V. I. Tsurkov ,   B. B. Kolotilin ,   I. S. Litvinchev Sov. J. Comput. Syst. Sci. , vol.27 No.2 , 01.1989 , p. 53-59, language: английский ISSN 0882-4002  Аннотация The deployment of information-and-computer equipment in a three-level star network that is optimal in the sense of the minimum of expenditures, when the network response time to a client query is limited, is examined. A procedure of decomposition according to the levels of the hierarchy is proposed for solving the obtained large-scale integer-valued problem. The exposition is illustrated by the example of the automated information-processing network of the savings banks of the city of Moscow.  Ключевые слова three-level star network; decomposition; large-scale integer-valued problem; automated information-processing network