Argues that it is time to reconsider what constitutes a science and how to detect and prevent bad sciences from becoming a force in the misallocation of public and private funds. Introduces concept of “Universal Priors” to the definition of science, leading to the assertion that a basic reorganization of all human knowledge and thinking is both desirable and inevitable. Concludes with an outline of that reorganization, which is called "DOMAIN OF SCIENCE."

A manual for systems engineers. Contains information on design of tree structures, interaction planning and management, problem definition, value system, analysis and optimizations, etc. Includes a description of the Warfield/Hill 'DELTA Chart" a more efficient type of flow chart than was currently in use. Written before ISM was put into use.

This was written for a second edition of the Guide to the John N. Warfield Collection, but was never used because it directed reader toward two appendices which in the end were not printed in the GUIDE.

This is a four-page introduction followed by 51 transparencies Warfield took to a talk titled "The Science of Generic Design: Foundations and Applications", a plenary session presentation at the First Annual Meeting of the International Society for Design and Process Science, University of Texas, IC2 Center, Austin, Texas, 9 December 1995. See also, "A Philosophy of Design December 1995" which is a handout from the same talk.

Description of the terminology and uses of a DELTA chart. DELTA is an acronym for the words “Decision,” “Event,” “Logic,” “Time” and “Activity.” The paper is an upgrade of an earlier paper by Warfield & Hill titled “The DELTA chart: A Method for R&D Project Portrayal.” See also, pack Transparencies for “Understanding DELTA Charts” which contains enlarged page-size figures of the eleven illustrations used in this manuscript.

An early draft of what would become Understanding Complexity, 2002.

This is the book Understanding Complexity, 2002 in a PDF File. The digitized book manuscript has an extra blank page (p. 217) which shouldn’t be there, thus causing the index to be inaccurate in some parts of the book.

Describes a unique methodology for coping with complexity - Interpretive Structural Modeling - which, with its efficient and rapid organization of knowledge, can become the basis for dramatic social gains. The book contains all of the theoretical and mathematical back-ground for the ISM process and it remains in use as the major source for persons wishing to develop software for Interpretive Structural Modeling. This is a soft-cover reprint of Societal Systems: Planning, Policy and Complexity (1976).

Printouts of a slide lecture that proposes a definition and a measurement system for the true nature of complexity. Discusses the ideas of Friedman, Aristotle, Harary, De Morgan, Miller, Delbecq as precursors to Warfield's system of complexity metrics. Warfield's "Interactive Management" is proposed as the tool for determining the complexity of a situation. PowerPoint slides used in a classroom lecture at the University of Hull, England, as part of a summer school session provided by the University's Business School to students from ITESM, in Mexico, 2-6 July 2001.

This is the earliest known version of a paper prepared by Warfield for the NSF Project. See “User’s Guide to Systems Methodology,” “Understanding Delta Charts” and “Understanding Delta Charts: Transparencies.”