Daniel Zeng Knihy

Focusing on the advancements in disease surveillance, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of computer-based infectious disease surveillance systems. It evaluates their outbreak modeling and detection capabilities, offering a unified framework to assess the effectiveness of existing systems. Through detailed examination, it highlights the significant progress made in tracking and managing infectious diseases, making it a valuable resource for public health professionals and researchers.

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.

The 2007 NSF BioSurveillance Workshop built on the success of its predecessor, focusing on real-time data sharing and analysis for animal and public health surveillance. It gathered infectious disease informatics researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, including epidemiology, statistics, applied mathematics, information systems, computer science, and machine learning/data mining. The workshop aimed to achieve several objectives: reviewing real-time data sharing approaches for health surveillance from both technological and policy perspectives; identifying key technical challenges in syndromic surveillance for animal and human diseases; and providing a platform for collaboration among IDI researchers to explore future research opportunities. The event featured numerous contributions from global IDI research groups, comprising one invited presentation, 17 long papers, six short papers, and two posters. Jointly hosted by the University of Arizona, University of California, Davis, Rutgers University, and the University of Washington, the workshop fostered meaningful discussions and advancements in the field.