Looking beyond smart cities

Ramentol, M.B.; Atchade-Adelomou, P.; Mora-Carrero, A.; Larson, K.; Alonso-Pastor, L.; Domenech, M. The Andorra Scenario Engine: A Data-Grounded Framework for Policy-Oriented National Development Planning. Urban Sci. 2026, 10, 450. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci10080450

Gabriela Bila Advincula and Jonny Cohen. 2026. Ancestral Craft and Emerging Technologies: Designing Futures from Place. In Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Spatial Storytelling (SIGGRAPH Spatial Storytelling '26), July 19--23, 2026, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA 3 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3799822.3812473

Palomo-Briones, G.A. et al. (2026). CityScope Guadalajara: An Integrative City-Science-Based Tool for Improving Decision Making in Urban Planning. In: Yang, Z., von Briesen, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas. CSSSA 2024. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-21596-3_1

Leticia Izquierdo Garcia, Miguel Ureña-Pliego, Adrian Mora-Carrero, and Kent Larson. 2026. My Digital Twin Walks the City: Decisional Symmetry in Human—Agent Urban Navigation. In Companion Publication of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 194–204. https://doi.org/10.1145/3802974.3809415

Rico, A., & Larson, K. (2026). Making Sense of Sensors: Improving LLM Interpretation of Time-Series Data. AI Sensors, 2(2), 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/aisens2020007

Cohen, J. A., Shimizu, K., Song, A., Bharath, V., Maes, P., & Larson, K. (2026, March). Do Robots Need Body Language? Comparing Communication Modalities for Legible Motion Intent in Human-Shared Spaces. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 322-326).

Izquierdo, L., Nawyn, J. & Larson, K. "Comparative assessment of women’s safety and mobility research methods in informal neighborhoods." npj Urban Sustain (2026).

Rico, A., Izquierdo, L., Delgado, E. et al. The challenges, methods, and opportunities of understanding informal urbanism: a case study in Lomas del Centinela, Mexico. npj Urban Sustain 6, 35 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-026-00360-x

Sanchez, N. C., & Larson, K. (2025). Understanding demand for shared autonomous micro-mobility. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 149, 105018.

Naroa Coretti Sanchez, Kent Larson, Understanding demand for shared autonomous micro-mobility, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 149, 2025, 105018, ISSN 1361-9209

Berke A, Calacci D, Pentland A, Larson K (2025) Evaluating Amazon effects and the limited impact of COVID-19 with purchases crowdsourced from US consumers. PLoS One 20(11): e0336571. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336571

Leticia Izquierdo, Gabriela Bìlá, Maitane Iruretagoyena, and Kent Larson. 2025. The Community Carbon Impact: Engaging Visitors in Urban Sustainability. interactions 32, 6 (November - December 2025), 12–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3769006

Chance Jiajie Li, Zhenze Mo, Yuhan Tang, Ao Qu, Jiayi Wu, Kaiya Ivy Zhao, Yulu Gan, Jie Fan, Jiangbo Yu, Hang Jiang, Paul Pu Liang, Jinhua Zhao, Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson. (2026). HugAgent: A Human Simulation Benchmark for Individual-Level Reasoning. EMNLP 2026, Oral Presentation.

Platnick, D., Gruener, M., Alirezaie, M., Larson, K., Newman, D.J., Rahnama, H. (2026). Perspective-Aware AI in Extended Reality. In: De Paolis, L.T., Arpaia, P., Sacco, M. (eds) Extended Reality. XR Salento 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15743. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97781-7_7

Rico, Andres. "De dispositivos inteligentes a comunidades inteligentes." Ixaya. Revista Universitaria de Desarrollo Social. 29 de Agosto del 2025 15.29 (2025): 151-165.

Chance Jiajie Li, Jiayi Wu, Zhenze Mo, Ao Qu, Yuhan Tang, Kaiya Ivy Zhao, Yulu Gan, Jie Fan, Jiangbo Yu, Jinhua Zhao, Paul Pu Liang, Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson. (2025). Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought. NeurIPS 2025.

Atchade-Adelomou, Parfait, and Laia Coronas Sala. "A Quantum Strategy for the Simulation of Large Proteins: From Fragmentation in Small Proteins to Scalability in Complex Systems." Electronics 14.13 (2025): 2601.

C. Adornetto et al., "Generative Agents in Agent-Based Modeling: Overview, Validation, and Emerging Challenges," in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, doi: 10.1109/TAI.2025.3566362.

