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PANDORA: Deep Graph Learning Based COVID-19 Infection Risk Level Forecasting
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst. Computational Social Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 11(1):717-730 Feb, 2024
Subject
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
General Topics for Engineers
COVID-19
Forecasting
Pandemics
Transportation
Task analysis
Economics
Predictive models
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
deep graph learning
forecasting
infection risk
network motif
Language
ISSN
2329-924X
2373-7476
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a global pandemic causes a massive disruption to social stability that threatens human life and the economy. An effective forecasting system is arguably important to provide an early signal of the risk of COVID-19 infection so that the authorities are ready to protect the people from the worst. However, making a good forecasting model for infection risks in different cities or regions is not an easy task, because it has a lot of influential factors that are difficult to be identified manually. To address the current limitations, we propose a deep graph learning model, called PANDORA, to predict the infection risks of COVID-19, by considering all essential factors and integrating them into a geographical network. The framework uses geographical position relationships and transportation frequency as higher order structural properties formulated by higher order network structures (i.e., network motifs). Moreover, four significant node attributes (i.e., multiple features of a particular area, including climate, medical condition, economy, and human mobility) are also considered. We propose three different aggregators to better aggregate node attributes and structural features, namely, Hadamard, Summation, and Connection. Experimental results over real data show that PANDORA outperforms the baseline methods with higher accuracy and faster convergence speed, no matter which aggregator is chosen.