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2025

2024

  • Abdelghaffar, H.M., S.F.A. Batista, Rehman, A., J. Cao, M. Menendez and S. Jabari (2024) Comparison of probabilistic cruising-for-parking time estimation models, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 184 (2024): 104064. 10.1016/j.tra.2024.104064.
  • Abdelghaffar, H., Menendez, M. (2024) Influential control parameters for autonomous vehicles in a mixed environment. IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology. 5 (2024): 927-939. 10.1109/OJVT.2024.3426989. 
  • Abouzied, A., Beasley, C. (2024) Pipe(line) Dreams: Fully Automated End-to-End Analysis and Visualization. Association for Computing Machinery. 10.1145/3665939.366596.
  • Al-Gergawi, A., Al-Memari, M., Vaughan, G., Burt, J. A. (2024). The growing role of women in coral reef research in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Biological Conservation, 289, 110411. 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110411.
  • Balsa-Barreiro, J., Cebrián, M., Menéndez, M., Axhausen, K. (2024). Leveraging Generative AI Models in Urban Science. Principles and Advances in Population Neuroscience, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Vol. 68: 239-275.  DOI: 10.1007/7854_2024_482.
  • Balsa-Barreiro, J., Menendez, M. (2024). How cities influence social behavior. In: Paus, T. and Kum, H.-C. (Eds.), Digital Ethology: Human Behavior in Geospatial Context; Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 33, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 139-157. DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/15532.003.0013.
  • Weigle, J. Balsa-Barreiro, N. Chawla, T. David-Barrett, M. Melchior, V. Pallante, A. Sarker and J. Gilliland (2024). Characterizing social environments in the physical and virtual words using digital data. In: Paus, T. and Kum, H.-C. (Eds.), Digital Ethology: Human Behavior in Geospatial Context; Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 33, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 51-78. DOI:10.7551/mitpress/15532.003.0008.
  • Greene, H.C., Makovi, K., Abdul-Mumin, R., Bansal, A., Frimpong, J.A. (2024) Challenges in the distribution of antimicrobial medications in community dispensaries in Accra, Ghana. Plos One Journal. May 29, 2024. 10.1371/journal.pone.0281699. 
  • Dahy B, Al-Memari M, Al-Gergawi A and Burt JA (2024) Remote sensing of 50 years of coastal urbanization and environmental change in the Arabian Gulf: a systematic review. Front. Remote Sens. 5:1422910. 10.3389/frsen.2024.1422910
  • Diabat, A., Bianchessi, N., and Archetti, C. (2024) On the zero-inventory-ordering policy in the inventory routing problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 312(3), pp.1024-1038. 10.1016/j.ejor.2023.07.013.
  • Deng, H., Q. Hu, CH. Guan, Y.S. Chen,  Menendez, M. (2024) Building a government-owned open data platform for connected and autonomous vehicles, Cities, 149 (2024): 104918. 10.1016/j.cities.2024.104918.
  • Dutta Roy, A., Pitumpe Arachchige, P. S., Watt, M. S., Kale, A., Davies, M., Burt, J. A., et al. (2024) Remote sensing-based mangrove blue carbon assessment in the Asia-Pacific: A systematic review. Science of the Total Environment, 938, 173270. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173270
  • Firth, L. B., Bone, J., Bartholomew, A., Bishop, M. J., Bugnot, A., Bulleri, F., Burt, J. A, Knights, A. M. (2024). Coastal greening of grey infrastructure: an update on the state-of-the-art. Maritime Engineering. 10.1680/jmaen.2023.003
  • Genser, A., Makridis, M. A., Yang, K., Ambühl, L., Menendez, M., Kouvelas, A. (2024). Time-to-Green predictions for fully-actuated signal control systems with supervised learning. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 25 (7): 7417-7430. 10.1109/TITS.2023.3348634.
  • Helbing, D., S. Mahajan, D. Carpentras, M. Menendez, E. Pournaras, S. Thurner, T. Verma, E. Arcaute, M. Batty and L.M.A. Bettencourt (2024) Editorial: Co-creating the future: Participatory cities and digital governance, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 382 (2285): 20240113.
  • Khan, Z.S. and M. Menendez (2024) A seamless bus network without external transfers using autonomous modular vehicles, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 168 (2024): 104822.
  • Laouenan, M., Bhargava, P., Eyméoud, J.B., Gergaud, O., Plique, G. and Wasmer, E., (2024). A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD. Scientific Data, 9(1), p.290. 10.21410/7E4/RDAG3O. 
