TY - JOUR AU - Larocque, Gerald AU - Locke, Taylor AU - Lee, Micah AU - Kite-Powell, Aaron PY - 2014/03/09 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Simulation-based Testbed for Bio-Surveillance Systems JF - Online Journal of Public Health Informatics JA - OJPHI VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Lightning Talks DO - 10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5167 UR - https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/5167 SP - AB - 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. ER -