Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance

Long Papers.- Early Outbreak Detection Using an Automated Data Feed of Test Orders from a Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.- Chinese Chief Complaint Classification for Syndromic Surveillance.- Incorporating Geographical Contacts into Social Network Analysis for Contact Tracing in Epidemiology: A Study on Taiwan SARS Data.- A Model for Characterizing Annual Flu Cases.- Population Dynamics in the Elderly: The Need for Age-Adjustment in National BioSurveillance Systems.- Data Classification for Selection of Temporal Alerting Methods for Biosurveillance.- High Performance Computing for Disease Surveillance.- Towards Real Time Epidemiology: Data Assimilation, Modeling and Anomaly Detection of Health Surveillance Data Streams.- Algorithm Combination for Improved Performance in Biosurveillance Systems.- Decoupling Temporal Aberration Detection Algorithms for Enhanced Biosurveillance.- Assessing Seasonal Variation in Multisource Surveillance Data: Annual Harmonic Regression.- A Study into Detection of Bio-Events in Multiple Streams of Surveillance Data.- A Web-Based System for Infectious Disease Data Integration and Sharing: Evaluating Outcome, Task Performance Efficiency, User Information Satisfaction, and Usability.- Public Health Affinity Domain: A Standards-Based Surveillance System Solution.- The Influenza Data Summary: A Prototype Application for Visualizing National Influenza Activity.- Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Surveillance Using BioPortal.- Utilization of Predictive Mathematical Epidemiological Modeling in Crisis Preparedness Exercises.- Short Papers.- Ambulatory e-Prescribing: Evaluating a Novel Surveillance Data Source.- Detecting the Start of the Flu Season.- Syndromic Surveillance for Early Detection of Nosocomial Outbreaks.- A Bayesian Biosurveillance Method That Models Unknown Outbreak Diseases.- Spatial Epidemic Patterns Recognition Using Computer Algebra.- Detecting Conserved RNA Secondary Structures in Viral Genomes: The RADAR Approach.- Extended Abstracts.- Gemina: A Web-Based Epidemiology and Genomic Metadata System Designed to Identify Infectious Agents.- Internet APRS Data Utilization for Biosurveillance Applications.