Modular co-ordination : the real cost factors

After an extensive study sponsored by the Science Research Council in the U.K., the author, with colleagues T. Cornick and J. Kelly, analysed the true cost factors of modular co-ordination. Much of the information was derived also from research in other countries through the International Modular Group/CIB W24, of which the author is a member. Briefly, he concludes that the assumed cost disadvantages — and many of the expected advantages — are related to factors other than modular co-ordination itself.