Super User

Super User

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Autobio for Umpleby's Web Page

An autobiography for the American Society for Cybernetics website. Requested by Stuart Umpleby.



Names and addresses of the 44 persons who attended one or more of the Johnson Center Lecture Series on Complexity. Lectures occurred during the 1998 fall semester.

Notification that the new edition of the STOC (Symposium on Theory of Computing)/FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) bibliography will include two papers by Warfield. They are “Switching Networks as Models of Discrete Stochastic Process,” and “Switching Circuits as Topological Models in Discrete Probability Theory.”

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

An Assault on Complexity

A presentation of philosophical and mathematical fundamentals for techniques in the participative methodologies, for use in societal problem solving. Battelle Monograph No. 3

Paper presented by Warfield that criticizes shallow, hasty technology, which produces ‘invasive systems’ loaded with potential disaster. Warfield advocates a technology based on ‘deep logic’ which utilizes the tools of “Generic Design Science,” a continuous reevaluation process. Presented at 1989 Simposio Internacao de Comunicao Significao e Conhecimento face as Technologias de Informacao, 13-15 Sept., Lisbon. Later published in a proceedings of the conference.

For further information find Warfield, J. N. "Artificial Philosophy and the Decline of Technology." Proceedings of the (International Symposium: Communication, Meaning and Knowledge versus Information Technology) Simpósio Internacional de Comunicaçao Significaçao e Conhecimento Face as Technológias de Informaçao. Lisbon, Portugal. September 13-15 (1989). Secçao I. [IASIS 89/005] when using link http://www.gmu.edu/depts/t-iasis/biblio/a-biblio.htm.

A PDF version for download is not available.  A published offprint of full text and also Warfield’s working paper manuscripts are at Fenwick Library, Box 94/Folders 2 & 10, C0016, SCRC, George Mason University Libraries

A bibliography of articles written by Harold D. Lasswell and others assembled by Warfield.



Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Arizona System

Collection of papers related to electronic meetings systems lab established at the University of Arizona at Tucson. Warfield saw this lab as the antithesis of Interactive Management. (The papers are now located in Comparison Papers at George Mason University Special Collections & Archives Box 17.)

Statistics illustrating efficacy of Interpretive Structural Modeling in terms of time saved in group working sessions.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 20:09

Areas of Possible Doctoral Research

Collection of ideas for possible dissertation topics including metrics, the corporate observatorium, general concept of models with contextual implications and software algorithms.

Appraisal of videos relating to complexity listed at over one-million dollars. No photocopying allowed. Done by Dr. Steve Johnson of the “Appraisers Association of America, American Society of Appraisers NQ675700, International Society of Appraisers NQ3891. Dr. Johnson had previously appraised the Nixon library collection.

Categories: This seems unique and I do not know how to categorize it.