Early title of a book that would become Understanding Complexity: Thought and Behavior.

Introduction of the 17 “Laws of Complexity.” Warfield asserts that their use, in connection with "computer-assisted relational thinking to construct relationships among factors involved in complex issues" will furnish the necessary information to enable quality control to be applied to description, diagnosis, prescription and implementation of complex issues. Includes Appendix with descriptions and details on each of the Laws of Complexity. Fundamentals of this paper were presented in a talk at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Integrative Studies, held in Detroit, Michigan, 8 October 1993. See, “Criteria for Structural Thinking.”

Reprint of paper with same title that was published with errors. The paper describes the Interactive Management process as a powerful approach to in-depth learning about a complex situation, which then provides a well-supported foundation for an organized attack to bring a complex situation under control. Scott Staley's contribution of data and experiences in the Ford Motor Company Workshops are used as empirical examples of the use of the Interactive Management methodologies. For the original version, see “Structural Thinking: Organizing Complexity Through Disciplined Activity.”

This paper describes the Interactive Management process as a powerful approach to in-depth learning about a complex situation, which then provides a well-supported foundation for an organized attack to bring a complex situation under control. Scott Staley's contribution of data and experiences in the Ford Motor Company Workshops are used as empirical examples of the use of the Interactive Management methodologies. The published paper had misprints, so Warfield redid the paper. See, “Structural Thinking: Organizing Complexity Through Disciplined Activity: Reprint.”

The Course Announcement for a one-week course presented for The Institute of Public Policy and the Computer Aided Logistics Shared Resource Center Network, George Mason University, 6-10 June 1994 taught by Warfield and Roxana Cardenas.

A proposal for a one-week course presented at the Bell Northern Research Laboratories, Ottawa, Canada, 22-26 November 1993 to be taught in collaboration with Roxana Cardenas.

A three-day course presented for the graduate students in The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, 9-11 January 1995. The manual Complexity and Drummers was used as reading material for this course.

Suggestions for improving the quality of computer language design, by use of complexity-reducing techniques, augmented by graphic representations of the languages. See notes field for more detailed abstract. Presented at 17th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, 24-27 March 1985, Auburn, Alabama.

For further information please find S9.0 (1985) Warfield, John N. Structural Analysis of a Computer Language  when using the link http://www.gmu.edu/depts/t-iasis/biblio/biw40.htm.

Printed in Japanese, in Proceedings volume of a Conference in Kyoto, Japan in 1988. Contains five of Warfield's Figures copied from earlier papers titled "Structural Analysis of a Computer Language" and "A Complexity Metric for High Level Software Language.”

A final report to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) that reviews and summarizes results and recommendations from two January 1997 workshops held in Accra for CSIR. Based on the workshop findings Warfield makes a series of recommendations to the Council about possible future uses of Interactive Management in Ghana.