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Title: Data resources and sample applications for information analysis in CW and BW defense

Abstract

This is the final report of a one-year, Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The objective of this project was to identify representative problems in chemical warfare (CW) and biological warfare (BW) defense to which LANL`s information analysis capabilities can be applied. In particular, the focus was on methods for detecting the outbreak of diseases and predicting their evolution. The authors found that a number of disease models can be expressed in a common form, and that these models can be transformed in a way that allows their parameters to be estimated on-line in a computationally efficient manner. Using this technique, diseases could be tracked in an automated and cost-effective manner. However, the greatest needs in this area are epidemiological models that account for spatial and transport aspects of disease spread. Also, there is great potential for the mining of morbidity and disease data in order to identify similar cases that may indicate an emerging disease or an attack.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
515600
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-97-1851
ON: DE97008341; TRN: AHC29718%%115
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: [1997]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; NATIONAL DEFENSE; DISEASES; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS

Citation Formats

Buescher, K L, Howse, J W, Liu, L C, and Pedersen, P S. Data resources and sample applications for information analysis in CW and BW defense. United States: N. p., 1997. Web. doi:10.2172/515600.
Buescher, K L, Howse, J W, Liu, L C, & Pedersen, P S. Data resources and sample applications for information analysis in CW and BW defense. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/515600
Buescher, K L, Howse, J W, Liu, L C, and Pedersen, P S. 1997. "Data resources and sample applications for information analysis in CW and BW defense". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/515600. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/515600.
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title = {Data resources and sample applications for information analysis in CW and BW defense},
author = {Buescher, K L and Howse, J W and Liu, L C and Pedersen, P S},
abstractNote = {This is the final report of a one-year, Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The objective of this project was to identify representative problems in chemical warfare (CW) and biological warfare (BW) defense to which LANL`s information analysis capabilities can be applied. In particular, the focus was on methods for detecting the outbreak of diseases and predicting their evolution. The authors found that a number of disease models can be expressed in a common form, and that these models can be transformed in a way that allows their parameters to be estimated on-line in a computationally efficient manner. Using this technique, diseases could be tracked in an automated and cost-effective manner. However, the greatest needs in this area are epidemiological models that account for spatial and transport aspects of disease spread. Also, there is great potential for the mining of morbidity and disease data in order to identify similar cases that may indicate an emerging disease or an attack.},
doi = {10.2172/515600},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/515600}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997},
month = {Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997}
}