BioSecure 2008: Raleigh, NC, USA

Informatics Infrastructure and Policy Considerations

• Henry Rolka, Jean C. O'Connor, David Walker:
  Public Health Information Fusion for Situation Awareness. 1-9
  
• Rebecca A. Hills, William B. Lober, Ian S. Painter:
  Biosurveillance, Case Reporting, and Decision Support: Public Health Interactions with a Health Information Exchange. 10-21
  
• Nancy Grady, Lowell Vizenor, Jeanne Sappington Marin, Laura Peitersen:
  Bio-surveillance Event Models, Open Source Intelligence, and the Semantic Web. 22-31
  
• Jiayuan Feng, Jianshi (Jesse) Huang, Angus Nicoll:
  Foresight China II: Identification and Detection of Infectious Diseases. 32-41
  
• Ivan J. Gotham, Linh H. Le, Debra L. Sottolano, Kathryn J. Schmit:
  Public Health Preparedness Informatics Infrastructure. A Case Study in Integrated Surveillance and Response: 2004-2005 National Influenza Vaccine Shortage. 42-55
  

Network-Based Data Analytics

• Purnamrita Sarkar, Lujie Chen, Artur Dubrawski:
  Dynamic Network Model for Predicting Occurrences of Salmonella at Food Facilities. 56-63
  
• Xiaolong Zheng, Daniel Zeng, Aaron Sun, Yuan Luo, Quanyi Wang, Fei-Yue Wang:
  Network-Based Analysis of Beijing SARS Data. 64-73
  
• Mario Vélez, Juan Ospina, Doracelly Hincapie:
  Tutte Polynomials and Topological Quantum Algorithms in Social Network Analysis for Epidemiology, Bio-surveillance and Bio-security. 74-84
  

Biosurveillance Models and Outbreak Detection

• Aurel Cami, Garrick L. Wallstrom, William R. Hogan:
  Integrating a Commuting Model with the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector. 85-96
  
• Xiaohui Kong, Garrick L. Wallstrom, William R. Hogan:
  A Temporal Extension of the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector. 97-107
  
• Jialan Que, Fu-Chiang Tsui, Jeremy Espino:
  A Z-Score Based Multi-level Spatial Clustering Algorithm for the Detection of Disease Outbreaks. 108-118
  
• Doracelly Hincapie, Juan Ospina, Anthony Uyi Afuwape, Ruben D. Gómez A.:
  Epidemic Thresholds in SIR and SIIR Models Applying an Algorithmic Method. 119-130
  
• Jarad Niemi, Meredith Smith, David Banks:
  Test Power for Drug Abuse Surveillance. 131-142
  

Model Assessment and Case Studies

• James H. Kaufman, Joanna L. Conant, Daniel Alexander Ford, Wakana Kirihata, Barbara Jones, Judith V. Douglas:
  Assessing the Accuracy of Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Models. 143-154
  
• Min Zhang, Xiaohui Kong, Garrick L. Wallstrom:
  Simulation of Multivariate Spatial-Temporal Outbreak Data for Detection Algorithm Evaluation. 155-163
  
• Yanhui Shen, Chu Jiang, Zhe Dun:
  Analysis and Prediction of Epidemiological Trend of Scarlet Fever from 1957 to 2004 in the Downtown Area of Beijing. 164-168
  

Environmental Biosurveillance and Case Studies

• Jean-Paul Chretien, Assaf Anyamba, Jennifer Small, Compton J. Tucker, Seth C. Britch, Kenneth J. Linthicum:
  Environmental Biosurveillance for Epidemic Prediction: Experience with Rift Valley Fever. 169-174
  
• Daniel Dajun Zeng, Ping Yan, Su Li:
  Spatial Regression-Based Environmental Analysis in Infectious Disease Informatics. 175-181