Published on compact disk, this 3rd edition of A Science of Generic Design from AJAR Publishers is a reproduction of the hard cover 1994 Second Edition issued by Iowa State University Press which is out of print. The compact disk contains the text of the 1994 2nd edition, with a new outside cover design an updated verso page, two revised title pages listing Ajar Publishing Company, and a last page containing John Warfield's most recent biography and photograph. 

Representing Warfield's work and research over the previous two decades, this book is a study of the basic structure of human knowledge and how it can best be utilized to resolve complexity by the use of newly developed methodologies.

Representing Warfield's work and research over the previous two decades, this book is a study of the basic structure of human knowledge and how it can best be utilized to resolve complexity by the use of newly developed methodologies. 

The First Edition of this book was published in two soft cover volumes in 1990. This was superseded in 1994 by a hard-cover edition from a different publisher as A Science of Generic Design: Managing Complexity Through Systems Design, 2nd Edition (1994). 

A guide to understanding Warfield’s computer files related to A Science of Generic Design.

The folder holds correspondence and other items, beginning with a 1985 outline for two book chapters which Warfield had sent as a memo to David Keever and Alexander Christakis, with whom he originally planned to write the book.

This draft copy of A Science of Generic Design is composed of the first four chapters of the book. Also includes a preface and a table of contents for all 10 of the proposed chapters as well as the proposed appendices and indexes, with each chapter followed by numerous sub-divisional titles.

Draft of A Science of Generic Design sent the George Mason University Press in 1989.

A set of transparencies for a presentation that discussed the Science of Complexity and Interactive Management. See also, “Vertical INCOHERENCE in Three-Level Organizations.” Presented at Ford Motor Company Ltd., Enterprise Process Reengineering Europe, Aveley, Essex, U.K. 7 July 1999.

Given 17-19 August 1998, this second in a series of four courses offered for the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI, July-October, 1998. Contain the course outline with lists of reading and reference materials. Also included is a list with descriptive notes of 24 men described as Thought Leaders in the development of the science of complexity.

Briefly describes the early development of Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)