  • Mannem, K., Mengiste, E., Hasan, S., García de Soto, B., Sacks, R. (2024) Smart audio signal classification for tracking of construction tasks. Science Direct. Volume 165, September 2024, 105485. 10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105485.
  • Mantha, B. Sonkor, M.S., García de Soto, B. (2024). Investigation of the Cyber Vulnerabilities of Construction Networks Using an Agent-Based Model. Developments in the Built Environment. Vol. 18. 10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100452.
  • Mengiste, E., Mannem, K. R., Prieto, S. A., Garcia de Soto, B. (2024). Transfer-Learning and Texture Features for Recognition of the Conditions of Construction Materials with Small Data Sets. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 38(1), 04023036. 10.1061/JCCEE5.CPENG-5478.
  • Mulumba, T., Diabat A. (2024) Optimization of the drone-assisted pickup and delivery problem, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 181: 103377, 10.1016/j.tre.2023.103377.
  • Oudah, M., Makovi, K., Gray, K., Battu, B., Rahwan, T. (2024) Perception of experience influences altruism, and perception of agency influences trust in human-machine interactions. Scientific Reports. 2024. 10.1038/s41598-024-63360-w.
  • Parn, E., Ghadiminia, N., García de Soto, B., Oti-Sarpong, K. (2024). A Perfect Storm: Digital Twins, Cybersecurity, and General Contracting Firms. Developments in the Built Environment. 10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100466
  • Prieto, S. A., Xu, X., Garcia de Soto, B. (2024). A Guide for Construction Practitioners to Integrate Robotic Systems in Their Construction Applications. Frontiers in Built Environment-Construction Management, vol. 10. 10.3389/fbuil.2024.1307728.
  • Prieto, S.A., Giakoumidis, N., García de Soto, B. (2024). Multi-agent robotic systems and exploration algorithms: Applications for data collection in construction sites. Journal of Field Robotics. 10.1002/rob.22316.
  • Saavedra, M., A.P. Muñuzuri, Menendez, M., Balsa-Barreiro, J. (2024) Analyzing macroscopic traffic rhythms and city size in affluent cities: Insights from a global panel data of 25 cities, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (accepted). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2024.0102
  • Shurrab, S., Guerra-Manzanares, A. & E. Shamout, F. Multimodal masked siamese network improves chest X-ray representation learning. Sci Rep 14, 22516 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-74043-x
  • Sonkor, M.S. and García de Soto, B. (2024). Using ChatGPT in Construction Projects: Unveiling Its Cybersecurity Risks Through a Bibliometric Analysis. International Journal of Construction Management. 10.1080/15623599.2024.2355782.
  • Singh, I., Celik, K. (2024) Influence of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (scCO2) Curing on Carbonation and Strength Development of Brucite Recovered from Desalination Reject Brine. Journal of CO2 Utilization, vol. 79, 2024, 102657, 10.1016/j.jcou.2023.102657. 
  • Sun, S., Batista, S. F. A., Menéndez, M., Wang, Y., Zhang, S. (2024). Powering up urban mobility: A comparative study of energy efficiency in electric and diesel buses across various lane configurations. Sustainable Cities and Society, 101, 105086. 10.1016/j.scs.2023.105086.
  • Thonnam Thodi, B., Ambadipudi, S., and Jabari, S.E. (2024) Fourier neural operator for learning weak solutions of nonlinear scalar hyperbolic PDEs: Numerical experiments and generalization results. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 10.48550/arXiv.2302.08144.
  • Yao, D., and García de Soto, B. (2024). Cyber Risk Assessment Framework for the Construction Industry Using Machine Learning Techniques. Buildings 14, no. 6: 1561. 10.3390/buildings14061561.
  • Xu, Y., Coplin, A., Su, P. H., & Makovi, K. (2024). Contested membership: experimental evidence on the treatment of return migrants to mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–22. 10.1080/1369183X.2024.2332743. 
  • Wang, D., Bazzi, A., Chafii, M. (2024) Joint Target Detection and Localization RIS-aided Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Submitted), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370570727_RIS-aided_integrated_sensing_and_communication_a_mini-review
  • Wang, Y., Li, W., Sarkar, E., Shafique, M., Maniatakos, M., Jabari, S.E. (2024). A Subspace Projective Clustering Approach for Backdoor Attack Detection and Mitigation in Deep Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 10.3389/frsip.2023.1197240.
