PRESENT POSITION

John N. Warfield is University Professor and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences (IASIS) at George Mason University, a state university, in Fairfax, Virginia. IASIS is a part of the Institute of Public Policy (TIPP) at George Mason University.

ACADEMIC DEGREES.

He received the Bachelor of Arts (honors, mathematics), Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (honors), and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, in 1948, 1948, and 1949, respectively.

He received the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1952. His major was electrical engineering with a specialty in communications engineering.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE.

He has about 38 years of university faculty service, mostly in departments of electrical engineering, at the following universities: University of Missouri, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois, Purdue University, University of Kansas, University of Colorado, Ohio State University, University of Virginia, and George Mason University. He served as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia from 1975 to 1979.

At the University of Virginia, he held the Harry Douglas Forsyth Professorship for eight years. At George Mason University he has held the title University Professor for thirteen years. Throughout the twenty-one years of his service in Virginia universities, he has held the title "Eminent Scholar".

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

He has about 10 years of industrial experience with these firms: Wilcox Electric Company, Battelle Memorial Institute, and Burroughs Corporation. His longest service in this group was with the Battelle Memorial Institute from 1968 to 1974, where he held the title Senior Research Leader.

SOCIETIES.

He has been elected President of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and of the International Systems Sciences Society (formerly called the Society for General Systems Research). He served as Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics from 1968 to 1971, and as founding Editor-in-Chief of the Pergamon journal Systems Research, during the period 1981-1990.

He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and holds that organization's Centennial Medal.

He is a Fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science.

He is a member of the Association for Integrative Studies.

PUBLICATIONS AND INVENTIONS.

He is the author of two U. S. patents on electronic equipment, and the inventor of Interpretive Structural Modeling, Interactive Management, and Generic Design Science.

He is the sole author of four books, co-author of another, and co-translator of one book from German. He is the author or co-author of about 100 papers. The subjects of these books and articles include computers, software, systems, organizations, electrical networks, interactive management, and generic design science. His most recent book is A SCIENCE OF GENERIC DESIGN: MANAGING COMPLEXITY THROUGH SYSTEMS DESIGN, Second Edition, Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press 1994. In the same year (1994), Iowa State University Press also published the book A HANDBOOK OF INTERACTIVE MANAGEMENT, co-authored with Professor Roxana Cárdenas.

CONSULTING AND PUBLIC SERVICE.

He has served as a consultant to these corporations: IBM Corporation, Comsat Corporation, Ford Motor Company, Niagara-Mohawk Power Company, and Northern Telecom Corporation.

He has also served as consultant to the Saudi Arabian National Center for Science and Technology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Technology Transfer Centre of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of Ghana, and the Lorain (Ohio) County Community College.

INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS.

He has made presentations on his research results in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, India, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, and the Federal Republic of Germany. These included one-week or longer short courses in the Federal Republic of Germany, India, Mexico, Argentina, and Saudi Arabia.

SPONSORED RESEARCH.

In addition to the research carried out as part of his regular assignments, he has supervised and/or directed and/or carried out sponsored projects paid for by the following organizations: U. S. National Science Foundation, Saudi Arabian National Center for Science and Technology, U. S. Office of Environmental Education, Department of Defense (Office of the Under Secretary for Acquisition), Defense Systems Management College, National Computer Graphics Association, Agricultural Research Service, Fairfax Chamber of Commerce, Environmental Protection Agency, Naval Air Development Center, National Forest Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, Food and Drug Administration, Public Technology, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Alliance of Nursing Organizations, Americans for Indian Opportunity, Associated Catholic Charities, Winnebago Tribe of Indians, American Public Power Association, Institute for Defense Analyses, Poarch Band of Creek Indians, University of Pennsylvania Center for School Study Councils, Naval Surface Warfare Center, IBM Corporation, Comsat Corporation, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico), and the Ford Motor Company.

RECENT RESEARCH ACTIVITY:

His recent research activities include:

contracts with the Defense Systems Management College, through which he educated faculty of the College on the Science of Generic Design and on the practice of Interactive Management; while assisting faculty to plan and conduct Interactive Management workshops on such subjects as program management in DoD, erosion of the industrial base, concurrent engineering, risk reduction, and program oversight; and a contract to enhance the ISM for Windows software by adding a graphics capability

contracts with Ford Motor Company Research Laboratories, through which he worked with Ford to replace the system of Quality Function Deployment being used by Ford as the foundation of its quality program with Interactive Management, assisting Ford Motor Company to introduce new system design practices into its vehicle development programs, and educating Ford personnel to apply these practices independently of outside contractors

He is also collaborating informally with the following organizations (a) ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico), (b) TTC (Technology Transfer Centre) of Ghana, (c) The Ohio State University College of Education, and (d) the University of Cape Town Engineering Management program. Possible collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences is being discussed.

He is preparing a book manuscript titled THE WORK PROGRAM OF COMPLEXITY: FROM ORIGINS TO OUTCOMES.

