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One of Warfield’s most important papers, it presents the Domain of Science Model as a way of clarifying the distinctions between science and technology and the relation of science to methodology. Argues that newer sciences need a disciplining mechanism, and that the DOS Model can furnish such a mechanism. This Model is based on the philosophy of science as expressed by C. S. Peirce. Warfield has used it consistently as a disciplining agent in developing integrative sciences, and especially a science of generic design. Presented at 1986 International Conference on Mental Images, Values & Reality, 30th Annual Meeting of SGSR, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 26-30 May.

Includes much of the day-by-day procession of the Primer Interloquium held in Guanajuato, Mexico 21-23 March 1994. Has documents from planning stages through to final days. Also included are documents related to an Interactive Management session held before an audience of several hundred in the State Auditorium of Guanajuato, facilitated by Alexander Christakis.

Critique of John W. Burton, Resolving Deep-Rooted Conflict: A Handbook (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987).

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Distributive Lattice

Distributive Lattice is the title Warfield used in his inventory index. It is a table that shows the cardinality of all the levels found in a distributive lattice that corresponds to an n-dimensional system for n lying in the range (0, 10).

Calls on educators to take seriously the need to sensitize people to complexity as a behavioral concept which higher education need to take steps to correct—particularly in those areas where the consequences of technomyopia threaten to bring down the educational system itself.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Discrete Stochastic Systems

No information on this article, but possibly related to an earlier published article in Switching Networks as Models of Discrete Stochastic Processes. In Julius T. Tou, Ed, APPLIED AUTOMATA THEORY.

A collection of 18 problematiques from various Interpretive Structural Modeling workshops. Each one includes full explanation and interpretation of the figure. Report has two complete papers as appendices: “Complexity Measurement of Systems Design,” by Scott M. Staley and “Spreadthink” by Warfield.

A list of 14 individuals who have used Interpretive Structural Modeling and the consensus methodologies. Includes brief description of how and where they used them.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Dimensionality (1987)

A paper with the aim of proposing the concept of "Dimensionality" for general scientific purposes having an expanded meaning that encompasses earlier meanings, and which has the power to bring needed discipline to large-scale systems design. Zwicky's morphological box is used as a takeoff point to introduce the concept of "spaces of dimensionality higher than three." Shows that (in spite of reluctance of humans to grasp multi-dimensional problems) there exists a methodology where problems of many dimensions may be studied, using the concepts of "Variety, Saliency and Parsimony" as laws and principles of design.

Contains Warfield’s patent for Digital Squelch System and information relating to the patent process. Schematic and summary narrative of patent included. Warfield signed over patent rights to his employer in whose company the invention work was done - Wilcox Electric Co., of Kansas City, MO.