"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.
"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:
"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 ountains 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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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):
"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.
"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.
"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 Tecnologicoy 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.
"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.