American Society for Engineering Education

Western Electric Fund Award for Excellence in Instruction of Engineering Students (Midwest Section), 1966
Information Systems Commiteee, 1967
Member, 1960-1987

Society for General Systems Research (now called the International Society for Systems Sciences)

Member, 1980-1990
President, 1982

American Management Associations

Member, 1982-1984

International Federation for Systems Research

Editor-in-Chief, Systems Research, 1981-1990

Association for Integrative Studies

Member, 1986-present

Panetics Society

Member, 1993-present

United Kingdom Systems Society

Member, 1985-1988

Society for Design and Process Science,

Member, 1995-present
Fellow, 1996

Honor Societies

Member, Tau Beta Pi, 1947-present
Member, Eta Kappa Nu, 1947-present
Member, Sigma Xi, 1953-present

• Warfield, J. N., "Intent Structures", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, March, 1973, 133-140.

• Warfield, J. N., An Assault on Complexity, Columbus: Battelle Memorial Institute, Monograph No. 3, April, 1973.

• Warfield, J. N., "Binary Matrices in Systems Modeling", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, September, 1973, 441-449.

• Warfield, J. N., "Constructing Operational Value Systems for Proposed Two-Unit Coalitions", Proceedings 1973 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 204-213.

• Warfield, J. N., "Developing Subsystem Matrices in Structural Modeling", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, January, 1974, 74-80.

• Warfield, J. N., "Developing Interconnection Matrices in Structural Modeling", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, January, 1974, 81-87.

• Warfield, J. N., Structuring Complex Systems, Columbus: Battelle Memorial Institute Monograph No. 4, April, 1974.

• Warfield, J. N., "Toward Interpretation of Complex Structural Models", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, September, 1974, 405-417.

• Warfield, J. N., "An Interim Look at Uses of Interpretive Structural Modeling", Research Futures, Third Quarter, 1974.

• El Mokadem, Ahmed, J. N. Warfield, D. Pollick, and K. Kawamura, "Modularization of Large Econometric Models: An Application of Structural Modeling", Proceedings of the 1974 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, November, 1974, 683-692.

• Warfield, J. N., "Transitive Interconnection of Transitive Structures", Proceedings of the 6th Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh: Instrument Society of America, April, 1975.

• Warfield, J. N., Improving Behavior in Policymaking, Approaches to Problem Solving, No. 1, Columbus: Academy for Contemporary Problems, August, 1975.

• Warfield, J. N., Totos: Improving Group Problem-Solving, Approaches to Problem Solving, No. 2, Columbus: Academy for Contemporary Problems, August, 1975.

• Warfield, J. N., H. Geschka, and R. Hamilton, Methods of Idea Management, Approaches to Problem Solving No. 4, Columbus: Academy for Contemporary Problems, August, 1975.

• Warfield, J. N., "Profiles of Metapolicy", Proceedings of the 1975 Conference on Cybernetics and Society, September, 1975, 14ff.

• Warfield, J. N., "Implication Structures for System Interconnection Matrices", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, January, 1976, 18-24.

• Warfield, J. N., "Extending Interpretive Structural Modeling", Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh: Instrument Society of America, 1976, 1163-1167.

• Fertig, J.A., and J. N. Warfield, "Relations and Decision Making", Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh: Instrument Society of America, 1976, 1177-1181.

• Warfield, J. N., "Crossing Theory and Hierarchy Mapping", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, July, 1977, 502-523.

• Warfield, J. N., "Notes on Conceptual Science", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October, 1978, 744-745.

• Warfield, J. N., "The Interface Between Models and Policymakers", Journal of Policy Analysis and Information Systems, 3(1), June, 1979, 53-64.

• Warfield, J. N., "Some Principles of Knowledge Organization", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, June, 1979, 317-325.

• Warfield, J. N., "Systems-Oriented Environmental Education", Proc. Society for General Systems Research, August, 1979, 797-799.

• Warfield, J. N., "Systems Planning for Environmental Education", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, December, 1979, 816-823.

• Warfield, J. N., "Science and Systems Science: A Technology Perspective", Proc. Society for General Systems Research , January, 1980, 212-218.

• Warfield, J. N., "Modeling Management", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, April, 1980, 197.

• Warfield, J. N., "Complementary Relations and Map Reading", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, June, 1980, 285-291.

• Warfield, J. N., "Priority Structures", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October, 1980, 642-645.

• Warfield, J. N., "A Role for Values in Educational System Design", Proceedings 1980 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Society, October, 1980, 234-241.

• Warfield, J. N., "Learning Through Model Building", in Computer-Assisted Analysis and Model Simplification (H. J. Greenberg and J. Maybee, Eds.), New York: Academic Press, 1981, 69-78.

• Warfield, J. N., "Mapping Environmental Education", University of the District of Columbia Graduate Journal 1(1), Fall, 1981, 23-28.

• Warfield, J. N., "Interpretive Structural Modeling", Chapter 5 in Group Planning and Problem-Solving Methods in Engineering (S. A. Olsen, Ed.), New York: Wiley, 1982, 155-201.

• Warfield, J. N., "Systems-Oriented Environmental Education", in Systems Education: Perspectives, Programs, Methods, Seaside, CA: Intersystems, 1983, 61-63.

• Warfield, J. N., "Organizations and Systems Learning", General Systems, 27, 1982, 5-74.

