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Past Projects

  1. IDE for Rei Policy Language
  2. Ontology Editor for Eclipse
  3. RAP: RDF Access-control Policiies
  4. Securing the Semantic Web: A Trust Management Approach
  5. Vigil / Secure Centaurus

Publications

2026

  1. K. Echenim and K. P. Joshi, "Deontic Knowledge Graphs for Privacy Compliance in Multimodal Disaster Data Sharing", Article, Arxiv article, January 2026, 57 downloads.

2025

  1. J. Tamboli, K. P. Joshi, and O. Clark, "Security Compliance for Smart Manufacturing using Knowledgegraph based Digital Twin", InProceedings, BigCyber Workshop held in conjunction with 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), December 2025, 185 downloads.

2024

  1. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi, "Leveraging semantic context to establish access controls for secure cloud-based electronic health records", Article, International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, April 2024, 1424 downloads.
  2. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi, "Comparison of attribute‑based encryption schemes in securing healthcare systems", Article, Scientific Reports, Nature, March 2024, 1370 downloads.
  3. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and L. Elluri, "Secure and Privacy-Compliant Data Sharing: An Essential Framework for Healthcare Organizations", 10th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing ICMC 2024, January 2024, 834 downloads.

2022

  1. D. L. Kim, N. Alodadi, Z. Chen, K. P. Joshi, A. Crainiceanu, and D. Needham, "MATS: A Multi-aspect and Adaptive Trust-based Situation-aware Access Control Framework for Federated Data-as-a-Service Systems", InProceedings, IEEE International Services Computing Conference (SCC) 2022 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2022, July 2022, 726 downloads.
  2. S. Dixit, K. P. Joshi, S. Choi, and L. Elluri, "Semantically Rich Access Control in Cloud EHR Systems Based on MA-ABE", InProceedings, 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2022), May 2022, 1042 downloads.
  3. S. Chukkapalli, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and R. F. Erbacher, "CAPD: A Context-Aware, Policy-Driven Framework for Secure and Resilient IoBT Operations", InProceedings, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications IV, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, April 2022, 634 downloads.

2021

  1. D. L. Kim, L. Elluri, and K. P. Joshi, "Trusted Compliance Enforcement Framework for Sharing Health Big Data", InProceedings, IEEE BigData 2021 4th Special Session on HealthCare Data, December 2021, 1173 downloads.
  2. P. Schubel, Z. Chen, A. Crainiceanu, K. P. Joshi, and D. Needham, "A Semantic Framework for Secure and Efficient Contact Tracing of Infectious Diseases", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2021, December 2021, 655 downloads.
  3. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi, "Secure Cloud EHR with Semantic Access Control, Searchable Encryption and Attribute Revocation", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) 2021 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2021, September 2021, 1164 downloads.
  4. L. Elluri, A. Piplai, A. Kotal, A. Joshi, and K. P. Joshi, "A Policy-Driven Approach to Secure Extraction of COVID-19 Data From Research Papers", Article, Frontiers in Big Data, doi: 10.3389/fdata.2021.701966, August 2021, 655 downloads.
  5. S. Chukkapalli, S. Aziz, N. Alotaibi, S. Mittal, M. Gupta, and M. Abdelsalam, "Ontology driven AI and Access Control Systems for Smart Fisheries", TechReport, January 2021, 1110 downloads.

2020

  1. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, S. Choi, and D. L. Kim, "Cloud-based Encrypted EHR System with Semantically Rich Access Control and Searchable Encryption", InProceedings, 7th International Workshop on Privacy and Security of Big Data (PSBD 2020), in conjunction with 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020), December 2020, 1137 downloads.
  2. S. Oni, Z. Chen, A. Crainiceanu, K. P. Joshi, and D. Needham, "A Framework for Situation-Aware Access Control in Federated Data-as-a-Service Systems Based on Query Rewriting", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC), 2020, October 2020, 726 downloads.
  3. S. Dutta, S. Chukkapalli, M. Sulgekar, S. Krithivasan, P. K. Das, and A. Joshi, "Context Sensitive Access Control in Smart Home Environments", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020), May 2020, 4217 downloads.
  4. S. Chukkapalli, A. Piplai, S. Mittal, M. Gupta, and A. Joshi, "A Smart-Farming Ontology for Attribute Based Access Control", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020), March 2020, 1238 downloads.