Eduardo Bilbao Pavón, Luis Alonso Pastor, Alejandro Padilla, Mayra Gamboa, Kent Larson, Predicting mobility choice and community connectivity in Latin America, Case Studies on Transport Policy, Volume 19, 2025,

I. A. Urrutia, N. C. Sanchez, D. Antonelli, L. Alonso and K. Larson, "Mode Choice Modeling for Sustainable Regional Commuting Using Machine Learning: A Case Study in Gipuzkoa, Spain," 2024 IEEE 27th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2024, pp. 2125-2130, doi: 10.1109/ITSC58415.2024.10919588.

Balderas-Cejudo, A., Iruretagoyena, M., Alonso, L., Church, M., Izquierdo, L., Hill, I., & Larson, K. (2025). Gastronomy and Beyond: A collaborative Initiative for Rethinking Food’s Role in Society, Sustainability, and Territory. International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, 101118.

Berke, A., Larson, K., Pentland, S. and Calacci, D., 2025. Measuring risks inherent to our digital economies using Amazon purchase histories from US consumers. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.18774.

City Science: Process. Internet Archive, uploaded by Internet Archive, archive.org/details/city‑science‑process. Accessed 15 July 2025.

Coretti Sanchez, N. and Larson, K., 2024. Multifunctional lightweight autonomous vehicles: an agent-based study. Transportation, pp.1-35.

Sanchez, N.C. and Larson, K., 2024. Shared autonomous micro-mobility for walkable cities. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 27, p.101236.

Alex Berke, Robert Mahari, Sandy Pentland, Kent Larson, and Dana Calacci. 2024. Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 466 (November 2024), 48 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687005

Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Chapter 3 - Mobile phones and their use to study dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic, Editor(s): Rajkumar Rajendram, Victor R. Preedy, Vinood B. Patel, Features, Transmission, Detection, and Case Studies in COVID-19, Academic Press, 2024, Pages 25-37, ISBN 9780323956468, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95646-8.00049-4

Berke, A., Calacci, D., Mahari, R. Yabe, T., Larson, K., & Pentland, S. Open e-commerce 1.0, five years of crowdsourced U.S. Amazon purchase histories with user demographics. Sci Data 11, 491 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03329-6

Coretti-Sanchez, N., et al. "Urban Mobility Swarms: Towards a Decentralized Autonomous Bicycle-Sharing System." 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE, 2023.

Parfait Atchade-Adelomou, et al. Fourier Series Weight in Quantum Machine Learning. Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 2024;4(1):108.

Luo, Yan, et al. "TransFlower: An Explainable Transformer-Based Model with Flow-to-Flow Attention for Commuting Flow Prediction." arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.15398 (2024).

Gonzalez, Saul, and Parfait Atchade-Adelomou. "Quantum improvement in Spatial Discretization." arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.09036 (2023).

Herzog, R. H., Gonçalves, J. E., Slingerland, G., Kleinhans, R., Prang, H., Brazier, F., & Verma, T. (2024). Cities for citizens! Public value spheres for understanding conflicts in urban planning. Urban Studies, 61(7), 1327-1344. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231207475

Berke, A., Truitt, W., Larson, K. (2023). Is access to public bike-share networks equitable? A multiyear spatial analysis across 5 U.S. Cities. Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 114, 2024, 103759, ISSN 0966-6923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103759.

Atchade-Adelomou, Parfait, and Saul Gonzalez. "Efficient quantum modular arithmetics for the ISQ era." arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08555 (2023).

Rico, A., Larson, K. & Gamboa, M. Sensor platform for assessment of water usage patterns in informal settlements. Sci Rep 13, 18958 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46236-3

Alex Berke, Tobin South, Robert Mahari, Kent Larson, and Alex Pentland. 2024. Poster: zkTax: A Pragmatic Way to Support Zero-Knowledge Tax Disclosures. In Proceedings of Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’24). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3658644.3691421

Alex Berke, Geoffrey Ding, Christopher Chin, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Kent Larson, Hamsa Balakrishnan, Max Z. Li, Drone delivery and the value of customer privacy: A discrete choice experiment with U.S. consumers, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 157, 2023, 104391, ISSN 0968-090X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2023.104391.

Rico, Andres, and Kent Larson. Technology Roadmap: The Internet of Forests. Self-published, 1 Oct. 2023.

Yan Luo, Haoyi Duan, Ye Liu, and Fu-lai Chung. 2023. Timestamps as Prompts for Geography-Aware Location Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’23), October 21–25, 2023, Birmingham, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3583780.3615083

Luo, Y., Liu, Y., Chung, F. L., Liu, Y., & Chen, C. W. (2023). End-to-End Personalized Next Location Recommendation via Contrastive User Preference Modeling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12507.