• Warfield, J. N., "Comments on B. Golden and A. Assad: 'A Preliminary Framework for Urban Model Building'" in Adequate Modeling of Systems (H. Wedde, Ed.), West Germany: Springer, Verlag, 1983, 333-335.

• Warfield, J. N., "Selecting Participation Methodologies for Systems Design", Proc. International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, New York: IEEE, January, 1983, 762-764.

• Warfield, J. N., "Principles of Interactive Management", Proc. International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, New York: IEEE, January, 1983, 746-750.

• Warfield, J. N., "Progress in Interactive Management", Proc. 6th International Congress of the World Organization of General Systems and Cybernetics, Paris: AFCET, 1984, XXIX-XXXV.

• Warfield, J. N., "A Model of a Discipline", Proc. of the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, New York: IEEE, 1984, 78-84.

• Warfield, J. N., "Structural Analysis of a Computer Language", Proc. 17th Annual Southeastern Symposium on Systems Theory, New York: IEEE, 1985, 229-234.

• Warfield, J. N., "On the Choice of Frames for Systems Studies", Proc. Society for General Systems Research, Seaside, CA: Intersystems, 1985 (1), 294-299.

• Warfield, J. N., "Developing a Design Culture in Higher Education", Proc. Society for General Systems Research, Seaside, CA: Intersystems, 1985 (2), 725-729.

• Warfield, J. N., "Institutionalizing Environmental Education", Environmental Education and Information 4(3), Manchester: University of Salford, 1985.

• Warfield, J. N., "Education in Generic Design", Proc. Society for General Systems Research, Salinas, CA: Intersystems, 1986, I, H22-H33.

• Warfield, J. N., "The Domain of Science Model: Evolution and Design", Proc. Society for General Systems Research, Salinas, CA: Intersystems, 1986, I, H46-H59.

• Warfield, J. N., "Dimensionality", Proc. 1986 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2, New York: IEEE, 1986, 1118-1121.

• Warfield, J. N., "Micromathematics and Macromathematics", Proc. 1986 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2, New York: IEEE, 1986, 1127-1131.

• Warfield, J. N., "Interpretive Structural Modeling", in Systems and Control Encyclopedia, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987.

• Warfield, J. N., "Developing a Design Culture in Higher Education", General Systems, XXX, 1987, 63-68 (reprinted from the 1985 conference version).

• Warfield, J. N., "Implications of Scale for Systems Design", Proc. Society for General Systems Research, Budapest: SGSR, 1987, 1205-1211.

• Warfield, J. N., and A. N. Christakis, "Dimensionality", Systems Research 4(2), 1987, 127-137.

• Warfield, J. N., "What Disciplines Large-Scale Systems Design?" Proc. 1987 Conference on Planning and Design in Management of Business and Organizations (P. C. Nutt, Ed.), New York: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1987, 1-8.

• Warfield, J. N., "A Complexity Metric for High-Level Software Languages", Proc. International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, New York: IEEE, October, 1987, 438-442.

• Warfield, J. N., "Thinking About Systems", Editorial in Systems Research 4(4), 1987, 227-234, reprinted in General Systems, 1990.

• Warfield, J. N., "On the Design of Language for Systems Design", Cybernetics and Systems '88, Proc. 9th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (R. Trappl, Ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1988, 133-140.

• Warfield, J. N., "Criteria for a Science of Design", Proc. 19th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Research Triangle Park: Instrument Society of America, 1988, 643-646.

• Warfield, J. N., "Implicit Aspects of Much Systems Thinking", Systems Research 5(4), 1988, 333-342.

• Warfield, J. N., "The Magical Number Three--Plus or Minus Zero", Cybernetics and Systems 19, 1988, 339-358.

• Warfield, J. N., "Do As I Say: A Review Essay of John W. Burton, 'Resolving Deep-Rooted Conflict: A Handbook'", International Journal of Group Tensions 18(3), 1988, 200-208.

• Ohuchi, A., I. Kaji, and J. N. Warfield, "Structural Analysis and a Complexity Metric for High-Level Software Languages", 1988 Proceedings of the Conference of the Japan Information Processing Society, 1988, 646-647 (in Japanese).

• Warfield, J. N. and M. N. B. Ayiku, "Sociotechnical Modeling for Developing Nations", Journal of Management Science and Applied Cybernetics (SCIMA), January, 1989, 25-40.

• Warfield, J. N., "Underconceptualization", Proceedings of the Conference on Support, Society, and Culture: Mutual Uses of Cybernetics and Science (G. De Zeeuw and R. Glanville, Eds.), Univ. of Amsterdam, March, 1989, 15-39 (see 1991 for formal publication).

• Warfield, J. N., "Design Science: Experience in Teaching Large System Design", Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, June, 1989, 39-41.

• Warfield, J. N., "Artificial Philosophy and the Decline of Technology", Simposio Internação de Communição, Significão e Conhecimento, Seccão I, Set. 13/15, Lisbon, Portugal, 1989.

• Warfield, J. N., "Simple System Models Based on Sophisticated Assumptions", Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa (Science of Science), Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences 3-4, 1989, 653-662, (in Polish).

