ORA 2006: User's Guide

Abstract

ORA is a network analysis tool that detects risks or vulnerabilities of an organization's design structure. The design structure of an organization is the relationship among its personnel, knowledge, resources, and tasks entities. These entities and relationships are represented by the Meta-Matrix. Measures that take as input a Meta-Matrix are used to analyze the structural properties of an organization for potential risk. ORA contains over 50 measures which are categorized by which type of risk they detect. Measures are also organized by input requirements and by output. ORA generates formatted reports viewable on screen or in log files, and reads and writes networks in multiple data formats to be interoperable with existing network analysis packages. In addition, it has tools for graphically visualizing Meta-Matrix data and for optimizing a network's design structure. ORA uses a Java interface for ease of use, and a C++ computational backend.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA457301

Entities

People

  • Kathleen Carley
  • Matt Dereno

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Command And Control
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Mining
  • Data Sets
  • Data Visualization
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Link Analysis
  • Military Research
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Operations Research
  • Social Networks
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Statistical Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.