2019

  1. S. Oni, Z. Chen, A. Crainiceanu, K. P. Joshi, and D. Needham, "Situation-Aware Access Control in Federated Data-as-a-Service for Maritime Search And Rescue", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC), 2019, July 2019, 982 downloads.
  2. S. Dixit, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi, "Multi Authority Access Control in a Cloud EHR System with MA-ABE", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2019), July 2019, 1081 downloads.
  3. A. Renjan, S. N. Narayanan, and K. P. Joshi, "A Policy based Framework for Privacy-Respecting Deep Packet Inspection of High Velocity Network Traffic", InProceedings, 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, May 2019, 1004 downloads.

2018

  1. V. Rathode, S. N. Narayanan, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "Semantically Rich, Context Aware Access Control for Openstack", InProceedings, 4th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, September 2018, 1388 downloads.

2017

  1. P. K. Das, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Personalizing context-aware access control on mobile platforms", InProceedings, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, October 2017, 2246 downloads.
  2. P. K. Das, "Context-Dependent Privacy and Security Management on Mobile Devices", PhdThesis, Ph.D. Dissertation, August 2017, 1380 downloads.
  3. M. P. Joshi, S. Mittal, K. P. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Semantically Rich, Oblivious Access Control Using ABAC for Secure Cloud Storage", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing, June 2017, 2063 downloads.

2016

  1. P. K. Das, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Capturing policies for fine-grained access control on mobile devices", InProceedings, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC 2016), November 2016, 1569 downloads.
  2. V. Narkhede, K. P. Joshi, T. Finin, S. Choi, A. Aviv, and D. S. Roche, "Managing Cloud Storage Obliviously", InProceedings, International Conference on Cloud Computing, June 2016, 1987 downloads.
  3. P. K. Das, S. N. Narayanan, N. K. Sharma, A. Joshi, K. P. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Context-Sensitive Policy Based Security in Internet of Things", InProceedings, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), May 2016, 2086 downloads.
  4. N. K. Sharma and A. Joshi, "Representing attribute based access control policies in OWL", InProceedings, Tenth International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), February 2016, 2190 downloads.

2015

  1. A. Padia, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Attribute-based Fine Grained Access Control for Triple Stores", InProceedings, 3rd Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology workshop, 14th International Semantic Web Conference, October 2015, 1982 downloads, 20 citations.

2010

  1. P. A. Kodeswaran and E. Viegas, "Towards a privacy preserving policy based infrastructure for social data access to enable scientific research", InProceedings, Eighth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, August 2010, 325 downloads.
  2. P. A. Kodeswaran and E. Viegas, "A Policy Based Infrastructure for Social Data Access with Privacy Guarantees", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, July 2010, 5797 downloads, 6 citations.

2008

  1. C. Tilmes, "Standardizing Interfaces for External Access to Data and Processing for the NASA Ozone Product Evaluation And Test Element", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2008 Geoinformatics Conference , July 2008.
  2. T. Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, J. Niu, R. Sandhu, W. H. Winsborough, and B. Thuraisingham, "ROWLBAC - Representing Role Based Access Control in OWL", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Access control Models and Technologies, June 2008, 8141 downloads, 350 citations.
  3. T. Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, J. Niu, R. Sandhu, W. H. Winsborough, and B. Thuraisingham, "Role Based Access Control and OWL", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th OWLED Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Direction, April 2008, 3469 downloads.
  4. T. Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, J. Niu, R. Sandhu, W. H. Winsborough, and B. Thuraisingham, "Using OWL to Model Role Based Access Control", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, February 2008, 3403 downloads.

2007

  1. S. B. Kodeswaran, O. V. Ratsimor, F. Perich, and A. Joshi, "Utilizing Semantic Tags for Policy Based Networking", InProceedings, IEEE Globecom 2007 Internet Protocol Symposium, November 2007, 3125 downloads, 6 citations.
  2. P. Reddivari, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Policy-Based Access Control for an RDF Store", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IJCAI-07 Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, January 2007, 8547 downloads, 34 citations.

