An alternate question is:

"Is interpretive structural modeling considered a systems engineering formal method/"

Yet another alternate question is:

"Is operations research considered part of systems engineering?"

Adding to the list of alternate questions:

"What semantic technologies are being applied in systems engineering research?"

Another alternative question format:

"What system engineering and science techniques mix logical and empirical information sources?"

Another alternative question:

"Is any one using interpretive structural modeling, developed by John N. Warfield, to structure and analyze complex systems?"

If you're interested in Interpretive Structural Modeling from a larger context than just John N. Warfield, you might also look down the branch developed by Aleco Christakis. Some of that shows up in Structured Dialogic Design, e.g. http://www.globalagoras.org/what-we-do/agora-reflections/sdd-process-review/ .

One route is through Peter H. Jones at http://www.redesignresearch.com/publications.html . I notice Jones, PH, Christakis, AN., and Flanagan, TR. (2007). Dialogic design for the intelligent enterprise: Collaborative strategy, process, and action. In Proceedings of INCOSE 2007, San Diego, June 25-29.

David:

Thanks for the information and pointers.

Peter H. Jones and Kevin Dye have been contacted to explore collaborative activity.

Some positive progress may happen next year.

Take care, be good to yourself and have fun,

Joe

Very interesting question and discussion.