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enough nodes (twenty-one, for instance), the hierarchical organization (Figure 3.2) is

instantiated as an integrating node with hierarchical organizations as its components.

Each of these hierarchical suborganizations is again instantiated with its share of the

original nodes. When the number of nodes becomes small enough, the organization is

instantiated as a single integrating node with synthesizing nodes under it. If the number

of nodes is small enough to start with, of course, no composite components need to be

created. The synthesizing nodes are created right away. This is the case for five nodes,

for example.

3.3 Describing Organizationa ...