• Warfield, J. N., "Presuppositions", in Cybernetics and Systems '90, (R. Trappl, Ed.), Singapore: World Scientific, 1990, 213-219.

• Warfield, J. N., "Cybernetics, Systems Science, and the Great University", Systems Research 7(4), December, 1990, 287-294.

• Warfield, J. N., "Widely-Ignored Subtleties That Are Critical to Decision-Making", in Multiple Criteria Decision Making -- Proceedings of the Ninth Multicriteria Decision-Making Conference: Theory and Applications in Business, Industry, and Government, (Edited by Ambrose Goicoechea, Lucien Duckstein, and Stanley Zionts), [conference held at George Mason University, August, 1990], pp. 449-457.

• Warfield, J. N., "A Course in Generic Design for Engineers", Projektowanie i Systemy XI, 1990, 26-43 (in Polish).

• Warfield, J. N., "Generic Planning: Research Results and Applications", in Managing Knowledge for Design, Planning, and Decision Making (W. F. Schut and C. W. W. van Lohuizen, Eds.), Delft: Delft University Press, 1990, 109-128 and in Knowledge in Society 3(4), Special Issue, Winter, 1990-91, 91-113.

• Warfield, J. N., "Economics and Systems Science", Journal of Management Science and Applied Cybernetics (SCIMA, New Delhi) 19(3), 1990, 65-71.

• Warfield, J. N., "Complexity and Cognitive Equilibium: Experimental Results and Their Implications", Human Systems Management 10(3), 1991, 195-202.

• Warfield, J. N., Underconceptualization, in Mutual Uses of Cybernetics and Science, Special issue of Systemica: Journal of the Dutch Systems Group (R. Glanville and G. de Zeeuw, Eds.), Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers, 1991, 415-433.

• Warfield, J. N., "Design and Manufacturing Methodologies: A Comparison of American and Japanese Developments", Working Paper Number 92-9, The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University (62 pages), 1992

• Warfield, J. N., "Dwie postawy projektowania" ("Dual-Basis Design) (in Polish), Prakseololgia 1-2(114-115), 1992, 43-58.

• Warfield, J. N. and Roxana Cárdenas, A Handbook of Interactive Management, Iowa State University Press, 1994 (draft version published locally in preliminary form for review in 1991 and 1992).

• Warfield, J. N., "Complexity and Cognitive Equilibrium: Experimental Results and Their Implications", Chapter 5 in Dennis J. D. Sandole and Hugo van der Merwe (Eds.): Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice: Integration and Application, New York: University of Manchester Press, 1993, pages 65-77.

• Warfield, J. N., "Structural Thinking: Producing Effective Organizational Change", a Silver Anniversary Paper, commemorating 25 years of research on complexity by the author, Fairfax, VA: IASIS, 1993, 65 pages.

• Warfield, J. N., and Carol Teigen, "Groupthink, Clanthink, Spreadthink, and Linkthink: Decision-Making on Complex Issues in Organizations", Fairfax, VA: IASIS, 1993, 68 pages.

• Warfield, J. N., "Cybernetics", Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, Academic Press, 1994, pp. 63-72.

• Warfield, J. N., "Accelerating Productivity of Intellectual Organizations by Systems Methodologies", Proceedings, International Symposium on Intellectual Facilitation of Creative Activities, Miel Parque Tokyo, 1994, 34-39.

• Warfield, J. N., A Science of Generic Design: Managing Complexity Through Systems Design, Salinas, CA: Intersystems, 1990 (two volume set); Second Edition published by Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA, 1994.

• Warfield, J. N., "SPREADTHINK: Explaining Ineffective Groups", Systems Research 12(1), March, 1995 5-14.

• Warfield, J. N., "A Course in Generic Design for Engineers", a chapter in the following book. Arne Collen and Wojciech W. Gasparski (Eds.), Design and Systems: General Applications of Methodology, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995, 415-437.

• Warfield, J. N., "Demands Imposed on Systems Science by Complexity", Proceedings of the United Kingdom Systems Society 4th International Conference: Critical Issues in Systems Theory and Practice, Hull, United Kingdom, July, 1995, (Keith Ellis, Amanda Gregory, Bridget Mears-Young, and Gillian Ragsdell, Editors), 81-88.

• Warfield, J. N., and S. M. Staley: "STRUCTURAL THINKING: Organizing Complexity Through Disciplined Activity", Systems Research 13(1), March, 1996, 47-67.

• Note: The publisher (Wiley) modifed Table 2 after the page proof had been approved, in order to save space, and in doing so garbled the text in the Table. IASIS prepared and distributed a report that included both a reprint (with Table 2 garbled) and the version of Table 2 that was originally sent to the publisher. In Vol. 13(2) a publisher-created correction appeared.

• Warfield, J. N., "Executive Mindbugs and Panetics", Panetics 5(2), December, 1996, 4-10.

• "The Corporate Observatorium: Sustaining Management Communication and Continuity in an Age of Complexity", in Tanik, M. M., et al (Eds.), Integrated Design and Process Technology, IDPT-Vol. 2, 1996. (Proc. Society for Design and Process Science, Austin, TX), 169-172.

