Institute for Software Research
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
ORA user's Guide 2010
Kathleen M. Carley, Jeff Reminga, Jon Storrick, Dave Columbus
June 2010
Center for the Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems
CASOS Technical Report
This document supersedes Institute for Software Research
Technical Report CMU-ISR-09-115
"Ora User's Guide 2009", June 2009
ORA is a network analysis tool that detects risks or vulnerabilities
of an organizationls 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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