Excerpts from previously published articles used as classroom handouts.

A presentation packet of transparencies and/or handout pages on the Options Field/Options Profile

Method for use in classes or lectures. See notes field for list of other writings on this subject.

A technical and mathematical description of the Options Field method. Includes figures and graph examples. The “Quad” concept is introduced and explored. Used for classes taught at University of Virginia and George Mason University.

No information, the paper is at Fenwick Library. I didn’t read it before sending, so can’t give description.

Presents the idea that language is definable in terms of seven different 'key language types,' that an understanding of these types and their functions support the basic design practices which must be used to build efficient and usable systems for use by human beings. Thirteen specific criteria are listed to assist in the judging and/or constructing of a systems design, based on the design's use of language. Won the award for the Best Paper at the conference. See “On the Design of Language for System Design, Original MS with Slides for Presentation in Vienna” for a copy of the slides used during lecture. Presented at European Meeting for Cybernetics & Systems Research (EMCSR), 4-8 April 1988, University of Vienna, Austria.

Discussion of the potential future of digital computers and the possibility of a “creative machine.”

A proposal to improve and articulate the connection between systems studies and the accumulated body of knowledge. Building on ideas from Popper and Peirce, among others, Warfield introduces his concept of a 'Cosmic Partition' containing the divisions Library, Phaneron and Residue. Presented at Annual Meeting Society for General Systems Research, Los Angeles, CA, 27-31 May 1985. See also, "Some Laws and Principles of Design," which he presented at the same conference, and "Relating the Blocks of the Cosmic Partition." 

An Interactive Management Report on a Workshop facilitated by Benjamin Broome. Contains figure diagram of JOPES Problematique. Held 6-8 December 1995, Fair Lakes, Fairfax County, Virginia. JOPES REPORT, draft, "On Redesigning Of The Joint Planning & Execution Program" 1995.

Discussion of the importance of, and history behind, scientific language. Includes suggestion of new terminologies and a new approach to integrative studies, based in language design. Presented at Annual Meeting of Association for Integrative Studies (AIS) held at St. Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1-4 November 1990.