Likely part of an intended book manuscript. Discusses Warfield’s economic research and the ways in which Interpretive Structural Modeling could assist international organizations operate more effectively. See also, “Principal Subsystems (Dimensions) and Legacy Organizational Structures.”

Collection of materials for a paper Warfield planned to write to discuss the next stage beyond Interactive Management, a stage of management which he had termed Work Program of Complexity. Includes a comparison between Interactive Management and the Work Program of Complexity, an outline of Warfield’s 3 February 2004 Presentation “The Work Program of Complexity,” and a description of 14 tangible and 5 intangible results a corporation could expect from using Warfield’s Work Program of Complexity when trying to manage a difficult situation.

Warfield's final book was left as a full draft manuscript. It is now being edited and prepared for publication.

This book is in some ways a summary and refinement of his life's studies, whittling out topics and ideas that he felt were no longer essential and restating ideas he felt to be basic for future establishment of Systems Science as a verifiable academic discipline.

Warfield had begun to support only two primary methodologies: NGT (Nominal Group Technique) and ISM (Interpretive Structural Modeling), relegating others as redundant or subsidiary.

Written in layman’s terms, this book is an effort to establish an understanding of the new field of Systems Science including its foundations in the thinking of earliest philosophers, identification of some modern day practitioners and a description of the processes and working environment needed for its application.

To engage with those new to the field, it avoids large, complex graphics and mathematics, and is meant to lead the reader to more detailed works.

Discussion of the concept of "due process" in design as a way to identify and monitor responsible management practices, which would lower the rate of catastrophic design failures. Warfield calls for the creation of a basic design science, with standards and practices for large-scale system designers that could become well-defined and legally enforceable over time. Prepared for ASME Conference, Boston, MA, 17-20 August 1987. See "Dual-Basis Design (Transparencies)" for the transparencies developed to accompany talk. Later printed in Polish. See "Dwie Podstawy Projektowania (Dual-Basis Design)."

Information from Dr. Scott Staley's work at Ford Motor Company is used to describe a real-life application of an Information System Design. The paper is a Ford Motor Company Case Study which shows the design foundation of the C3P system. To view the full copyrighted abstract please use this link.

Discussion of a model exchange strategy in the domain of complexity. The abstract states that the “overall effectiveness must take into account factors that are not well-treated exclusively by matrix models. Some of the other types that (also) have limited but valuable utility include: algebraic models, prose models, various ill-defined graphical models (often understood only by very small practitioner sets) and prose-graphic structural models.” Originally presented 28 September 1999 at the MIT Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Workshop, Presentation, Sloan School, Cambridge, MA. See also,"MIT Design Structure Matrix Workshop Program."

This paper illustrates how self-interaction and cross-interaction matrices can be used to portray interactions among several sets that can be important in program planning. It is a precursor to the development of interpretive structural modeling, in that the unwieldiness of the matrices, the need for directionality in relations, the need for computer assistance in keeping track of the information, and the need for a more easily read graphical portrayal all became apparent in working with the various planning matrices.

This book explains a new science Warfield developed between 1970 and 2000. His Interactive Management system is the action branch of systems science, which springs from the foundations of a scientific theory outlined in this book.

The book began as a set of lectures, classroom handouts, seminars and small monographs organized in 1995 into a manuscript titled “Work Program of Complexity.”

In 1998, after an extensive revision with much new material added, Warfield changed the title to “A Structure Based Science of Complexity.” After a few more modifications until June 2001 he finalized the title as Understanding Complexity: Thought and Behavior.

This paper addresses the need for a change in how people work with complexity. This change is described as "Framebreaking and Remodeling." The term "Underconceptualization" is used to capture the essence of what is wrong in design, development and operation of large-scale systems. Presented at the Conference on Mutual Uses of Cybernetics & Science, University of Amsterdam, 27-31 March 1989. This conference paper submitted in 1989 is free of typo errors seen in 1991 published article.