• "Five Schools of Thought About Complexity: Implications for Design and Process Science", Tanik, M. M., et al (Eds.), Integrated Design and Process Technology, IDPT-Vol. 2, 1996. (Proc. Society for Design and Process Science, Austin, TX) 389-394.

• "A Platform for Sociotechnical System Design"(September, 1997), Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, Volume 1, Number 1, 37-53.

• "Condensed Patterns Relevant to the Science of Complexity (Structure-Based School), Generic Design Science, and Interactive Management", in Proceedings, International Systems Thinking Conference and Workshops, University of Cape Town, Program for Systems Management, School of Engineering Management, 4-7 November, 1997, 93-99.
  Under Review:

• "A Role for Formalisms in Integrative Studies", submitted to Issues in Integrative Studies

• "The Problematique: Evolution of an Idea", submitted to Systems Research, accepted subject to revision. Revised version submitted in May, 1998.

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  PRESENTATIONS

  PRESENTATIONS, 1976-1979

  • "Compromising the Future: The Problem of Bounding Utility Measures for Technological Endeavors", Annual Meeting, American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 23, 1976, Boston, MA.

  • "Extending Interpretive Structural Modeling", 7th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, University of Pittsburgh, April 26, 1976.

  • "Societal Forces Influencing R&D in the 1980's", Industrial Research Institute Annual Meeting, The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, May 29-June 1, 1977.

  • "Applying Systems Methodology to Societal Problems", American Association for the Advancement of Science/Society for General Systems Research Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., February, 1978.

  • "Office of Environmental Education Contracts", 1978 Institute on Environmental Education, Xerox Learning Center, Leesburg, Virginia, September, 1978.

  • "Some Applications of Interpretive Structural Modeling", Industrial Policy Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, University of Tokyo, November 6, 1978.

  • "Environmental Education", Virginia Council on Environmental Education, Richmond, Virginia, March 13, 1979.

  • "Portraying the Complexities of Environmental Education and Strategies for Learning", American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 9, 1979.

  • "History and Applications of Interpretive Structural Modeling", Canadian Operational Research Society, Ontario, May 22, 1979.

  • "Collective Inquiry Methods", NASA-ASEE Summer Design Workshop on Systems Engineering, Langley Field, Virginia, June 18, 1979.

  • "Mapping Environmental Education", University of the District of Columbia, August 21, 1979.
  PRESENTATIONS, 1979-1980

  • "Systems Planning for Environmental Education", International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, Denver, Colorado, October 8, 1979.

  • "War and Peace as a Systems Problem: How Can Technology Help?" International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, Denver,Colorado, October 9, 1979.

  • "Methodology for Large-Scale Systems", a series of workshops in India:

    ------Tata Management Training Center, Pune, December 12-14, 1979
    ------Bombay Section of the IEEE, Bombay, December 16-17, 1979
    ------Bangalore Section of the IEEE, Bangalore, December 18-19, 1979 in collaboration with Dr. R. W. House of Vanderbilt University and Dr. P. N. Murthy of IIT, Kanpur.

  • "Learning Through Model Building", Department of Energy Seminar on Computer-Assisted Modeling and Model Simplification, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 24, 1980.

  • "Workshop on Collective Inquiry Methods", Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA, July 21-23, 1980.

  • "Interdisciplinary Learning Methods", National Science Teachers Association, Pocono Mountains Annual Meeting, August ll, 1980.

  • "Short Course on Interpretive Structural Modeling", International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, Cambridge, MA, October 8-9, 1980.

  • "A Role for Values in Educational Systems Design", IEEE SMC Conference, Boston, MA, October 8, 1980.

  • "Methods for Enhancing Group Productivity", Executive Advisory Council of the School of Business, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, November 14, 1980.

  • "Workshop on Consensus Methodologies", Saudi Arabia National Center for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with Dr. Kazuhiko Kawamura of Vanderbilt University and Dr. Robert J. Waller of the University of Northern Iowa, December 13-18, 1980.
  PRESENTATIONS, 1981-1986

  • "Interpretive Structural Modeling", ORSA/TIMS Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, October 13, 1981.

  • "Consensus Methodologies", Workshop in Bonn, Germany, managed by Carl Cranz Gesellschaft, April 26-28, 1982.

  • "Interpretive Structural Modeling and the Sigma-4 Process" Workshops in Brazil: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, May 20-21, 1982: IBM Science Center, Brasilia , May 27-28, 1982.

  • "The Process Alternative", Governor's Commission on Virginia's Future, Richmond, Virginia, February 3, 1983.

  • "Keeping Conflict Resolution in its Place", Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, April 29, 1983.

  • "Organizations and Systems Learning", SGSR Presidential Address, Detroit, MI, May, 1983.

  • "Progress in Interactive Management", World Congress on General Systems and Cybernetics, Paris, France, September, 1984.

  • "A Model of a Discipline", IEEE SMC Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October, 1984.

  • "Structural Analysis of a Computer Language", l7th Southeastern Symposium on Systems Theory, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, March, 1985.

  • "Some Laws and Principles of Design", l985 Annual Meeting, Society for General Systems Research, Los Angeles, CA, May, 1985.

  • "On the Choice of Frames for Systems Studies", 1985 Annual Meeting, Society for General Systems Research, Los Angeles, CA, May, 1985.

