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Selecting Participation Methodologies for Systems Design
After identifying nine specific functions which are entailed good group design work, Warfield presents a set of 31 key criteria, chosen to enhance these functions. The key criteria are displayed in a chart with the criteria divided into nine categories, which can assist in making good selections from the large number of methodologies that are being recommended for participative activity. Written for the Bombay-New Delhi IEEE conference, held in India 30 December 1983 – 7 January 1984. Warfield did not attend the conference.
Security Blankets, Chastity Belts, Moats, Maginot Lines, Iron Curtains and Academic Disciplines
Unfinished paper that critiques the discipline of Economics. Includes inked corrections.
The Scientific Proposal Preparation
Criteria for writing a scientific proposal and application of these criteria to Antonio Morales' "Project Distrievan" proposal, demonstrating how it could be improved.
Scientific Jepperdy (a Pop Quiz)
First used at a lecture on Complexity Management before the AAAS Fellows in 1997. This was a "pop Quiz" given the group at the beginning of the talk. It is a takeoff on the television quiz show "Jeopardy." It provides the reader significant details about eight important scientific figures, then asking "Who was he?”
Seven Milestones in the History of Thought, Paper
Text of a paper given at a conference. 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). For the transparencies used during the talk, see “Seven Milestones in the History of Thought, Cell Packet.” Presented at 19th Annual Conference of the Association for Integrative Studies, 23-26 October 1997, Broyhill Conference Center, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.
The Science of Generic Design: Foundations and Applications
This is simply a two-page summary of a lengthy talk during which Warfield showed a few transparencies on an overhead projector, and also handed out some printed transparencies of additional materials. The talk outline covers not only Warfield's own 30 minute presentation, (titled A Philosophy of Design) but an entire morning session which he coordinated, consisting of videos and talks by Roxana Cardenas, Scott Staley, & Lynn Sullivan. For further information on the talk, see “A Philosophy of Design.” For the transparencies used, see “Understanding Design Science.” Presented at the 1st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Design and Process Science, University of Texas, IC2 Center, Austin, Texas, 9 December 1995.
A Science of Generic Design: Old Floppies & backup tapes (1990 & 1994)
A Science of Generic Design [Draft May 1989]
This is the first single-spaced, one-volume version of the manuscript. It has minor content changes since the January 1989 version; it also has the figure pages included in the pagination, with consecutively numbered pages for the first time. This May version was followed by a revision which was completed in July 1989.
Demands Imposed on Systems Science by Complexity (Abstract only)
A preliminary proposal describing a paper which Warfield hoped to present at the conference of the UKSS. The proposal was accepted. See, “Demands Imposed on Systems Science by Complexity”
A Science of Generic Design, Reviews (1988-1989)
Miscellaneous collection of letters and comments from people who read pre-publication manuscripts of A Science of Generic Design. See also, “A Science of Generic Design Review by Anita Taylor.”