Identifying the Problem Structure. Part 1: General Concepts and Approaches

Complex practical problems arising in production, economic, and social systems are characterized by weak formalization, complex structure, network nature of conditions and goals, significant opacity, subjectivity, and dynamism. To solve such a problem, the latter must first be presented as a system of interconnected tasks. The building of such decompositions (structures) is also not a trivial task. The paper considers the concept of decomposition of a problem as a system, the concept of structure, types of structures as well as general algorithms and approaches to the decomposition.