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The Zachman Framework

Populated with Baseball Models

Rick Botta1 Jesse Daniels1 and Terry Bahill1,2,*

1BAE SYSTEMS, 10920 Technology Place, San Diego, CA 92127

2Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0020

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed (e-mail terry@sie.arizona.edu).

Running head: Models of Baseball

Key words: systems analysis, enterprise architecture, science of baseball, modeling methodology

ABSTRACT

There are guidelines for making good models. Amongst these are frameworks, which help people organize integrated models of their enterprises. This organization helps ensure interoperability of systems and helps control the cost of developing systems. The Zachman framework for enterprise architecture is a six by six classification schema, where the six rows represent different perspectives of the enterprise and the six columns illustrate different aspects. In this paper, a Zachman framework is populated with models for Baseball. These models should be easy to understand without a steep learning curve. Most of the cells in this example are filled with quantitative simulatable models that have been published in peer reviewed journal papers. The other cells are filled with simple thought models. Jacques Barzun (1954) wrote, “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.” From the perspective of the Zachman framework, the way to learn Baseball is to define the models within the framework, as presented in this paper.

1. FRAMEWORKS AND ORGANIZED MODELS

Frameworks help people organize integrated models of their enterprises. Several popular frameworks have been used to architect enterprises, such as the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF), the Treasury Enterprise Architecture Framework (TEAF), the ANSI/IEEE 1471 Standard [Maier, Emery and Hilliard, 2004] and the...