title: IntegraEPI: a Grid-based epidemic surveillance system.
abstract: The proposal of new analytical techniques has guided innovative methodological developments in public health interventions. The goal of this work is show advances in the development of a large scale system for space-time visualization, monitoring, modeling and analysis of epidemic data using a Grid platform. The resulting virtual laboratory, dubbed IntegraEPI, is expected to provide better epidemic forecasting and to define better strategies to fight the spread of a disease, in which new population-level interventions could be evaluated and iteratively refined using computational simulations, with tangible benefits for real-world epidemic prevention and control efforts.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Mestrado em Informática,UNISANTOS, Santos, Brazil. fabricio@unisantos.br
authors.forename: Fabricio A B
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Henrique F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Gagliardi
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gallo
authors.forename: Maria A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Madope
authors.forename: Virgílio C
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: Neto
authors.forename: Ivan T
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Pisa
authors.forename: Domingos
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alves
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011159:Population Surveillance