Berke, A., & Larson, K. (2023). The negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels: Results from randomized controlled experiments with US consumers. Appetite. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106767

E. C. Ferrer, I. Berman, A. Kapitonov, V. Manaenko, M. Chernyaev and P. Tarasov, "Gaka-Chu: A Self-Employed Autonomous Robot Artist," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 11583-11589, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160866.

Perry, Eyal, et al. "How to grow (almost) anything: a hybrid distance learning model for global laboratory-based synthetic biology education." Nature Biotechnology (2022): 1-6.

Naroa Coretti Sanchez, Luis Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson, Can autonomy make bicycle-sharing systems more sustainable? An environmental impact analysis, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 113, 2022, 103489, ISSN 1361-9209, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103489

A. Rico, S. Prasad and K. Larson, "A low-cost, open-source, and distributed ocean profiling sensor node," 2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS), 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881243.

Wang, Xinran and Iruretagoyena, Maitane and Pastor, Luis Alonso and Larson, Kent, Taxonomy of Informality: Methodology for Establishing Multi-Dimension Global Informal Indicators to Be Used on the Informality Crowd-Sourced Database. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4149958 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4149958

Sanchez, Naroa Coretti, et al. "On the performance of shared autonomous bicycles: A simulation study." Communications in Transportation Research 2 (2022): 100066

Naroa Coretti Sanchez, Iñigo Martinez, Luis Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson, "On the simulation of shared autonomous micro-mobility", Communications in Transportation Research, Volume 2 (2022): 100065, ISSN 2772-4247, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commtr.2022.100065

Rico Medina, Andres. “Socio-Environmental Sensor Networks for Community Sensing.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, 2022.

Berke, A., Doorley, R., Alfonso, L., & Larson, K. (2022). Preserving Sustainability Gains of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of MIT Campus Commuting. Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221088776

Alex Berke, Ronan Doorley, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro. 2022. Generating synthetic mobility data for a realistic population with RNNs to improve utility and privacy. In Proceedings of The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ’22). 955-959. https://doi.org/10.1145/3477314.3507230

Rico, Andres, Carson Smuts, and Kent Larson. "Chameleon: Adaptive Sensor Intelligence for Smart Buildings." IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2022).

Ding, G., Berke, A., Gopalakrishnan, K., Degue, K., Balakrishnan, H., & Li, M. (2022). Routing with Privacy for Drone Package Delivery Systems. International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT) 2022.

Alex Berke and Dan Calacci. 2022. Privacy Limitations of Interest-based Advertising on The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis of Google’s FLoC. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’22), November 7–11, 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3548606.3560626

Berke A, Doorley R, Alonso L, Arroyo V, Pons M, & Larson, K. (2022) Using mobile phone data to estimate dynamic population changes and improve the understanding of a pandemic: A case study in Andorra. PLOS ONE 17(4): e0264860. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264860

E. C. Ferrer, E. Jiménez, J. L. Lopez-Presa and J. Martín-Rueda, "Following Leaders in Byzantine Multirobot Systems by Using Blockchain Technology," in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, doi: 10.1109/TRO.2021.3104243.

González, J. M., Sánchez, N. C., Llop, P. G. M., Pastor, L. A., & Larson, K. (2021, October). Dynamic V2V power-sharing for collaborative fleets of autonomous vehicles. In 2021 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC) (pp. 408-413). IEEE

Advincula, Larson 2021. With(in): Three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life.

MLA Babio, Guadalupe. Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity: Investigating decentralized energy networks for new urban environments. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021.

Berke, A., Lee, N., Chwalek, P. (2021). Private Delivery Networks: Extended Abstract. Presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Obfuscation, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 7 May.

Rico, Andres, et al. "Embedded Piezoelectric Array for Measuring Relative Distributed Forces on Snow Skis." Intelligent Computing. Springer, Cham, 2021. 641-648.

Yurrita, M., Grignard, A., Alonso, L., Zhang, Y., Jara-Figueroa, C., Elkatsha, M., Larson, K., (2021) Dynamic Urban Planning: An Agent-Based Model Coupling Mobility Mode and Housing Choice. Use Case Kendall Square. In: Arai K. (eds) Intelligent Computing. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 284. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80126-7_66

Sánchez, N. C., Martinez, I., Pastor, L. A., & Larson, K. (2021). Simulation study on the fleet performance of shared autonomous bicycles. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.09694