  • "A Typology of Laws", Annual Meeting, American Society for Cybernetics, Virginia Beach, VA, February, 1986.

  • "Cooperative Nonaccountability in Organizations", Annual Meeting, American Society for Cybernetics, Virginia Beach, VA, February, 1986.
  PRESENTATIONS, 1986-1988

  • "Education in Generic Design", SGSR Annual Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, May, 1986.

  • "The Domain of Science Model: Evolution and Design", SGSR Annual Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, May, 1986.

  • "Interactive Management and its Applications", faculty retreat for the Defense Systems Management College, Airlie House, Virginia, 1986.

  • "Dimensionality", IEEE SMC Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October, 1986.

  • "Micromathematics and Macromathematics", IEEE SMC Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October, 1986.

  • "The Magical Number Three--Plus or Minus Zero", 1987 Annual Meeting, SGSR, Budapest, Hungary, June, 1987.

  • "Implications of Scale for Systems Design", 1987 Annual Meeting, SGSR, Budapest, Hungary, June, 1987.

  • "What Disciplines Large-Scale Systems Design?", International Congress on Design, Planning, and Theory, ASME, Boston, MA, August, 1987.

  • "Dual-Basis Design", International Congress on Design, Planning, and Theory, ASME, Boston, MA, August, 1987.

  • "A Complexity Metric for High-Level Software Languages", IEEE SMC Conference, Alexandria, VA, October, 1987.

  • "Systems Groups Around the World", Annual Meeting, Association for Integrative Studies, Pennsylvania State University, November, 1987.

  • "Influences", a series of seminars aimed at identifying semi-forgotten influences from the past on our present ways of thinking and acting, George Mason University, 1987-88 academic year.

  • "Methods for Working With Complexity", Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, week of January 2, 1988.
  PRESENTATIONS, 1988-1989

  • "On the Design of Language for Systems Design", European Conference on Cybernetics and Systems, University of Vienna, April, 1988 [presentation and paper won the award for the best paper in the Design Symposium]

  • "Criteria for a Science of Design", Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, University of Pittsburgh, May, 1988.

  • "Technomyopia Threatens our National Security", Washington Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Joint Chapters on Computers and Social Implications of Technology, Washington, D. C., June 22, 1988.

  • "Universal Priors to Science: How the Liberal Arts Could Revitalize Science", Annual Meeting, Association for Integrative Studies, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, October, 1988.

  • "Findings and Recommendations for the Continuing Development of Ghana", Quarterly meeting of the Board of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, Ghana, Jan. 18, 1989.

  • "Systems Engineering: Methodology for Large-Scale-System Design", Howard University joint NASA-Electrical Engineering Seminar, February, 1989.

  • "Underconceptualization", University of Amsterdam Conference on Support, Society, and Culture, March, 1989.

  • "Design Science: Need, Basis, Discipline, and Application to Large System Design", American Society for Engineering Education, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 26, 1989.

  • "Artificial Philosophy and the Decline of Technology", Lisbon International Symposium on Communication, Meaning, and Knowledge versus Information Technology, September, 1989.

  • "Valid and Spurious Conflict Resolution Theory", a Colloquium sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations, George Mason University, with Joseph Gittler and Kenneth Boulding, November 1, 1989.

  • "The Great University", a seminar series held at George Mason University, 1989-90 academic year to explore the concept of what would constitute a great university, and how such an institution might be established.

  • "The Management of Complexity Through Systems Design", ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), a workshop presented during the week December 11-15, 1989, Monterrey, Mexico.
  PRESENTATIONS, 1990-1992

  • "Success Factors in Technology Transfer for Developing Nations", Quarterly meeting of the Board of the Technology Transfer Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, Ghana, January 16, 1990.

  • "Twelve Laws of Systems Design", Fourth International Symposium on Industrial Engineering and Systems, ITESM (San Luis Potosi), San Luis Potosi, Mexico, April 4, 1990.

  • "Design Theory and Methodology Symposium", co-organized by Dr. Scott Staley of Ford Motor Company Research Laboratories and John N. Warfield. Dearborn, MI, May 7-8, 1990. Emphasis was on how manufacturing firms can enhance their total quality management through the use of Interactive Management based in the Science of Generic Design.

  • "Economics and Systems Science", International Congress on Cybernetics and Systems, Hunter College of CUNY, New York City, June 15, 1990.

  • "On Language Components for Integrative Studies", Asssociation for Integrative Studies Annual Meeting, St. Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, November 1-4, 1990.

  • "Translating the Theory of the Science of Generic Design into Practice", Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department Seminars, December 10 and 11, 1990.

  • "Complexity and Cognitive Equilibrium: Experimental Results and Their Implications", presented at the Annual Meeting, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D. C., February 19, 1991.

  • "Overview of Generic Design Science and Interactive Management", National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 22, 1991.

  • "Overview of Generic Design Science and Interactive Management", University of Michigan-Dearborn, School of Engineering, February 18, 1992.

