Hierarchical Modeling

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Hierarchical Modeling

Hierarchical modeling is used to link a model (process) to one or more submodels (subprocesses), which can have submodels of their own. This technique is useful for modeling a high-level model, which then uses submodels to define the specific lower-level events of the model. It can also be used to combine separate models into one large model without recreating the work in Visio.

Any activity in a model can be linked to a separate submodel that defines the events that occur at that parent activity. The parent activity is linked to the submodel by defining a hyperlink for the activity that references the submodel, which resides on another page or in a different Visio document. To implement hierarchical modeling you need to define the hyperlink and understand the assumptions of hierarchical modeling.