fenwick Library at George Mason University. They are on a CD in Box Number 96, Folder 4 of Warfield Special Collection. One regrettable afterword. -Presentation Number MTU1000 was originally titled "Complexicon." But nowadays Presentation Number MTU1000 is titled "Seven-Level Structure with Notes."

The term Complexicon was a word which Warfield hoped to use as a representation of the field of Systems Science and its tools for dealing with complexity. He does not remember hearing or seeing it before he applied the word to his own work and first published the word Complexicon in his 2003 paper, and again in his 2006 book An Introduction to Systems Science. He does not remember when he first thought of the word, or used it in conversation. He has no written record of using it before he began writing the manuscripts for the 2003 paper and 2006 book. But in the year 2008, after John's book was published, and the new Google search engine was becoming well known, Rose did find the word "complexicon" on the web. Apparently the term "complexicon" had been used one time by some other writer, in England, in 1998. Warfield was traveling in England in 1996, and could have used the word in lectures, but that means nothing. By the year 2008 Google search tells us that the word complexicon was being used in dozens of places, none anywhere with the meaning which Warfield intended to formulate for "Complexicon" with his 2006 book. Since that discovery John abandoned use of the word complexicon. He merely calls his life work, "this work" and lets it go at that. (R.W. circa 2008)

Warfield designed his Complexicon Table using WordPerfect. He planned the WordPerfect Table as a companion to a PowerPoint Figure titled “The Complexicon: Transforming Complexity into Understanding.” He wanted the Figure and the Table to be printed together in his article “Autobiographical Retrospectives, Discovering Systems Science” written for the December 2003 issue of General Systems of which George Klir was editor. The Complexicon Table was so large that it was unprintable in the journal article for which it was intended. It was so large the publisher couldn’t fit it on the journal page and still make it readable. Warfield and George Klir worked out a system whereby a footnote in Klir’s journal could refer to a web address where the reader could view the Table. Thus it resulted that the Complexicon Table was published only as an internet document, as a LINK, to a footnote in the printed journal article. The Table was never actually printed in Klir’s journal. It appeared only on the web. Three years later Warfield's article "Discovering Systems Science' was reprinted as an appendix in his 2006 book, but here again the Complexicon Table was not printed, but was LINKED to a footnote in Appendix 3 of the book. Warfield always called the table “The Complexicon” because it was to be used with his Complexicon PowerPoint figure. But Complexicon is not the title of this table. The title which Warfield put on the WordPerfect Table is: MANAGING THE UNMANAGEABLE, POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS, JULY 19, 2003. When published to the web, the title of Warfield’s Table was shortened to EXHIBIT 12: MANAGING THE UNMANAGEABLE. The Table can be seen at this web address: http://policy.gmu.edu/res/jwarfield/EXHIBIT12.PDF Unfortunately the Table was so large that it could not be fitted on one internet PDF page, so when viewed on the web, the reader must look at a TWO-PAGE document, not a one-page Table. But all of the 45 slide titles are there, on the web, if one scrolls down to the second pdf page.  The Complexicon Table was intended to be used with the Complexicon Figure, which was printed as Figure 4 on Page 561 of Intn'l Journal of General Systems 32(6) or Figure A3-4 on Page 317 of Warfield's 2006 book An Introduction to Systems Science.

Unfortunately, a printing error occurred in Warfield’s 2006 book. Complexicon Figure A3-4 on page 317 was a misprint, lacking those 53 significant small-font numbers which are the guides to corresponding PowerPoint slides in the Complexicon Table. Warfield failed to catch the error in publisher's galley proofs, and did not learn of it until after the book was published, too late to do anything about it. However readers can view a correct Figure A3-4, complete with the 53 small-font numbers, if they use Warfield's PowerPoint slide collection. Figure A3-4 from the book is supposed to look like the PowerPoint file "MTU1001ComplexiconWithText (1)" available on compact disk from Warfield Special Collection, George Mason University, in Box 96 Folder 4.

POST NOTE: Warfield abandoned the use of the word Complexicon in 2007. Although he believed he had coined it himself in 2003, he found that the term had been used earlier by other authors. He then declared, "I am going to invent a word that no one will think of, and even if they think of it is so ugly they wouldn’t want to use it.” Thus it happened that the word “Logilectic” appears throughout the text of Warfield’s last book (a manuscript yet unpublished in 2017). And he titled this last book “Generic Systems Science: Logilectic in Action.” He never used "Complexicon" again. R.W. 12 March 2012. [See also the Access record ID 1146 Complexicon Explained by Rose ]

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