Research Core

项目总结（见说明）： 上下文分析核心（CONAC）的使命是提供资源，如咨询复杂的方法，所需的组件项目执行多级建模和空间分析。 这一使命将通过三个具体目标来实现，每个目标都侧重于与组成项目有关的背景分析的一个具体方面。这些目标包括最先进的地理空间分析服务，社会和地理网络建设和分析援助，以及多层次的分析服务。由约翰·H。Holmes博士和Charles Branas博士，CONCAC将利用宾夕法尼亚大学制图建模实验室（CML）提供的现有资源。CML支持各种各样的地理、地理空间和网络建模软件、专用硬件，由专家人员管理，以协助COE调查人员进行分析。此外，CONAC将为调查人员提供统计支持，以进行专业和高级的多层次和地理空间分析。最后，将使用专门的数据挖掘工具来协助变量选择和其他知识发现任务。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): The mission of the Contextual Analysis Core (CONAC) is to provide resources, such as consultation on complex methods, needed by the component projects to perform multilevel modeling and spatial analysis. This mission will be met by three specific aims, each of which focuses on a specific aspect of contextual analysis pertinent to the component projects. These aims include state-of-the art services for geospatial analysis, assistance with social and geographical network construction and analysis, and multi-level analysis services. Led by John H. Holmes, PhD and Charles Branas, PhD, the CONCAC will leverage existing resources available through the Cartographic Modeling Lab (CML) at the University of Pennsylvania. The CML supports a wide variety of geographic, geospatial, and network modeling software, specialized hardware, administered by expert staff to assist the COE investigators with their analysis. In addition, the CONAC will provide investigators with statistical support for specialized and advanced multilevel and geospatial analyses. Finally, specialized data mining tools will be used to assist with variable selection and other knowledge discovery tasks.