Student Information for Frantz, Terrill L.

Name: Frantz, Terrill L.
Homepage: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~terrill/
Email: terrillfrantz[AT]cmu.edu
Research Keywords: dynamic network analysis, organizational dynamics, mergers, ORA
Affiliation: CASOS
Research:

• Core Research:
  • Organizational Mergers. Develop computational models and computer simulations designed to evaluate management integration strategies of workforce and socio-technical systems by focusing on organization performance, when combining separate organizations in a merger, acquisition, joint venture or alliance. This research pertains to common combinations such as business mergers as well as to broader, less formal alliances, such as a rebuilding a country, as in the recent case of Iraq.
  • Organization Change. Develop computational models of organization behavior and dynamics to aid in the evaluation of intervention and management strategies designed to improve organization performance.
  • Organization Networks. Utilize social network analysis techniques to assess the internal social and knowledge networks in an organization to evaluate organizational health and uncover opportunities for organizational change and improved performance.
  
  
• Supplemental Research:
  • Statistical Methods for Social Network Analysis. Develop statistical techniques for making data inference in social networks under condition of missing data. Enron Email Corpus. Conduct analysis of the real-world Enron Email corpus to develop generalized organization theory.
  • Network Visualization. Develop techniques and software for visualizing large social networks datasets. Web Services Software. Develop web-based software services for social network analysis.
  
  
  
  Publications:
  
  Diesner, Jana & Frantz, Terrill & Carley, Kathleen M . (2005). Communication Networks from the Enron Email Corpus, "It's Always About the People. Enron is no Different". Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 11, 201-228. [pdf]
  
  Frantz, Terrill & Carley, Kathleen M . (2005). Treemaps as a Tool for Social Network Analysis. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research International, Technical Report, CMU-ISRI-05-118, [pdf]
  
  Frantz, Terrill & Carley, Kathleen M . (2005). A Formal Characterization of Cellular Networks. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research International, Technical Report CMU-ISRI-05-109, [pdf]
  
  Frantz, Terrill & Carley, Kathleen M & Diesner, Jana. (2005). An Automated Methodology for Conducting a Social Network Study of a University. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research International, Technical Report CMU-ISRI-05-106, [pdf]
  
  Frantz, Terrill & Carley, Kathleen M . (2005). Relating Network Topology to the Robustness of Centrality Measures. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research International, Technical Report CMU-ISRI-05-117, [pdf]
  
  Frantz, Terrill & Cataldo, Marcelo & Carley, Kathleen M . (2006). Given Error: Evidence for the Construction of Confidence Intervals Around Network Measures. Presented at International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, April 24-30 2006, Vancouver, BC, []
  
  Weil, Shawn A & Foster, Pacey & Freeman, Jared & Carley, Kathleen M & Diesner, Jana & Frantz, Terrill & Cooke, Nancy J & Shope, Steve & Goorman, James. (2007). Converging approaches to automated communications-based assessment of team situation awareness. Macrocognition in Teams, Ashgate: United Kingdom. [pdf]
  
  Frantz, Terrill & Carley, Kathleen M . (2007). The Impact of Knowledge Misrepresentation on Organization Performance Dynamics. North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Sciences, NAACSOS2007 Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA, 7-9 June 2007, [pdf]
  
  Frantz, Terrill & Carley, Kathleen M . (2008). CEMAP II: An Architecture and Specifications to Facilitate the Importing of Real-World Data into the CASOS Software Suite. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research, Technical Report CMU-ISR-08-130, [pdf]
  
  Frantz, Terrill & Carley, Kathleen M . (2009). Harvesting Ego-Network Data from Facebook: Using the CEMAP Facebook Profile in ORA. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research, Technical Report CMU-ISR-09-102., [pdf]
  
  Carley, Kathleen M & Frantz, Terrill. (2009). CEMAP: General Usage Guide. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research, Technical Report CMU-ISR-09-116., [pdf]
  
  

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