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A National Scale Microsimulation of Disease Outbreaks
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Our objective in this research is to take advantage of a supercomputer grid (TeraGrid) to develop a distributed memory national scale agent-based model (ABM) to study disease outbreaks at the micro level. This has data needs at both the national… read more… open scientific research. It is a network of nine partner sites, integrated through high-performance network … Each facility is a high-end experimental supercomputer site. The TeraGrid includes more than 250 Teraflops of … to build a model that can be distributed across several sites and synchronized effectively between sites to produce … -
ChatterGrabber: A Lightweight Easy to Use Social Media Surveillance Toolkit
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Despite numerous successes in using social media to detect food borne illness and to predict influenza trends, the use of social media as a public health tool has yet to gain widespread adoption. While social media data cannot directly diagnose… read more… as it is not dependent upon infected individuals seeking care for reportable illnesses and as such information is not … as it is not dependent upon infected individuals seeking care for reportable illnesses and as such information is not … -
in silico Surveillance: Highly detailed agent-based models for surveillance system evaluation and design
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Modern public health surveillance systems have great potential for improving public health. However, evaluating the performance of surveillance systems is challenging because examples of baseline disease distribution in the population are limited to… read more… seeking behavior and a surveillance system for outpatient visits. The resulting in silico surveil- lance data contain … specified surveillance system create a data stream of ILI visits. Outbreaks of influenza are artificially inserted …