An Epidemiologic Modeling and data integration framework

work a cellular automaton software package for simulating different infectious diseases, storing the simulation results in a data warehouse system, and analyzing the obtained results in order to generate predictions models or contingency plans is proposed. The Brisbane H3N2 flu virus, which has been spreading this winter season, was used for spreading simulation in federal state of Tyrol. The simulation-modeling framework consists of an underlying cellular automaton. The generated data are stored in the back room of the data warehouse using the Talend Open Stu- dio software package, and subsequent statistical and data mining tasks are performed using the Knowledge Discovery in Database Designer (KD 3 ). The obtained simulation results were used for generating prediction models for all nine federal States of Austria, and were compared to flu out- breaks in the past.