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Graphics for System Design
Highly mathematical. Contains 23 numbered items all dealing with various mathematical terms, assumptions, formula or definitions.
A Graphically-Integrated Language System: A Proposal to The Software Productivity Consortium, Part II. (GRAILS)
This is Part 2 of a 2-part proposal. This part of the proposal asserts the possibility of a software capable of designing a super-language which is interchangeably usable and comprehensible among various intellectual and technical levels, to be called by the acronym GRAILS (Graphically Integrated Language System). The proposal includes photocopies of 6 published articles, five of which are by Warfield, and is based on the concept of a "Domain of Science Model" which uses ISM and other techniques developed by him. A good introductory paper for persons interested in studying Warfield’s Science of Generic Design. See also: Part I "ADA Syntax Study and Recommendations."
Goals Study for the Rodman Program - A Report
The Rodman program was a special set of classes and seminars provided exclusively for top-level freshman and sophomore engineering students at the University of Virginia. One of his earliest formal teaching efforts with his design theory. In 1984 And 1985 his paper "A course in generic design for engineers" was a close description of the ideas he put to use in the Rodman course.
GMU Award certificate for 25 years of service
A certificate that represents 25 years of service In the Commonwealth of Virginia, not at George Mason exclusively. Warfield taught at GMU for 16 years (1984-2000) and worked at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville for nine years as chairman of Electrical Engineering Department and director of Center for Interactive Management (1975-1984).
Gibbs (Study notes on book by M. Rukeyser)
Excerpts, summaries and notes Warfield took while reading Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Gibbs (Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bridge Press, 1988).
Ghana Work Done in 1990 -DRAFT (To Assist the Technology Transfer Centre)
This is a scrapbook of materials is a rough draft, with computer printouts and handwritten notes, which preceded the formal report titled "Project & Funding Proposal for Development of Technology Transfer Centre.”
Annotated Bibliography: Generic Systems Design & Interactive Management (Part 1)
This is the title page and front matter of a comprehensive research bibliography dated 1972 through 1990, which was distributed for several years from Warfield’s office at 219 Thompson Hall, George Mason University. Click here for PART 2. In print both parts are combined as a single volume.
Generic Planning: Research Results and Applications
Provides a thorough review of the basic precepts of his "generic design science." Discusses the "Twelve Laws of Design Science" and gives short descriptions of how his generic design concepts are now being utilized in real life applications.
Full citation: John Warfield, "Generic Planning: Research Results and Applications", in W. F. Schut and C. W. W. van Lohuizen, eds. Managing Knowledge for Design, Planning, and Decision Making (Delft: Delft University Press, 1990), 109-128 and in Knowledge in Society 3(4), Special Issue (Winter, 1990-91) 91-113
For abstract please see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251323522_Generic_planning_Research_results_and_applications.
Generic Design: Lecture
This talk was given during Warfield's two week period in Mexico when he was giving short course on Generic Design at ITESM. Presented to the Monterrey Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Monterrey, Mexico, 29 June 1993.
Generic Design Science & Interactive Management OVERVIEW
Contains photocopies of 30 transparencies designed to give an overview of Generic Design Science and Interactive Management. One in a series of four small reports originating in 1990-1991 used as class material for courses taught by Warfield at Defense Systems Management College and also before other audiences. Titles of the other three booklets in the series are 2) “Generic Design Science: Diagnostics” 3) “Interactive Management Workshops: Planning for Success” 4) “Generic Design Science: Laws of Generic Design.” Following 1991 these little reports were used often in workshops and lectures, distributed to audience and visitors until they were out of print. See also, “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: Front Material for Presentation Set.”