TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward an interoperable dynamic network analysis toolkit
AU - Carley, Kathleen M.
AU - Diesner, Jana
AU - Reminga, Jeffrey
AU - Tsvetovat, Maksim
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), United States Navy Grant No. N00014-02-10973 on Dynamic Network Analysis, Grant No. N00014-97-1-0037 on Adaptive Architecture, the DOD, the NSF MKIDS program, the DOD, the CIA, and the NSF IGERT program in CASOS. Additional support was provided by CASOS and ISRI at Carnegie Mellon University. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Office of Naval Research, the DOD, the National Science Foundation, or the U.S. government. We thank Dan Wood for his help with data processing and reviewing.
PY - 2007/8
Y1 - 2007/8
N2 - To facilitate the analysis of real and simulated data on groups, organizations and societies, tools and measures are needed that can handle relational or network data that is multi-mode, multi-link and multi-time period in which nodes and edges have attributes with possible data errors and missing data. The integrated CASOS dynamic network analysis toolkit described in this paper is an interoperable set of scalable software tools. These tools form a toolchain that facilitate the dynamic extraction, analysis, visualization and reasoning about key actors, hidden groups, vulnerabilities and changes in such data at varying levels of fidelity. We present these tools and illustrate their capabilities using data collected from a series of 368 texts on an organizational system interfaced with covert networks in the Middle East.
AB - To facilitate the analysis of real and simulated data on groups, organizations and societies, tools and measures are needed that can handle relational or network data that is multi-mode, multi-link and multi-time period in which nodes and edges have attributes with possible data errors and missing data. The integrated CASOS dynamic network analysis toolkit described in this paper is an interoperable set of scalable software tools. These tools form a toolchain that facilitate the dynamic extraction, analysis, visualization and reasoning about key actors, hidden groups, vulnerabilities and changes in such data at varying levels of fidelity. We present these tools and illustrate their capabilities using data collected from a series of 368 texts on an organizational system interfaced with covert networks in the Middle East.
KW - Counter-terrorism
KW - Dynamic network analysis
KW - Integrated CASOS toolset
KW - Interoperability
KW - Link analysis
KW - Meta-matrix model
KW - Social network analysis software
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U2 - 10.1016/j.dss.2006.04.003
DO - 10.1016/j.dss.2006.04.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34547683560
VL - 43
SP - 1324
EP - 1347
JO - Decision Support Systems
JF - Decision Support Systems
SN - 0167-9236
IS - 4
ER -