Public health information fusion for situation awareness

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5354 LNBI, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-9

  Rolka, Henry ^a   O'Connor, Jean C ^a   Walker, David ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioterrorism; Fusion; Public health; Situation awareness

Indexed keywords

BIOTERRORISM; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDCP); FUSION; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HURRICANE KATRINA; INFORMATION EXCHANGING; INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS; INFORMATION SOURCE (IS); POLICY DEVELOPMENTS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS); SITUATION AWARENESS; TERRORIST ATTACKS; TIME INFORMATION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION FUSION; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 58549118065     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89746-0_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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