  • Wang, Y., Li, W., Alam, M., Maniatakos, M., and Jabari, S.E. (2024). Backdozer: A backdoor detection methodology for DRL-based traffic controllers. ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems. Accepted. 10.1145/3639828.
  • Wang, Y., Sarkar, E., Jabari, S.E., and Maniatakos, M. (2024). On the vulnerability of deep reinforcement learning to backdoor attacks in autonomous vehicles. In: Embedded Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical, IoT, and Edge Computing. Springer, New York. 10.1007/978-3-031-40677-5_13.
  • Wu, K., García de Soto, B. (2024). Spatio-temporal optimization of construction elevator planning in high-rise building projects. Developments in the Built Environment, vol. 17. 10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100328.
  • Wu, K., Prieto, S.A., Mengiste, E., García de Soto, B. (2024). Automated Quality Inspection of Formwork Systems Using 3D Point Cloud Data. Buildings, 14(4), 1177. 10.3390/buildings14041177. 
  • Mai, A. Wang, P. Abouzied, A., Brucato, M., Haas, J.P., Meliou, A. (2024) Scaling Package Queries to a Billion Tuples via Hierarchical Partitioning and Customized Optimization. In: Proc. VLDB Endow. 10.14778/3641204.3641222.
  • Mannino, M., Garcia, J., Hazim, R., Abouzied, A., Papotti, P. (2024) Data Void Exploits: Tracking & Mitigation Strategies. In Proc CIKM. 
  • Jabari, S.E. (2024) Countering adversarial perturbations in graphs using error correcting codes. Physical Review E., v.  110, 044304. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.044304.
  • Kargar-Barzi, A., Farahmand, E., Chatrudi., N. T.,  Mahani, A., Shafique, M. (2024) An Edge-based WiFi Fingerprinting Indoor Localization Using Convolutional Neural Network and Convolutional Auto-Encoder. IEEE Access. 10.48550/arXiv.2303.03699.
  • Yao, D., and García de Soto, B. (2024). Assessing Cyber Risks in Construction Projects: A Machine Learning-Centric Approach. Journal of Developments in the Built Environment. 10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100570.

2023

  • Abascal, M., Makovi, K., Xu, Y. (2023) Politics, not vulnerability: Republicans discriminated against Chinese-born Americans throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, 1-22. 10.1017/rep.2022.28.
  • Abdelghaffar, H., M. Chaqfeh, N. Fejzic, T. Rahwan, Y. Zaki, M. Menendez (2023) Leveraging autonomous vehicles to tally cooperative driving behavior, IEEE Access, 11: 25455-25466. 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3231134.
  • Ambühl, L., Menendez, M., González, M. C. (2023). Understanding congestion propagation by combining percolation theory with the macroscopic fundamental diagram. Communications Physics, 6(1), 26. 10.3929/ethz-b-000584669.
  • Atkins, R. M., Hernández-Lagos, P., Jara-Figueroa, C., Seamans, R. (2023). JUE Insight: What is the impact of opportunity zones on job postings? Journal of Urban Economics, 103545. 10.1016/j.jue.2023.103545.
  • Ayyagari, R., Chen, Q., de Soto, B. G. (2023). Quantifying the impact of concrete 3D printing on the construction supply chain. Automation in Construction, 155, 105032. 10.1016/j.autcon.2023.105032.
  • Balsa-Barreiro, J., P.M Valero-Mora, Menendez, M., R. Mehmood (2023) Extraction of naturalistic driving patterns with geographic information systems, Mobile Networks and Applications, 28 (2023): 619-635. 10.1007/s11036-020-01653-w. 
  • Balsa-Barreiro, J., Wang, S., Tu, J., Li, Y., Menendez, M. (2023). The nexus between innovation and environmental sustainability. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11, 1194703. 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1194703.
  • Batista, S. F., Ameli, M., Menéndez, M. (2023). On the Characterization of Eco-Friendly Paths for Regional Networks. IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 4, 204-215. 10.1109/OJITS.2023.3254886.
  • Bramich, D. M., Menéndez, M., Ambühl, L. (2023). FitFun: A modelling framework for successfully capturing the functional form and noise of observed traffic flow–density–speed relationships. Transportation research part C: emerging technologies, 151, 104068. 10.1016/j.trc.2023.104068.
