By P. J. Courtois
Communications of the ACM,
June 1985,
Vol. 28 No. 6, Pages 590-603
10.1145/3812.3814
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Models of large and complex systems can often be reduced to smaller sub-models, for easier analysis, by a process known as decomposition. Certain criteria for successful decompositions can be established.
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