The Workshop is part of the International Conference of Computational Sciences ICCS2010 that this year will celebrate its 10th anniversary in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), May 31 - June 2, 2010.

Computational epidemiology is emerging as a new paradigm in the fight against infectious diseases. Next to the terrific developments in epidemiological, laboratory, immunological, genetic, and medical research, computational sciences are providing additional tools to the understanding of the disease dynamics at the population level. From the analysis of epidemic patterns, to the assessment of possible test scenarios to inform preparedness plans, to the use of sophisticate modeling approaches based on real data, computational epidemiology is proving to play an important role in epidemic science and in helping and supporting the decision process also in real time during public health emergencies. The H1N1 pandemic is a prominent example of how computational models allow closely watching the virus spreading, characterizing the observed pattern and proposing plausible scenarios for the future unfolding of the epidemic in the population.
The Workshop will bring together experts in the field of computational epidemiology to compare and evaluate the recent advances reached with the use of sophisticate data-driven modeling, and assess their role in informing public health decisions for preparedness planning and during epidemic emergencies.

Workshop Program Committee
Vittoria Colizza, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy
Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA & ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy
Dirk Brockmann, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Stefano Merler, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

The Workshop is partially sponsored by the EC projects EPIWORK and FLUMODCONT.

Call for papers

Papers for the Workshop ‘Frontiers in the computational modeling of disease spreading’ @ ICCS 2010 should be submitted through the ICCS2010 submission system, by selecting the appropriate workshop from the list. For more details, please visit the website:
http://www.iccs-meeting.org/

Important dates

Deadline for submission: extended to February 5, 2010
Notification of acceptance: February 22, 2010
Camera ready papers: March 1, 2010

Invited speakers

Dennis Chao, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Stefan Edlund, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA
Joshua Epstein*, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics,  The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA
Madhav Marathe, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, VA, USA
Markus Schwehm, ExploSYS, Institute for Explorative Modeling, Germany

*to be confirmed

Additional info

Please visit the ICCS2010 website.

Contact

Vittoria Colizza: vcolizza at isi.it