arxivcs.SIcs.LG2026-06-28
Boundary Degree as a Node-level Feature for Epidemic Scenario Identification in Agent-based Cascade Simulations
Amro Alabsi Aljundi, Galen Harrison, Jiangzhuo Chen, Abhijin Adiga, Anil Kumar Vullikanti, Madhav V. Marathe
Characterizing the scenario underlying an epidemic from its disease cascade is an important task in simulation analytics. We propose boundary degree, the count of an infected node's contacts in the underlying contact network that were not infected, as a per-node cascade feature f…