2006

  1. P. A. Bonatti, L. Ding, T. Finin, and D. Olmedilla, "Proceedings of the Second Semantic Web Policy Workshop", Proceedings, CEUR, November 2006, 4248 downloads.

2005

  1. P. Reddivari, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Policy based Access Control for a RDF Store", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Policy Management for the Web Workshop, May 2005, 3690 downloads, 34 citations.
  2. R. Masuoka, M. Chopra, Z. Song, Y. K. Labrou, L. Kagal, and T. Finin, "Policy-based Access Control for Task Computing Using Rei", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Policy Management for the Web Workshop, May 2005, 3386 downloads, 15 citations.
  3. M. Chopra, "Applying Policy Based Access Control and XML Digital Signatures for Security in Pervasive Computing Environments", MastersThesis, May 2005, 3085 downloads.

2004

  1. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Declarative Policies for Describing Web Service Capabilities and Constraints", InProceedings, W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services, October 2004, 9103 downloads, 23 citations.
  2. A. B. Shah, L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Policy Development Software for Security Policies", InProceedings, DIAMACS Workshop on Usable Privacy and Security Software, July 2004, 330 downloads.

2003

  1. J. Undercoffer, F. Perich, A. Cedilnik, L. Kagal, and A. Joshi, "A Secure Infrastructure for Service Discovery and Access in Pervasive Computing", Article, ACM Monet: Special Issue on Security in Mobile Computing Environments, October 2003, 4835 downloads, 44 citations.
  2. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "A Policy Based Approach to Security for the Semantic Web", InProceedings, 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), September 2003, 12366 downloads, 218 citations.

2002

  1. L. Kagal, F. Perich, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and J. Undercoffer, "A Security Architecture Based on Trust Management for Pervasive Computing Systems", InProceedings, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 2002, 6005 downloads, 30 citations.
  2. F. Perich and C. Nicholas, "SHOMAR: An Open Architecture for Distributed Intrusion Detection Services", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, September 2002, 6069 downloads.

2001

  1. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Trust-Based Security in Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, IEEE Computer, December 2001, 9688 downloads, 214 citations.
  2. A. Cedilnik, L. Kagal, F. Perich, and A. Joshi, "A Secure Infrastructure for Service Discovery and Access in Pervasive Computing", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2001, 4766 downloads.
  3. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and Y. Peng, "A Delegation Based Model for Distributed Trust", InProceedings, Workshop on Autonomy, Delegation, and Control: Interacting with Autonomous Agents, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, August 2001, 1557 downloads, 69 citations.
  4. L. Kagal, T. Finin, R. S. Cost, and Y. Peng, "A Framework for Distributed Trust Management", InProceedings, Second Workshop on Norms and Institutions in multi-agent systems, May 2001, 4425 downloads, 1 citation.

Presentation

  1. Constraining Information Flow in Social Networks with Privacy Policies

Old News

  1. Ebiquity team wins the Best Paper Award at the IEEE BigDataSecurity 2022 Conference
    May 7, 2022
  2. Looking back at the ebiquity research group's 2006
    January 1, 2007

Old Events

  1. Is your personal data at risk? App analytics to the rescue
    September 28, 2015
  2. Attribute-based Fine Grained Access Control for Triple Stores
    September 14, 2015
  3. Cloud based Active Archiving Solution for Databases
    November 30, 2012
  4. Group Centric Information Sharing Model for Social Networks
    September 28, 2010
  5. Constraining Information Flow in Social Networks with Privacy Policies
    August 10, 2009
  6. Reverse Engineering of RBAC Policy using Access Logs
    June 15, 2009
  7. Tutorial on XACML
    February 18, 2009
  8. Reverse engineering RBAC policies using ILP
    December 2, 2008
  9. A policy-based system to determine access control in RDF stores
    April 28, 2006
  10. RDF Access Policy (RAP) Implementation Presentation
    May 11, 2005

Old Conferences

  1. Policy 2004
    June 7, 2004