ORA User's Guide 2011

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 100 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. The current version ORA1.2 software is available on the CASOS website: http://www.casos.ece.cmu.edu/projects/ORA/index.html.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 13, 2011
Accession Number
ADA550789

Entities

People

  • Dave Columbus
  • Jeff Reminga
  • Jon Storrick
  • Kathleen Carley

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Data Mining
  • Databases
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Network Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Social Media
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications