We consider an interconnected system S
omade of linear mulrivariable subsystems which are specified by matrix fractions with elements in a ring of stable scalar transfer functions

. Given that the

th subsystem is perturbed from

to

and that the system S
ois

-stable, we derive a computationally efficient necessary and sufficient condition for the

-stability, of the perturbed system. These fractional perturbations are more general than the conventional additive and multiplicative perturbations. The result is generalized to handle simultaneous perturbations of two or more subsystems.