The four-domain architecture: An approach to support enterprise architecture design

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 587-597

  Iyer, B ^a   Gottlieb, R ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN; FOUR DOMAIN ARCHITECTURE (FDA); ZACHMAN FRAMEWORK;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 7544228193     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.433.0587     Document Type: Article

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