A one-week short course was held during the week of May 18-22, 1998, under the auspices of The Institute of Public Policy. The title of the course was THE DEMANDS OF COMPLEXITY MEET THE KILLER ASSUMPTIONS. The course was held in the Johnson Center, Room 311. It met daily from 9 to 4 PM, except on Friday, when it closed at 1:15 PM.The report gives lists of attendees and curriculum materials, and brief summaries of each day's events: Attendees with their email addresses are listed in filename ROSTER for 1998: Ricardo Rodriguez Ulloa, Stuart A. Umpleby, Lianchao Han, Roxana Cardenas, Henry Alberts, Clay Wilson III, Aleta R. Wilson, Qu Duan, Theresa Kurtz, and Kevin M. C. Dye. (5 OF THESE ATTENDEES WERE STUDENTS TAKING THE COURSE as Public Policy Seminar 850 FOR GMU CREDIT) What follows is an exact list of materials used, either as handouts to the class, or as references provided for their study: ARTICLES, MANUSCRIPTS, BOOKS Condensed Patterns Relevant to the Science of Complexity (Structure-Based School), Generic Design Science, Interactive Management. Demands of Complexity Meet the Killer Assumptions (14 page work-in-progress manuscript, filename 2DemandsMeetAssumptions.wpd) The Magical Number Three, Plus or Minus Zero (Journal article Syst. Research v19,1988, 339-358.) Organizing Complexity from the Bottom Up (19 page manuscript, revision January 7, 1998, Filename: HistoryofCateg.wpd) Researchers on Complexity Ponder What It's All About (Newspaper clipping N.Y.Times 5–6-1997 C1,C2) Thought Leaders in the Study of Complexity (10 page manuscript, filename hiw020.wpd or thoughtleaders) Twenty Laws of Complexity: Science Applicable in Organizations (Journal article to appear in Systems Research) filename: WIP\MP126TOTALSingleSpacedRegularPaper.wpd or also just TwentyLaws) The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus, by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge, (Random House Times Business Books, 1996-1997). TRANSPARENCIES OR PRESENTATION PAGES Categories Field: Essays on Complexity shows how 21 essays on complexity…(1 p. cow131 or ESSAYSCATS) Conclusions Summary from The Witch Doctors (1 p., witchdoctorsum or cow128.wpd) Demands of Complexity Meet the Behavioral Pathologies (2 p.demandsmeetbehavior) Five Schools of Thought About Complexity (1p. Cow069) Level 1 Categories of Complexity: Counting the Cells in the Study of Complexity (1p.CELLcatsLevel1.wpd) 10 Level 1 Categories in the Study of Complexity and Their Level 2 Subcategories (3-p. CELLcatsLevel2.wpd) Recognizing a Killer Assumption Seven Attributess (1p. RecognizingKillers) Structure-based School Research Findings (1p. Texas #29) Syllabus for the Short Course (2 page manuscript, filename syllabus was on the IASIS WebPage as 98c2.htm Table of Contents (1 page, serving as basic course outline, TableofContents.wpd) PRINTED CELL PACKET: Printouts of transparencies for the Seminar in a booklet having the title “The Demands of Complexity Meet…” (8p., Filename cells.wpd) each of the pages in this cell packet also has its own SEPARATE filename to identify it, as follows: 1. Four Ways to Organize Complexity (cow130.wpd) 2. Constructing Categories for Complexity from over 500 Transparencies: 10 Categories (cow132.wpd) 3. The Four Areas of Complexity (cow104.wpd) 4. Categories of 20 Laws of Complexity (cow133.wpd) 5. Recognizing a Killer Assumption: Seven Attributes (cow129.wpd or Recognizing Killers.wpd) 6. Organizing Complexity from the Bottom Up: The Hierarchical Pattern (Cow105.wpd) 7. Field of Possibilities for Considering Complexity in Organizations (cow116.wpd, REVISED 3/1/98) 8. Constructing Categories for Complexity from 21 Essays on Complexity(cow135.wpd)