BThe 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 printable Call for Papers is available here in PDF format.

To be considered, all papers MUST be submitted through the EasyChair system. The online system is now open for submissions at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=biosecure2008

Key Objectives

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. 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.

Topic Coverage

• 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
• Bio-event detection from distributed data sources
• 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 here.

For paper submission questions, please contact Dr. Daniel Zeng, at zeng@email.arizona.edu.