Biosurveillance and Biosecurity : International Workshop, BioSecure 2008, Raleigh, NC, USA, December 2, 2008. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Henry Rolka, Jean C. O’Connor, David Walker (auth.), Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, Henry Rolka, Bill Lober (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5354 : Security and Cryptology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Biosurveillance and Biosecurity, BioSecure 2008, held in Raleigh, NC, USA, in December 2008.

The 18 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on informatics infrastructure and policy considerations; network-based data analytics; biosurveillance models and outbreak detection; model assessment and case studies; environmental biosurveillance and case studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Public Health Information Fusion for Situation Awareness....Pages 1-9
Biosurveillance, Case Reporting, and Decision Support: Public Health Interactions with a Health Information Exchange....Pages 10-21
Bio-surveillance Event Models, Open Source Intelligence, and the Semantic Web....Pages 22-31
Foresight China II: Identification and Detection of Infectious Diseases....Pages 32-41
Public Health Preparedness Informatics Infrastructure. A Case Study in Integrated Surveillance and Response: 2004–2005 National Influenza Vaccine Shortage....Pages 42-55
Dynamic Network Model for Predicting Occurrences of Salmonella at Food Facilities....Pages 56-63
Network-Based Analysis of Beijing SARS Data....Pages 64-73
Tutte Polynomials and Topological Quantum Algorithms in Social Network Analysis for Epidemiology, Bio-surveillance and Bio-security....Pages 74-84
Integrating a Commuting Model with the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector....Pages 85-96
A Temporal Extension of the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector....Pages 97-107
A Z-Score Based Multi-level Spatial Clustering Algorithm for the Detection of Disease Outbreaks....Pages 108-118
Epidemic Thresholds in SIR and SIIR Models Applying an Algorithmic Method....Pages 119-130
Test Power for Drug Abuse Surveillance....Pages 131-142
Assessing the Accuracy of Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Models....Pages 143-154
Simulation of Multivariate Spatial-Temporal Outbreak Data for Detection Algorithm Evaluation....Pages 155-163
Analysis and Prediction of Epidemiological Trend of Scarlet Fever from 1957 to 2004 in the Downtown Area of Beijing....Pages 164-168
Environmental Biosurveillance for Epidemic Prediction: Experience with Rift Valley Fever....Pages 169-174
Spatial Regression-Based Environmental Analysis in Infectious Disease Informatics....Pages 175-181
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Computers and Society; Management of Computing and Information Systems; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Database Management