  • "Science and Society", a series of invited seminars presented in Buenos Aires, Argentina, arranged by the Asociacion Argentina de Teoria General de Sistemas y Cibernetica (The Argentine Association for General Systems Theory and Cybernetics),
    • "Systemic Design: Organizing Systems Thinking for Human Purposes", University of Palermo, April 6, 1992.
    • "The Management of Complexity: Organizations and Processes", University of Buenos Aires, April 7, 1992.
    • "Economic Development: Comparative Multi-National Assessment of the Critical Role of the Research Institute", University of Buenos Aires, April 8, 1992.
    • "Perspectives on Language as an Integrative Social Force", University of Buenos Aires, April 9, 1992.
    • "The Philosophy of Science According to Charles S. Peirce", The Labor Court Building, April 10, 1992.
  PRESENTATIONS, 1992-1993

  • "The Mathematics of Modeling: Organizing and Interpreting Language and Knowledge", one-week course for the Center of Academic Excellence, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, July 27-31, 1992.

  • "The Learning Organization: Its Relevance to Policymaking", presented October 8, 1992, in the Colloquium of the Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University.

  • "Some Magnificent Academic Trusels and Their Social Consequences", presented at Pomona, CA, November 20th, 1992, at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Integrative Studies

  • "The Mathematics of Modeling: Organizing and Interpreting Language and Knowledge", one week course for The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, January 18-22, 1993.

  • "Clanthink", lecture presented at the Bell Northern Research Laboratory, Ottawa, Canada, June 3, 1993.

  • "Interactive Management", lectures presented at the International Interactive Symposium, Austin, TX, June 9, 1993.

  • "Generic Design", lecture presented to the Monterrey Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, June 29, 1993

  • "Science of Generic Design", lectures presented at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, June 21-July 2, 1993

  • "Criteria for Structural Thinking", presentation at the 15th Annual Meeting, Association for Integrative Studies, Detroit, MI, October, 8, 1993

  • "Structural Thinking and Interactive Management", A one-week course presented at the Bell Northern Research Laboratories, Ottawa, Canada, November 22-26, 1993, in collaboration with A. Roxana Cárdenas.
  PRESENTATIONS, 1994

  • "Comments on Two Future-Related World Issues", invited talk presented at the First Interloquium on the Twenty-First Century, Guanajuato, Mexico, March 21, 1994.

  • "Structural Thinking and Interactive Management", a one-week course presented for The Institute of Public Policy and the Computer Aided Logistics Shared Resource Center Network, George Mason University, June 6-10, 1994, in collaboration with A. Roxana Cárdenas."Spreadthink", presented at the 16th Annual Meeting, Association for Integrative Studies, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 30, 1994

  • "Accelerating Productivity of Intellectual Organizations by Systems Methodologies", invited talk presented at the Association of Industrial Engineers (Mexico) Industrial and Systems Engineering Symposium, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, October 22, 1994.

  • "Accelerating Productivity of Intellectual Organizations by Systems Methodologies", invited talk presented at the Science and Technology Agency of Japan Symposium on "Intellectual Facilitation of Creative Activities", Session on Management Support Systems for R &D Organizations, University of Tokyo, Miel Parque Tokyo, November 15, 1994.

  • "Trends of Systems Science and Technology", invited lecture at the Hitachi Systems Development Laboratory, Kawasaki, Japan, November 16, 1994.
  PRESENTATIONS, 1995

  • "Structural Thinking and Interactive Management", a three-day short course presented for graduate students in The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, January 9-11, 1995 [with collaboration of Dr. Scott M. Staley, Ford Research Laboratory, Dearborn, MI.]

  • "Demands of Complexity on Higher Education", seminar presentation at George Washington University Center for Social and Organizational Learning, March 28, 1995.

  • "Interactive Management", presentation to members of the Brucheum Society, home of Tom Burke, 6003 Nassau Drive, Springfield, Virginia, March 29, 1995.

  • "Demands of Complexity on Higher Education", presentation at the Colloquium of The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, April 6, 1995.

  • "A Panel of Philosophers and a Poet", invited presentation at the Headquarters of the United States Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, April 18, 1995.

  • "Complexity and Drummers", a five-day short course presented at George Mason University for industrial researchers and graduate students in The Institute of Public Policy [with collaboration of Dr. Scott M. Staley, Ford Research Laboratory, Dearborn, MI; and D. E. A. Roxana Cárdenas, Department of Systems Engineering, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Monterrey, Mexico].

  • "Interactive Management", Headquarters, United States Army Research Office, Adelphia Maryland, June 15, 1995.

  • "Interactive Management", Ford Motor Company of Europe, Warley, United Kingdom, July 5, 1995.

  • "Demands Imposed on Systems Science by Complexity", plenary presentation at the Fourth Annual Meeting, United Kingdom Systems Society, University of Humberside, Kingston-on-Hull, United Kingdom, July 14, 1995.

  • "Interactive Management", two half-days of lecturing at the Fourth European Systems School, University of Humberside, Kingston-on-Hull, United Kingdom, July 17-18, 1995.

  • "Complexity and Higher Education", George Washington University, University Club, August 16, 1995.

  • "Interactive Management", Second Industrial Engineering Conference, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores, Monterrey, Mexico, September 13-16, 1995.

