The purpose of the Analytic Solutions Committe (ASC) - formerly the Technical Conventions Committee (TCC) - is to facilitate and expedite the development, evaluation, and implementation of technical methods for public health surveillance by:

• Collecting, classifying, posting use cases (problem descriptions, requests for assistance) from public health professionals.
• Discussing use cases as needed in open forums to derive well-defined technical problems of practical interest.
• Obtaining or deriving benchmark datasets corresponding to use case problems.
• Documenting problems in template form as with available benchmark datasets.
• Disseminating completed use case templates to the community of solution developers.
• Validating submitted solution methods based on results submitted by developer (is it understandable, does it do what it says, etc).
• Disseminating solution methods to user community and assisting with documentation.

Visit the group's home page for past meeting materials.