  • Dahy, B., Issa, S., Saleous, N. (2023). Geo-spatial modelling of carbon stock assessment of date palm at different age stages: An integrated approach of fieldwork, remote sensing and GIS. Ecological Modelling, 481, 110377. 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110377.
  • Genser, A., Makridis, M. A., Yang, K., Abmühl, L., Menendez, M., Kouvelas, A. (2023). A traffic signal and loop detector dataset of an urban intersection regulated by a fully actuated signal control system. Data in brief, 48, 109117. 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109117.
  • Gopee, M. A., Prieto, S. A., García de Soto, B. (2023). Improving autonomous robotic navigation using IFC files. Construction Robotics, 1-17. 10.1007/s41693-023-00112-8.
  • Guglielminetti, E., Lalive, R., Ruh, P. and Wasmer, E., (2023) Home sweet home? Job search with commuting and unemployment insurance. Hal Open Science, hal-03950253. LINK.
  • Guerra-Manzanares, A., Lopez, L. J. L., Maniatakos, M., Shamout, F. E. (2023). Privacy-preserving machine learning for healthcare: open challenges and future perspectives. International Workshop on Trustworthy Machine Learning for Healthcare, 25-40. 10.1007/978-3-031-39539-0_3.
  • Gyorgy, A., Marlow, T., Abrahao, B., Makovi, K. (2023). Segregated mobility patterns amplify neighborhood disparities in the spread of COVID-19. Network Science, 1-20. 10.1017/nws.2023.6.
  • Guesmi, A., Hanif, M.A., and Shafique, M. (2023) Advrain: Adversarial raindrops to attack camera-based smart vision systems. Information Journal: Special Section on Artificial Intelligence-Security and Privacy for Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges. 10.48550/arXiv.2303.01338.
  • Hay, R., Celik, K. (2023). Effects of water-to-binder ratios (w/b) and superplasticizer on physicochemical, microstructural, and mechanical evolution of limestone calcined clay cement (LC3). Construction and Building Materials, 391, 131529. 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.131529.
  • Hay, R., Celik, K. (2023). Performance enhancement and characterization of limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) produced with low-reactivity kaolinitic clay. Construction and Building Materials, 392, 131831. 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.131831.
  • Hay, R., Khalil, A., Otchere, C., Alanis, S., Celik, K. (2023). Proportioning, Carbonation, Performance Assessment, and Application of Reactive Magnesium Oxide Cement–Based Composites with Superplasticizers. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 35(2), 04022405. 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0004552. 
  • Hay, R., Peng, B., Celik, K. (2023). 3D shape analysis of lunar regolith simulants. Powder Technology, Volume 426, 118621. 10.1016/j.powtec.2023.118621.
  • Hay, R., Khalil, A., Otchere, C., Alanis, S., Celik, K. (2023). Proportioning, performance assessment, and architectural application of reactive magnesium oxide (MgO) cement (RMC)-based mixture. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Volume 35(2), 04022405. 10.1061/(ASCE) MT.1943-5533.0004552.
  • Hay, R., Peng, B., Celik, K. (2023). Filler effects of CaCO3 polymorphs derived from limestone and seashell on hydration and carbonation of reactive magnesium oxide (MgO) cement (RMC). Cement and Concrete Research, 164, 107040. 10.1016/j.cemconres.2022.107040. 
  • Ibrahim, H. etal. (2023) Perception, performance and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses, Scientific Reports, 13:12187. 10.1038/s41598-023-38964-3. 
  • Imbs, J., Pauwels, L. (2023). An empirical approximation of the effects of trade sanctions with an application to Russia. Economic Policy, eiad027.10.1093/epolic/eiad027.
  • Kantheepan, Y., Chen, Q., García de Soto, B. (2023). Utilizing Augmented Reality for The Assembly and Disassembly of Panelized Construction, Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon). 10.36680/j.itcon.2023.030.
  • Khan, Z. S., Menendez, M. (2023). Bus Splitting Bus Holding: A New Strategy Using Autonomous Modular Buses For Preventing Bus Bunching,​ Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 177 (2023): 103825. 10.2139/ssrn.4356986.
  • Khan, Z. S., He, W., Menéndez, M. (2023). Application of modular vehicle technology to mitigate bus bunching. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 146, 103953. 10.1016/j.trc.2022.103953.
  • Khelifati, A., Khayati, M., Dignös, A., Difallah, D., & Cudré-Mauroux, P. Benchmarking Time Series Database Systems for Monitoring Applications. VLDB Endowment, Volume 16(11), 3363-3376. 10.14778/3611479.3611532.
