An autobiographical piece. Discusses different life experiences and how they led him to develop theories and practices of a new (although still unrecognized by the general public) system of concise application of computer technology to human behavioral and psychological realities for the purpose of group problem solving in complex social and technical situations. See also, a companion piece entitled “Systems Movement: Autobiographical Retrospectives: Discovering Systems Science.”

Describes techniques which can be used to do effective planning, beginning with a statement of a problem and continuing to an organized description of what is to be done to solve it. The techniques are: Creating a Morphological Box, setting a Planning Horizon, using Activities and Objectives Trees, and finally constructing a Delta Chart to enable an understanding of the Activity Network. Warfield invented the Delta Chart while working at Battelle and this is likely the first time it appeared in print.  

This article contains one of the earliest mentions of Warfield's Options Field in a formal publication. Options Field/Options Profile methodology was used as part of the design work done for an environmental education project. .

Warfield Introduces the term "Collective Inquiry" to describe his view of how the process of environmental education should work, by use of shared knowledge combined with a computer-assisted group learning process called Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM).

Autobiographical piece that discusses Warfield’s own work as well the influences of Systems personalities he considered to be the most influential and admirable. See also, a companion piece entitled “Systems Profile: 1925 to Now."

This talk is listed in Warfield's vita. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Integrative Studies (A.I.S.), 6-8 November 1987, Penn State University, State College, PA.

A one-page abstract and outline, along with the transparencies used, for a talk at the Howard University joint NASA-Electrical Engineering Seminar, 28 February 1989. Folder also contains correspondence regarding the talk.

One of the first articles Warfield published. Provides an overview of the systems engineering, a new field at the time. Warfield considered this report an important step in his understanding of complexity and Systems Science. Written for Contract NORD7958, Bureau of Ordinance, U.S. Navy Department.

Unfinished document in which Warfield contends that there are important reasons to distrust what higher education has to offer with regard to (large changing) systems. He criticizes the rise of “pseudo-scientific” publications and individuals among higher education institutions. Particularly deplores the tendency to ignore great scholars including De Morgan, Boole, Cayley and Harary.

To view the full copyrighted abstract written in Warfield's own words please use http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5397232/#document-tabs. Presented at IEEE 6th Annual Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 6-8 October 1965.