  • "Procrustes is Alive and Well and Teaching Composition in the English Department", presentation at the 17th Annual Meeting, Association for Integrative Studies, Arizona State University West, Phoenix, Arizona, September 30, 1995.

  • "Demands of Complexity on Integrative Communications", panel presentation, 17th Annual Meeting, Association for Integrative Studies, Arizona State University West, Phoenix, Arizona, September 30, 1995. Panel members: John N. Warfield, Scott Cawelti, and Michael Litzelman.

  • "Surfers, Skin Divers, Pearl Divers, and Deep-Sea Divers", George Washington University Center for Social and Organizational Learning, October 10, 1995.

  • "The Great University", George Mason University Faculty Seminar, Mason Hall, October 26, 1995.

  • "Comparing American and Japanese Manufacturing-Related Methodologies", George Washington University, Center for Social and Organizational Learning", November 14, 1995.

  • "The Science of Generic Design: Foundations and Applications", plenary presentation at the First Annual Meeting of the International Society for Design and Process Science, University of Texas, IC² Center, Austin, Texas, December 9, 1995.
  PRESENTATIONS, 1996

  • "The Work Program of Complexity: From Origins to Outcomes", presentation at the Third Annual Industrial and Systems Engineering Conference, ITESM, Chihuahua Branch, March 21, 1996.

  • "Reflections on the History of Systems Engineering", presentation at NASA Short Course in Fredrick, Maryland, "Design Science", presentation at NASA Short Course, Williamsburg, VA, September 17, 1996.

  • "A Philosophy of Design", presentation at NASA Software Workshop Dinner Meeting, George Mason University, September 26, 1996.

  • "Five Schools of Thought on Complexity: Implications for Integrative Studies", presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Integrative Studies, University of Eastern Michigan, October 4, 1996.

  • "Contrasts", presentation at NASA Short Course, Virginia Beach, VA, November 19, 1996.

  • "The Corporate Observatorium: Sustaining Management Communication and Continuity in an Age of Complexity", presentation at 2nd World Conference on Integrated Design & Process Technology, Marriott Hotel, Austin, Texas, December 1-4, 1996

  • "Five Schools of Thought About Complexity: Implications for Design and Process Science", presentation at 2nd World Conf. Integrated Design & Process Technology, Marriott Hotel, Austin, Texas, December 1-4, 1996
  PRESENTATIONS, 1997

  • "Comments on Interactive Management", presentation for the Center for Scientific and Industrial Research, Accra, Ghana, January 7, 1997.

  • "The Alberts Pattern In Organizations", presentation for the Industrial and Systems Engineering Conference, ITESM, Campus Léon, Mexico, January 31, 1997.

  • "Complexity in Organizations", presentation to NASA engineers, Wallops Island, VA, February 5, 1997

  • "Case Studies in the Application of Interactive Management in Large Organizations: Government and Industry", presentation for the 4th Annual International Symposium on Industrial and Systems Engineering, ITESM, Campus Toluca, Mexico, February 28, 1997.

  • "Interpretive Structural Modeling in 1997", Invited PictureTel presentation to ITESM (Mexico) faculty and students, March 13, 1997, with assistance from Tim Huff, Graduate School of Business, George Mason University.

  • Participant, Workshop on Defense Acquisition Research, Defense Systems Management College, April 8-9, 1997.

  • "Complexity Management in Policy Design", AAAS Fellows Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science, May 13, 1997.

  • "Five Milestones in the History of Thought", presentation before the Association for Integrative Studies for October 23-26 Conference at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.on Saturday, October 25, 1997.

  • "Managing Complexity" lecture presented November 5, 1997, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, International Systems Thinking Conference and Workshops

  • "Managing Complexity Workshop" presented November 7th as an all-day session at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, International Systems Thinking Conference and Workshops

  PRESENTATIONS, 1998
  • "The Demands of Complexity Meet the Killer Assumptions", one-week short course at George Mason University, May 18-22, 1998.

  • "The Science of Complexity", one-week short course for faculty at ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico, June 8-12, 1998.

  • Presentations in China, July, 1998, Chinese Academy of Science and other organizations in Beijing and Shanghai.

  • "The Work Program of Complexity: Its Scientific Foundations and Practice", a series of four short courses for the Ford Motor Company, offered in Dearborn, MI, July-October, 1998.

  • "The Demands of Complexity Meet the Killer Assumptions", proposed for presentation at the Annual Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, New York, October, 1998.

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  Popularized Articles

  POPULARIZED ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE W. L. LIVINGSTON NEWSLETTER, "SHORT CIRCUIT":

  SHORT CIRCUIT("The Newsletter of Engineering Empowerment")

  First Issue, Autumn, 1992
  "Thinking In, and Not Thinking In Sets"

  Second Issue, Winter, 1992
  "So You Are A Good Modeler: NOT YET!"

  Third Issue, Spring, 1993
  "So You Believe X...WHY?"

  Fifth Issue, Winter, 1993
  "Organizations and Structural Thinking"

  POPULARIZED ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE CAROL SAGER NEWSLETTER "CRITICAL LINKAGES II" from the Center for Essential Linkages and Learning:

  Vol. 3, Number 2, April, 1996
  "Goldmining for Successful Teams Saves $ and Gets Results"

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