  • Liu, H., Yang, M., Guan, C., Chen, Y. S., Keith, M., You, M., Menendez, M. (2023). Urban infrastructure design principles for connected and autonomous vehicles: a case study of Oxford, UK. Computational Urban Science, 3(1), 34.10.1007/s43762-023-00110-0.
  • Liu, J., Zheng, F., Wei, M., Bai, L., Jabari, S. (2023). A Linearizing Transformation-Based Evaluation Approach of the Fundamental Diagram. Transportation Research Record, 03611981231166385. 10.1177/03611981231166385.
  • Mai, A., Brucateo, M., Abouzied, A., Haas, P.J, Meliou, A. (2023). Scaling Package Queries to a Billion Tuples via Hierarchical Partitioning and Customized Optimization. ArXiv preprint arXiv:2307.02860. 10.48550/arXiv.2307.02860.
  • Mai, A., Gupta, N., Abouzied, A., Shasha, D. (2023). Planning multiple epidemic interventions with reinforcement learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.12802. 10.48550/arXiv.2301.12802. 
  • Makovi, K., Sargsyan, A., Li, W., Bonnefon, J.F., Rahwan, T.  (2023) Trust within human-machine collectives depends on the perceived consensus about cooperative norms. Nature Communications, 14:3108. 10.1038/s41467-023-38592-5.
  • Marchisio, A., Nanfa, G., Khalid, F., Hanif, M. A., Martina, M., Shafique, M. (2023). SeVuc: A study on the Security Vulnerabilities of Capsule Networks against adversarial attacks. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 96, 104738.10.1016/j.micpro.2022.104738.
  • Marlow, T., Makovi, K. (2023). Non-transformative climate policy options decrease conservative support for renewable energy in the US. Environmental Research Letters, 18(2), 024002. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acaf3c. 10.1088/1748-9326/acaf3c/meta.
  • Marlow, T., Makovi, K., Abrahao, B. (2023) Durable change in U.S. urban mobility networks 2019-2022, Socius, 9. 10.1177/23780231231198857.
  • Mirza, S., Begum, L., Niu, L., Pardo, S., Abouzied, A., Papotti, P., Pöpper, Ch. (2023) Tactics, Threats & Targets: Modeling Disinformation and its Mitigation. The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) (accepted). DOI: 10.14722/ndss.2023.23657. 10.14722/ndss.2023.23657
  • Nujoom, R. Mohammed, A., Diabat, A. (2023) Manufacturing system reconfiguration towards sustainable production: a novel hybrid optimization methodology. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30(51), pp.110687-110714. 10.1007/s11356-023-29233-x.
  • Peng, B., Hay, R., Celik, K. (2023). 3D shape analysis of lunar regolith simulants. Powder Technology, 426, 118621. h10.1016/j.powtec.2023.118621.
  • Prieto, S. A., Mengiste, E. T., Garcia de Soto, B. (2023). Investigating the use of ChatGPT for the scheduling of construction projects. Buildings, 13(4), 857.doi.org/10.3390/buildings13040857.
  • Rondon, M., Ewane, E.B., Abdullah, M.M., Watt, M.S., Blanton, A., Abulibdeh, A., Burt J.A., Rogers, K., Ali, T., Reef, R., Mohtar, R., Sidik, F., Fahrenberg, M., de-Miguel, S., Galgamuwa, G.A.P., Charabi, Y.A.R, Arachchige, P.S.P., Velasquez-Camacho, L.F., Al-Awadhi, T., King, S., Srinivasan, S., Jaafar, W., Montenegro, J.F., Karakasidou, E., Pons, J., Abbady, M.J., Cardil, A., Doaemo, W., Mohan, M. (2023) Remote sensing-based assessment of mangrove ecosystems in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: a systematic review. Frontiers in Marine Science 10. 10.3389/fmars.2023.1241928
  • Tilg, G., Ambühl, L., Batista, S. F., Menéndez, M., Leclercq, L., Busch, F. (2023). From Corridor to Network Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams: A Semi-Analytical Approximation Approach. Transportation Science, 57(5), 1115-1133. 10.1287/trsc.2022.0402.
  • Tollefson, J., Frickel, S., Gonsalves, S., Marlow, T. (2023). Parks, People, and Pollution: A Relational Study of Socio Environmental Succession. City & Community, 15356841231152616. 10.1177/15356841231152616.

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