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Simulation-based Testbed for Bio-Surveillance Systems

Description

The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is funding multiple development efforts directed at enhanced platforms to support bio-surveillance analysts under their Bio-surveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) program. These efforts include well-integrated user interface systems and advanced algorithmic concepts to facilitate analysis of diverse, pertinent data sources including traditional bio-surveillance data sources as well as social media inputs. A central challenge in this development effort is a practical, effective, method to test these prototype systems. This presentation discusses a simulation-based testbed to allow quantitative evaluation of analytical methods through controlled injection of simulated outbreak-related information into test data streams.

Objective:

To develop a software toolset to serve as a flexible test environment for bio-surveillance systems by injecting controlled, simulation-based, data modifications into a variety of traditional and non-traditional bio-surveillance sources.

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