# Dynamic Network Analysis
**Entity class:** Computational analytic method
**Aliases:** DNA
**Maturity:** Developed
## Definition
**Dynamic Network Analysis** studies networks whose actors, relationships, knowledge, resources, and tasks change over time. It extends static “who knows whom” charts into a temporal, multi-entity model of how organizations adapt, fragment, and recover.
## Relationships
- **associated with:** [[wiki/Kathleen Carley|Kathleen Carley]].
- **ontology:** [[wiki/Meta-Matrix|Meta-Matrix]].
- **software:** [[wiki/ORA|ORA]].
- **extends:** [[wiki/Social Network Analysis|Social Network Analysis]] and [[wiki/Temporal Network|Temporal Network]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [Carnegie Mellon University — Kathleen Carley profile](https://s3d.cmu.edu/people/core-faculty/carley-kathleen.html)
- [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]