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Partitioning
Suppose we have a long cord that is kinked and apparently knotted. We can, after some work, remove all the apparent knots to have an unkinked cord. If there is also a tightly knotted clump somewhere along the cord, we can still unravel the entire cord. This clump is in its proper topological place along the cord. But, we cannot unwrap it.
We call this unraveling process of topological reordering DSM spreadsheet rows and columns partitioning. In any reordering of a DSM spreadsheet, we move both a row and its corresponding column together the same amount in the same way. Partitioning identifies the elements in circuits and clusters them into blocks. DSM spreadsheet reordering might not completely eliminate circuits, but it minimizes ...
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