%C Ragusa, Italy %P 1-7 %T Refined theory of packages %A Max Tschaikowski %A Mirco Tribastone %X The fluid approximation for PEPA usually considers large populations of simple interacting sequential components characterised by small local state spaces. A natural question which arises is whether it is possible to extend this technique to composite processes with arbitrary large local state spaces. In [1] the authors were able to give a positive answer for a certain class of models. The current paper will enlarge this class. %D 2011 %L eprints2558