5.6 Consider Relationships to Others ↑
Model element: Composition
One form of cooperation happens when a larger type of thing is composed of a number of smaller types of things. These could be atoms within a molecule, cells in an organism, states in a nation, departments in a company, or individual humans within a team.
In all of these cases, some function is achieved or improved through joint cooperative composition.
In this sort of composition, the component pieces generally exhibit some degree of specialization.