ong (12 pages) and short (6 pages) papers (in English) have been published in the workshop proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer.

A Poster Session will be held following the Workshop Sessions, and will include the Conference Reception. All authors and presenters are asked to participate and to post their slides prior to the Poster Session (a formal poster is not required). The display boards will hold up to 16 individual PowerPoint slides (horizontal orientation) or up to 12 individual slides (vertical orientation). Each presentation will be alloted one display board and table space.

The paper submission site has now been closed. Instructions for submitting final, formatted papers and copyright permissions have been emailed to authors.

Workshop topics solicited included:

Data sources for biosurveillance, data quality and utility
Data sharing protocols and implementation of secure health information exchange solutions
Biosurveillance system architecture and interoperability
Text processing for chief complaint/syndrome classification
Bio-event detection from distributed data sources
Outbreak detection and predictive modeling
Spatio-temporal data analysis/GIS for biosurveillance applications
Integrated genomic and epidemiological data analysis
Disease-specific modeling and surveillance issues
HCI and user interfaces of relevance to biosurveillance systems
System evaluation, scalability, and sustainability
Communication and decision support for public health, crisis planning, and disaster management
Outcome measures for biosurveillance
Funding and public/private partnerships
Information sharing policy and governance
Privacy and system security issues