This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Biosurveillance and Biosecurity, BioSecure 2008, held in Raleigh, NC, USA, in December 2008. The 18 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on informatics infrastructure and policy considerations; network-based data analytics; biosurveillance models and outbreak detection; model assessment and case studies; environmental biosurveillance and case studies.

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Hsinchun Chen is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the Eller College of the University of Arizona and Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year (1999). He is the author of 15 books and more than 200 articles covering knowledge management, digital library, homeland security, Web computing, and biomedical informatics in leading information technology publications. He serves on ten editorial boards, including: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, International Journal of Digital Library, and Decision Support Systems. He has served as a Scientific Advisor/Counselor of the National Library of Medicine (USA), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and National Library of China (China). Dr. Chen founded The University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1990. The group is distinguished for its applied and high-impact AI research. Since 1990, Dr. Chen has received more than $20M in research funding from various government agencies and major corporations. He has been a PI of the NSF Digital Library Initiative Program and the NIH NLM s Biomedical Informatics Program. His group has developed advanced medical digital library and data and text mining techniques for gene pathway and disease informatics analysis and visualization since 1995. Dr. Chen s nanotechnology patent analysis works, funded by NSF, have been published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. His research findings were used in the President s Council of Advisors in Science and Technology s report on "The National Nanotechnology Initiative at Five Years: Assessment and Recommendations of the National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel." Dr. Chen s work also has been recognized by major US corporations and been awarded numerous industry awards for his contribution to IT education and research, including: ATT Foundation Award in Science and Engineering and SAP Award in Research/Applications. Dr. Chen has been heavily involved in fostering digital library, medical informatics, knowledge management, and intelligence informatics research and education in the US and internationally. He has been a PI for more than 20 NSF and NIH research grants since 1990. Dr. Chen is conference chair of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2004 and has served as the conference general chair or international program committee chair for the past six International Conferences of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), 1998-2005. He has been instrumental in fostering the ICADL activities in Asia. Dr. Chen is the founder and also conference co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2003-2006. The ISI conference has become the premiere meeting for international, national, and homeland security IT research. Dr. Chen is an IEEE fellow.

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Informatics Infrastructure and Policy Considerations.- Public Health Information Fusion for Situation Awareness.- Biosurveillance, Case Reporting, and Decision Support: Public Health Interactions with a Health Information Exchange.- Bio-surveillance Event Models, Open Source Intelligence, and the Semantic Web.- Foresight China II: Identification and Detection of Infectious Diseases.- Public Health Preparedness Informatics Infrastructure. A Case Study in Integrated Surveillance and Response: 20042005 National Influenza Vaccine Shortage.- Network-Based Data Analytics.- Dynamic Network Model for Predicting Occurrences of Salmonella at Food Facilities.- Network-Based Analysis of Beijing SARS Data.- Tutte Polynomials and Topological Quantum Algorithms in Social Network Analysis for Epidemiology, Bio-surveillance and Bio-security.- Biosurveillance Models and Outbreak Detection.- Integrating a Commuting Model with the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector.- A Temporal Extension of the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector.- A Z-Score Based Multi-level Spatial Clustering Algorithm for the Detection of Disease Outbreaks.- Epidemic Thresholds in SIR and SIIR Models Applying an Algorithmic Method.- Test Power for Drug Abuse Surveillance.- Model Assessment and Case Studies.- Assessing the Accuracy of Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Models.- Simulation of Multivariate Spatial-Temporal Outbreak Data for Detection Algorithm Evaluation.- Analysis and Prediction of Epidemiological Trend of Scarlet Fever from 1957 to 2004 in the Downtown Area of Beijing.- Environmental Biosurveillance and Case Studies.- Environmental Biosurveillance for Epidemic Prediction: Experience with Rift Valley Fever.- Spatial Regression-Based Environmental Analysis in Infectious Disease Informatics.