Written by Prof. Benjamin J. Broome, this is a book review of the first edition of Warfield's Generic Design book, a two-volume soft-cover version published in 1990 by Intersystems.

Transparencies to accompany “Complexity Lecture No. 4.” Part of a series of 12 lectures on complexity given at the Johnson Center, George Mason University during 1998 Fall semester at George Mason University. It was the first of three lectures on the topic of HIGHER EDUCATION.   Click here for a video of this lecture.

One of the earliest presentations of the `Domain of Science' graphical design. Warfield displayed a transparency of his earlier DOS figure titled " A Model for a Domain of Science,” and proposed the use of a Domain of Science model as a means of judging the merit and validity of laws, stating that “laws are legitimized by their relevance in applications.” Presented at Annual Meeting of American Society for Cybernetics, Virginia Beach, VA, 19-23 February 1986.

Discussion of the Killer Assumptions. Article includes short annotated bibliography which provides brief summaries of works by 17 other authors as well as 10 of his own. The document finishes with a reprint of the "Example IM Workshop Plan."

Email that identifies and discusses the two current, literature-based schools of thought about complexity. Finds that the two schools are alike in some respects. Both schools are connected to mathematical formalisms, though the visibility of these formalisms varies significantly in the literature of these Schools. Both schools perceive complexity within the context of the "observer-system" idea. In this idea, an observer, determined to study a "system," is actively engaged in doing so. The distinction between the two schools is in where they perceive complexity to be located.

An overview of the study of "a developing Science of Complexity" is followed by full descriptions of the Twenty Laws in a 30-page Appendix titled "Briefs of the Laws of Complexity." Each Law is presented with a descriptive "Brief" which is followed by an Interpretation of the Law. 

Each Law is presented in a "Brief" which contains the title, its origins, references (if any), statement of the law and its interpretation.

Transparencies and other materials to accompany “Complexity Lecture No. 2.” The topics covered are Twenty laws of Complexity, Three Categories of the Laws, and Five Indices of Complexity, with values determined from applications. Part of a series of 12 lectures on complexity given at the Johnson Center, George Mason University. First of three lectures on topic of Science. This lecture was not videotaped.

Identification and discussion of twelve laws incorporated in the Science of Generic Design. They are the Laws of: Gradation, Universal Priors, Inherent Conflict, Limits, Validation, Success and Failure, Requisite Saliency, Requisite Variety, Triadic Compatibility, Structural Underconceptualization, Requisite Parsimony, and Uncorrelated Extremes. Also with the manuscript in the file folder is "Table 1, Overview of Origins and Significance of 12 laws of Generic Design, February 1990." which presents some of the talk in matrix format Warfield probably used it as a handout, or an overhead transparency. See "Twelve Laws of Design Science (transparencies)." Presented at Fourth International Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Systems, ITESM (San Luis Potosi), San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 3-6 April 1990. Elements from this paper were later incorporated into a longer paper titled "Generic Planning: Research Results and Applications."

Draft manuscript entitled “Science in Threes and Fours: Complexity in Perspective” along with handwritten notes.