The document is huge, 75 pages, but with only two to 4 pages of Warfield's actual writing, as explained below. The "Properties" window for this document tells me that Warfield wrote it on Saturday, 16 Jan 1999 2:20:46AM. I think it is a thought piece paper which Warfield composed while wrestling with how to complete his book “A Work Program of Complexity.” In October 1999, seven or eight months after he wrote this 16 January 1999 document, Warfield did finish his book manuscript. The title of the book was changed to Understanding Complexity before it was finally published in 2002. The 2002 published version was not appreciably changed from his October 1999 book manuscript. Warfield during the 1990's had been trying to develop that book but just didn't seem satisfied with it until one day when he said he had made a breakthrough in his thinking, deciding that his first approach to the topic was all wrong. He said he would have to change the entire thing; that he had to start over, so to speak, to get it right. I don't know which draft of his “Work Program of Complexity” reflects his change of focus, but I am sure that his October 1999 manuscript was the end result.

This document "A Science of Complexity: What Criteria Should it Meet?" is definitely just a working paper. It seems to me Warfield might have assembled notes on ALL of his previous writings to use as source material for a revised version of “Work Program of Complexity” book manuscript. On Page 1 & 2 he has written an introduction and on pages 3,4,5 typed a list of his previous papers and books. Then on Pages 6 to 75 is a printout of the data from my Biblwin database software, in which I had listed and described his writings. There are short versions of "A Science of Complexity: What Criteria Should it Meet?" in his old computer files, in a folder titled simply "Manuscripts.". I found filenames, such as man201.wpd which held pages 1-5 only without BIBLWIN data notes, but I have saved this long 75 page version. It makes an interesting study piece because it defines the works which Warfield himself considered useful. We have on pages 1 - 5 a very nice list of titles of everything Warfield wrote which he himself regarded as relevant to his thinking on complexity. "A Science of Complexity: What Criteria Should it Meet?" had been left out of Warfield's last listings of his papers. He might have moved the first 2 pages into some other document he was trying to finish. Nevertheless, as he composed this particular paper, in January 1999, it makes a fine bibliography and I plan to keep it as that, as one of the informal bibliographic lists composed by Warfield during his writing career. (NEEDING AN AWFUL LOT OF EDITING, NO DOUBT) R.w. 8 October 2012