System Dynamics Glossary
What is the meaning of Hierarchy?
Hierarchy is the principle according to which entities
meaningfully treated as wholes are built up of smaller entities
which are themselves wholes ... and so on. In hierarchy, emergent properties denote the levels (Checkland, 1993: 314).
Books
Related to Hierarchy
Bruce McNutt, "The Fractal Structure of Data Reference:
: Applications to the Memory Hierarchy (The Kluwer International Series
on Advances in Database Systems)".
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Fractal Structure of Data Reference: : Applications to the Memory
Hierarchy (The Kluwer International Series on Advances in Database Systems)
John
Coleman, "Conspirator's Hierarchy : The Committee of 300".
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on Conspirator's Hierarchy : The Committee of 300
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