|   | CMU-ISR-08-121 Institute for Software Research
 School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
 
    
     
 CMU-ISR-08-121
 
OraGIS and Loom: Spatial and TemporalExtensions to the ORA Analysis Platform
 
George B. David, Jamie Olson, Kathleen M. Carley 
June 2008  
Center for the Computational Analysis ofSocial and Organizational Systems (CASOS) Technical Report
 
CMU-ISR-08-121.pdf Keywords: Network analysis, GIS, geospatial, time series
 Increasingly, data available to network analysts includes not only 
relationships between actors but measurements of entity attributes and 
relations through time and space. Integrating this information
with existing dynamic network analysis techniques demands new models 
and tools. This paper introduces two extensions to the ORA dynamic 
network analysis platform intended to meet this need. The first, OraGIS, 
provides geospatial visualization and clustering algorithms. The second,
Loom, assists in the analysis of agent movements through a discrete state 
space (such as a set of named locations) over time. We discuss the 
capabilities of both tools and their integration with the traditional 
analytics in the ORA platform.
 
17 pages 
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