BioSecure 2008

BioSecure 2008 Biosurveillance and Biosecurity Workshop: Systems and Algorithms Raleigh, North Carolina, December 2, 2008

Pre-Conference Workshop @ 2008 ISDS Seventh Annual Conference

http://ai.arizona.edu/BIO2008/

The 2008 Biosurveillance and Biosecurity Workshop (BioSecure 08) will be held as part of the pre-conference workshop series at the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) Seventh Annual Conference. BioSecure 08 will be a one-day event scheduled on December 2, 2008.

The specific emphasis of this workshop is to encourage information and computer science (including informatics, statistics, modeling and decision sciences, data management, and IT) researchers to join the public health surveillance and biosecurity community to conduct high-impact and innovative research.

--- Important Dates --- - Paper submissions due:     August 15, 2008 - Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2008 - Camera-ready copy due:     September 17, 2008 - Conference date:           December 2, 2008

--- Workshop Background ---

This workshop series started in 2006. The inaugural meeting was held in Tucson, Arizona, hosted by the University of Arizona. It attracted more than 35 participants from academic institutions, industry, and public health agencies, and achieved its objective of bringing together infectious disease informatics (IDI) researchers and practitioners to discuss selected topics directly relevant to data sharing and analysis for real-time animal and public health surveillance. The 2007 meeting was held in New Brunswick, New Jersey, co-located with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, and met with tremendous success. Researchers from a wide range of backgrounds including biosecurity, epidemiology, statistics, applied mathematics, information systems, computer science and machine learning/data mining, contributed formal papers to the workshop and actively participated in the meeting along with practitioners from both government agencies and industry. More than 65 people attended the one-day workshop, representing major research labs across multiple disciplines, key industry players, and a range of government entities. The proceedings of the 2007 meeting was published in the prestigious Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

-- Key Objectives of BioSecure 08 --

Building on the success of the past two meetings, BioSecure 08 aims to achieve the following objectives: (a) review and examine various real-time data sharing approaches for health surveillance and biosecurity from both technological and policy perspectives; and (b) discuss and compare various systems approaches and algorithms of relevance to biosurveillance and biosecurity. A formal publication with the Springer LNCS is being planned.

-- Topic Coverage --

The list below provides sample topics of relevance.

- Biosurveillance and biosecurity system architecture and interoperability - Bio-event detection from distributed data sources - Spatio-temporal data analysis/GIS for biosurveillance and biosecurity applications - Social network analysis for biosecurity - HCI and user interfaces of relevance to biosurveillance systems - System evaluation, scalability, and sustainability - Information sharing policy and governance - Privacy and system security issues - Case studies and technology adoption

Long (12 pages) and short (6 pages) papers in English may be submitted electronically via the workshop website after July 25, 2008. Required Springer LNCS Microsoft Word/LaTeX templates can be found on the workshop website.

-- Workshop Hosts --

- University of Arizona - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - University of Washington

- Workshop Sponsors -

- U.S. National Science Foundation - IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (pending)

-- Workshop Co-Chairs --

- Hsinchun Chen, U. of Arizona - Henry Rolka, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Daniel Zeng, U. of Arizona & Chinese Academy of Sciences - Bill Lober, U. of Washington

--- Government Liaisons ---

- Sylvia Spengler, U.S. National Science Foundation (tentative) - Donald Noah, U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Daniel M. Sosin, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

- Program Committee -

- David Banks, Duke Univ. - John Berezowski, Alberta (Canada) Agriculture - Ian Brooks, U. of Illinois at U-C - David L. Buckeridge, McGill University - Howard Burkom, Johns Hopkins U. - Jean-Paul Chretien, US DoD - Dan Desmond, SIMI Group - Daniel Ford, IBM - Ron Fricker, Naval Postgraduate School - Ivan Gotham, New York State Dept. of Health - Valerie Gregg, U. of Albany - Paul Hu, U. of Utah - Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Drexel U. - Jesse Huang, Peking Union Medical College - C.-C. King, National Taiwan Univ. - Ken Kleinman, Harvard U. - Ken Komatsu, Arizona Dept. of Health Services - Eileen Koski, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated - Sheri Lewis, Johns Hopkins Univ. - Cecil Lynch, Ontoreason - Colleen Martin, US CDC - Jean O'Connor, US CDC - Theresa Pardo, U. of Albany - Michelle Podgornik, US DHS & CDC - Ben Reis, MIT - Debbie Travers, North Carolina Public Health Information Network - David Walker, US CDC - Quanyi Wang, Beijing CDC - Xiaohui Zhang, Scientific Technologies Corp.	 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP