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Four Typologies of Complexity
A dictionary definition of "typology" along with a memo list of four terminologies which might be used in a future paper.
Four Funerals and a Wedding or How the Grinches Stole Science
Contends that it is time to bury Management Science, Computer Science, Systems Science and Problem-Solving. Argues that they are not worthy of the distinction of being called academic disciplines much less sciences. All four of these can, and should be, replaced with a curriculum developed by Interactive Management methods. See also, “Four Funerals and a Wedding or How the Grinches Stole Science: Presentation” which contains similar arguments but with added materials developed in intervening years.
Four Funerals and a Wedding or How the Grinches Stole Science: Presentation
A set of 23 transparencies used for a lecture presented 1 September 1999 at a Colloquium for TIPP (The Institute of Public Policy), George Mason University. Although it has the same title as “Four Funerals and a Wedding or How the Grinches Stole Science,” it contains new information. Warfield discusses his desire to symbolically bury four concepts: Management Science, Computer Science, Systems Science, and Problem-Solving. At the same time, he announces the "engagement" of Reasoning with Rhetoric. For a list of the transparencies see notes section.
Four Case Studies: Applications of Interactive Management
Deals with four different situations in which Interactive Management was used: Case 1, (Industrial) a problem concerning the design and manufacture of a fuel pump for a large piece of machinery used in farming. Case 2, (Educational) the curriculum problem of Ph.D. research in Public Policy at George Mason University. Case 3, (Industrial) Automotive System Design, drawn from the analytical powertrain workshops held for Ford Motor Company. Case 4, (Government) Redesigning the U.S. Defense Acquisition System, based on workshops run by Henry Alberts at Defense Systems Management College. Presented at Fourth European School of Systems Sciences, University of Humberside, Hull, U.K., 17- 18 July 1995.
Four Books on Complexity: Summaries. [A Bibliography]
Discussion of interrelations and abstracts for four of Warfield’s books. They are Societal Systems: Planning, Policy and Complexity (1976), A Science of Generic Design, 2 ed. (1994), A Handbook of Interactive Management (1994) and “The Work Program of Complexity: From Origins to Outcomes” (1995). “The Work Program of Complexity” was a manuscript and later published as Understanding Complexity (2002). The annotations are displayed in an easy-to-follow table format, which shows a separate column for each chapter in each book, giving: Chapter title, Primary questions raised, and Abstract of chapter.
Foundations of Thought. Pages 5-39 of Notebook #1 prepared for Mathematics of Modeling Workshop
Review of the development of human beginning with the ancient Greeks. Covers broad range of topics relating to logic and the development of human knowledge. Emphasis placed on thinkers including Aristotle and Charles Sanders Peirce who have particularly influenced his thinking. Part of the study materials for a workshop held 21 June - 2 July 1993 at ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) in Mexico.
Foundations of Inquiry
Three pages only on the beginning of a paper which seems to be an exploration of the nature of human intellect
Foundations of Conceptual Science
A collection of three typed pages and three handwritten pages which seem to be an unfinished manuscript.
Foundations of Complexity - Notes
Manuscript of handwritten pages, plus photocopy of a book review by Klaus J. Krippendorf.
Formalisms in Science and Practice
Argues that the consequences of failure to distinguish science from technology are long-term in nature. They will ultimately be seen as most egregious in terms of their impact on large-scale systems thinking, which is what twenty-first century governments will most need most. In part this is due to the failure of funding agencies to sponsor the kind of aggressive scientific effort needed to put appropriate methodologies in the service of designing to resolve complexity. Arguments that strive to overcome this situation are seldom given an airing, and may never be heard by those who engage in the continued misrepresentations. Parts of this manuscript would be used in “A Role for Formalisms in Integrative Studies.”