Biosurveillance and Biosecurity

1. Front Matter

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2. Informatics Infrastructure and Policy Considerations

   1. Public Health Information Fusion for Situation Awareness

      • Henry Rolka, Jean C. O’Connor, David Walker

      Pages 1-9

   2. Biosurveillance, Case Reporting, and Decision Support: Public Health Interactions with a Health Information Exchange

      • Rebecca A. Hills, William B. Lober, Ian S. Painter

      Pages 10-21

   3. Bio-surveillance Event Models, Open Source Intelligence, and the Semantic Web

      • Nancy Grady, Lowell Vizenor, Jeanne Sappington Marin, Laura Peitersen

      Pages 22-31

   4. Foresight China II: Identification and Detection of Infectious Diseases

      • Jiayuan Feng, Jianshi (Jesse) Huang, Angus Nicoll

      Pages 32-41

   5. Public Health Preparedness Informatics Infrastructure. A Case Study in Integrated Surveillance and Response: 2004–2005 National Influenza Vaccine Shortage

      • Ivan J. Gotham, Linh H. Le, Debra L. Sottolano, Kathryn J. Schmit

      Pages 42-55

3. Network-Based Data Analytics

   1. Dynamic Network Model for Predicting Occurrences of Salmonella at Food Facilities

      • Purnamrita Sarkar, Lujie Chen, Artur Dubrawski

      Pages 56-63

   2. Network-Based Analysis of Beijing SARS Data

      • Xiaolong Zheng, Daniel Zeng, Aaron Sun, Yuan Luo, Quanyi Wang, Feiyue Wang

      Pages 64-73

   3. Tutte Polynomials and Topological Quantum Algorithms in Social Network Analysis for Epidemiology, Bio-surveillance and Bio-security

      • Mario Vélez, Juan Ospina, Doracelly Hincapié

      Pages 74-84

4. Biosurveillance Models and Outbreak Detection

   1. Integrating a Commuting Model with the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector

      • Aurel Cami, Garrick L. Wallstrom, William R. Hogan

      Pages 85-96

   2. A Temporal Extension of the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector

      • Xiaohui Kong, Garrick L. Wallstrom, William R. Hogan

      Pages 97-107

   3. A Z-Score Based Multi-level Spatial Clustering Algorithm for the Detection of Disease Outbreaks

      • Jialan Que, Fu-Chiang Tsui, Jeremy Espino

      Pages 108-118

   4. Epidemic Thresholds in SIR and SIIR Models Applying an Algorithmic Method

      • Doracelly Hincapié P., Juan Ospina G., Anthony Uyi Afuwape, Ruben D. Gómez A.

      Pages 119-130

   5. Test Power for Drug Abuse Surveillance

      • Jarad Niemi, Meredith Smith, David Banks

      Pages 131-142

5. Model Assessment and Case Studies

   1. Assessing the Accuracy of Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Models

      • James H. Kaufman, Joanna L. Conant, Daniel A. Ford, Wakana Kirihata, Barbara Jones, Judith V. Douglas

      Pages 143-154

   2. Simulation of Multivariate Spatial-Temporal Outbreak Data for Detection Algorithm Evaluation

      • Min Zhang, Xiaohui Kong, Garrick L. Wallstrom

      Pages 155-163

   3. Analysis and Prediction of Epidemiological Trend of Scarlet Fever from 1957 to 2004 in the Downtown Area of Beijing

      • Yanhui Shen, Chu Jiang, Zhe Dun

      Pages 164-168

6. Environmental Biosurveillance and Case Studies

   1. Environmental Biosurveillance for Epidemic Prediction: Experience with Rift Valley Fever

      • Jean-Paul Chretien, Assaf Anyamba, Jennifer Small, Compton J. Tucker, Seth C. Britch, Kenneth J. Linthicum

      Pages 169-174

   2. Spatial Regression-Based Environmental Analysis in Infectious Disease Informatics

      • Daniel D. Zeng, Ping Yan, Su Li

      Pages 175-181

7. Back Matter

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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.

• Bio-event detection
• Biosurveillance
• GIS
• HCI
• Information sharing
• Privacy
• Simulation
• Social networks
• algorithms
• biosecurity
• data analysis
• governance
• scalability
• security
• sustainability

• MIS Department, University of Arizona and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tucson, USA

  Daniel Zeng

• Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, USA

  Hsinchun Chen

• US CDC, National Center for Public Health Informatics, Atlanta, USA

  Henry Rolka

• University of Washington, Health Sciences Building, Seattle, USA

  Bill Lober

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