The connections or links are explicit in the hierarchical model.

The supervisory board also reorganized the company's operations on a more hierarchical model.

"The movement is away from the strict, hierarchical model," he said.

But we still insist on the old hierarchical models in the classroom.

Hence the structure can be more time-consuming to build than a traditional hierarchical model.

Data which can be modeled well using a hierarchical model.

Now imagine a slightly more complicated hierarchical model as follows:

In the hierarchical model, records are linked in the form of an organization chart.

The above structure can be seen in the hierarchical model, which is one way to organize data in a database.

Calls are classified using a hierarchical model known as "problem profiles."