Contends that higher education has been too focused on developing individuals with a talent for critical thinking, i.e., analysis and has ignored the opposite component of the paired human learning trait; i.e., synthesis or design. Urges a more balanced approach.

To view the full copyrighted abstract written in Warfield's own words please use https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262234219_The_Asymmetric_Learning_Trait.

A graphic flow chart displaying the 13 categories as an interrelated seven-level structure. It is intended to represent the field of Systems Science and its tools for dealing with complexity. For further details, see “The Complexicon: Transforming Complexity into Understanding (A Seven-Level Structure with Notes)” and “Managing the Unmanageable PowerPoint Presentations.”

John Warfield's "Complexicon" is a seven-level flow chart with captions for each box in the flow-chart. There are thirteen flow chart boxes in the drawing, intended to represent the field of Systems Science and its tools for dealing with complexity.  Each box in the Complexicon flow chart contains a set of Numbers. Each number represents a slide show lecture available to the viewer from  Warfield's "Complexicon Table" in the online file named: "Managing the Unmanageable PowerPoint Presentations.” 

The flow chart and the numbered slide shows when used together in a class room or lecture can  be used to provide a one page overview of Warfield's research on complexity. The Complexicon is workable as an outline for a course on Systems Science or even for an entire curriculum.

A collection of 86 PowerPoint slide presentations Warfield assembled in 2007. It includes the 14 slide shows in a previous PowerPoint series titled MTU2000, but in some cases the older slides have been updated, or rewritten and won't be exactly the same. See also, “MTU2000, the Video Lectures.” 

This section discusses findings from behavioral research and suggests two methods from systems science that work around common behavioral pathologies that often frustrate efforts to resolve complexity. For part 1, see "A Challenge for Systems Engineers: To Evolve Toward Systems Science: Part 1."

For further information please use https://mafiadoc.com/systems-science_59b8017d1723ddd8c6ad54ef.html.

Describes seven challenges for information system designers. Similar to earlier paper entitled "Seven Challenges." The challenges named by Warfield are Second-order Thought, Behavioral Pathologies, Discursivity, Quality-control Principles, Metrics of Complexity, Physical Infrastructure,  and Synergy. 

To view full copyrighted abstract written in Warfield's own words please use https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290317458_Seven_challenges_for_information_system_designers.

Although there are differences in the introduction, abstract and references, the main body of "Seven Challenges for Information System Designers" is identical to the earlier article titled "Seven Challenges." The "Seven Challenges" article began as a Festschrift paper in honor of Warfield's Argentine friend Charles Francois, which Warfield wrote in November 2002. But the Festschrift editors did not use the Seven Challenges paper, publishing instead a short 2-page memorial written earlier by Warfield. In 2006 Prof. Li Da Xu Xu wanted very much for Warfield to attend systems conferences in China and present a paper. Dr. Xu's conferences involved a new topic Enterprise Information Systems. Warfield decided against another China trip, but he did send Prof Xu a revised version of his Seven Challenges paper designed to appeal to a different audience. In 2008 the paper was published with other papers from the conference, in a volume edited by Prof. Xu. Titled Frontiers in Enterprise Integration: International Forum of Information Systems Frontiers-Xian International Symposium (IFISF), Xian, June 29-20, 2006, China, and IFIP TC 8.9 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2007), Beijing, China, October 14-16.

On 3 Sept 2008, Warfield sent a digitized version of this paper on a CD with other documents, as a donation to George Mason University Special Collections & Archives.

Paper copy of the publisher’s offprint is in Box 99/14, C0016, SCRC, George Mason University Libraries. There is also a pre-publication version of the full text of this paper, available by download from the Warfield Catalog by clicking on VIEW PDF button above.

Proposal for a new approach to the teaching of science, especially systems science, in the nation’s colleges. If put into practice it would have disrupted much of the traditional teaching patterns in higher education. Warfield terms this new program “The Horizons College” and would be based in the concept of science developed by Aristotle and updated by Charles Sanders Peirce. Includes a twelve-point framework outline of the program. See also, “Wandwaver Solution.”

A list of Warfield’s publications between 2003 and 2008 he prepared for friends and colleagues.

A list of papers (and a few books) published or written between the years 1959-1993, with the majority of the papers dated after 1970. See notes field for description and history of the “IASIS File.”

A follow-up note to efforts to try and develop market software for McIntosh/Apple.