Argues that in order to develop useful engineering designs it is necessary to create “qualitative formalisms" using human interaction with the assistance of Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM).

A description of Carol Jeffrey’s work in Liberia. At the conference, Warfield also passed out copies of Jeffrey’s IM Report “Disarmament and Demobilization.” Presented at the 17 April 1999 meeting of the Panetics Society, Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C.

Folder contains course ISM Course Outline and rough manuscript notes. Presented at IEEE-SMC International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, Systems Man and Cybernetics Society, Hyatt-Regency Cambridge Hotel, Boston, MA, 7-9 October 1980. See also, "A Role for Values in Educational System Design," presented at the same conference.

The title “Ship of State” (encompasses the 55 pages), has been changed several times as the book has progressed. In 1996, the “Work Program of Complexity” incorporated all, or most of, “Ship of State.” See also, "Designing the Development of Regulatory Science."

A translation into Chinese of John N. Warfield, Societal Systems: Planning, Policy and Complexity (New York: Wiley, 1976). Translated by Bi Jian Guo, Ping Guo, Huai Zhu Xie, Chuan Yiu Wang and Li Da Xu. The translation was edited by Yin Yuan and Xue Ming Huang.

Discussion of why simple prose is insufficient when studying complexity. Presentation covers topics including the Domain of Science Model, Structural Fields, Structural Profiles, Friedman's Constraint Theory, Total Inclusion Structure, Delta Chart, Partition Structure, Arrow Bullet Diagrams, Options Fields and Options Profiles. Presented for the George Washington University Notational Engineering Laboratory Seminar held 28 February 1996

Transparencies to accompany “Complexity Lecture No. 5.” Dr. John N. Warfield discusses the history and evolution of human thought, focusing on seven “milestones” or significant developments. Part of a series of 12 lectures on complexity given at the Johnson Center, George Mason University. Second of three lectures on topic of Philosophy.

Transparencies to accompany “Seven Milestones in the History of Thought, Paper.” It is a discussion of seven milestones, or significant contributions, to archival knowledge relevant to the representation of products of human thought, as distinguished from the biological activity involved in thinking. See notes field for a list of the transparencies used. Presented at 19th Annual Conference of the Association for Integrative Studies, 23-26 October 1997, Broyhill Conference Center, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.

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Written to be part of a Festschrift volume to be published in honor of Charles Francois. Identifies and discusses seven challenges for system scholars and practitioners. Provides suggestions for overcoming them. Warfield later wrote a revised version titled “A Challenge for Systems Engineers: To Evolve Toward Systems Science, part 1 and part 2.

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This guide was written as a final report for a teaching/research contract sponsored by Defense Systems Management College. The report follows on Warfield’s time teaching classes to DSMC faculty and staff and assisting in planning and conducting Interactive Management workshops. It is prepared to help the reader develop a self-study program regarding complexity, system design, Interactive Management, or some combination of these three.