Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-47).AGNI is a tool developed to facilitate the analysis of communication networks between people in large organizations. Determining patterns of communication within organizations is critical to the analysis of the effectiveness of their structure. Until recently, large organizations presented a special problem. The copious amounts of data that had to be analyzed made the process slow and tedious. AGNI makes the job easier by automating many of the tasks involved in this process. It provides a user friendly graphical environment in which data can be collected and analyzed. It als...