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Research Areas

  1. Multi-Agent Systems

Past Projects

  1. A Personal Agent Application for the Semantic Web
  2. Agent Oriented Approaches to a Ubiquitous Grid
  3. Agents2Go
  4. Allia: Alliance-based Service Discovery
  5. An Agent Based Distributed Computing System using XReggie and Ronin
  6. Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA)
  7. DAML
  8. DAML / ITTalks
  9. Disconnected Web Browsing
  10. Dynamic Negotiation Agents in Mobile Computing
  11. EECOMS
  12. Enabling Peer-to-Peer Resource Discovery in Agent Environment
  13. MagicWeaver: An Agent Based Simulation Framework For Wireless Sensor Networks
  14. MoGATU: Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments
  15. Numi: Using Collaborative Agents to Enrich Service Environments
  16. Ontology Editor for Eclipse
  17. Policy-based Automated WAN Configuration and Management
  18. RAP: RDF Access-control Policiies
  19. Ronin Agent Framework
  20. Securing the Semantic Web: A Trust Management Approach
  21. Semantic Service Discovery in Bluetooth
  22. SemNews
  23. TAGA
  24. UMBC OntoMapper: A Tool For Mapping Between Two Ontologies

Publications

2022

  1. A. Piplai, M. Anoruo, K. Fasaye, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and A. Ridley, "Knowledge guided Two-player Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Attacks and Defenses", InProceedings, International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, December 2022, 428 downloads.

2020

  1. R. Ayanzadeh, M. Halem, and T. Finin, "Reinforcement Quantum Annealing: A Hybrid Quantum Learning Automata", Article, Nature Scientific Reports, May 2020, 406 downloads.
  2. R. Ayanzadeh, "Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Advance Problem-Solving with Quantum Annealers", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2020, 583 downloads.
  3. R. Ayanzadeh, M. Halem, and T. Finin, "Reinforcement Quantum Annealing: A Quantum-Assisted Learning Automata Approach", Article, arXiv:2001.00234 [quant-ph], January 2020, 535 downloads.

2018

  1. S. N. Narayanan, A. Ganesan, K. P. Joshi, T. Oates, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Early Detection of Cybersecurity Threats Using Collaborative Cognition", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), October 2018, 2786 downloads.

2016

  1. P. Nimbalkar, V. Mulwad, N. Puranik, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Semantic Interpretation of Structured Log Files", InProceedings, 17th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, July 2016, 1050 downloads.

2011

  1. P. A. Kodeswaran, S. B. Kodeswaran, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enforcing security in semantics driven policy based networks", Article, Computer Standards and Interfaces, January 2011, 1878 downloads, 1 citation.

2010

  1. I. Mayk, A. Patwardhan, and e., "Tactical Information Technology for Assured Network Operations Information Dissemination and Management for Battle Command Support Services", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 27th Army Science Conference, November 2010, 1296 downloads.
  2. J. Sleeman and T. Finin, "Learning Co-reference Relations for FOAF Instances", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Poster and Demonstration Session at the 9th International Semantic Web Conference, November 2010, 2706 downloads, 2 citations.
  3. J. Sleeman and T. Finin, "Computing FOAF Co-reference Relations with Rules and Machine Learning", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Social Data on the Web at ISWC2010, November 2010, 3975 downloads, 30 citations.
  4. P. A. Kodeswaran, F. Perich, W. Li, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enforcing Secure and Robust Routing with Declarative Policies", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2010 Military Communications Conference, October 2010, 1831 downloads, 1 citation.
  5. P. A. Kodeswaran, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and F. Perich, "A Declarative Approach for Secure and Robust Routing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Assurable & Usable Security Configuration , October 2010, 2182 downloads.
  6. R. Schauer and A. Joshi, "A Probabilistic Approach to Distributed System Management", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomic Computing, June 2010, 1721 downloads.
  7. P. A. Kodeswaran, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and F. Perich, "Correcting Routing Failures Using Declarative Policies and Argumentation", InProceedings, Seventh USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2010, 2438 downloads.
  8. J. Sleeman and T. Finin, "A Machine Learning Approach to Linking FOAF Instances", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence, January 2010, 2567 downloads, 5 citations.

2007

  1. A. Parafiynyk, C. Parr, J. Sachs, and T. Finin, "Adding Semantics to Social Websites for Citizen Science", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic e-Science (AAAI 07), June 2007, 5818 downloads, 3 citations.
  2. L. Kagal and T. Finin, "Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations", Article, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, April 2007, 2674 downloads.
  3. T. Finin, J. Sachs, and C. Parr, "Finding Data, Knowledge, and Answers on the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 20th International FLAIRS Conference, February 2007, 2708 downloads, 1 citation.

2006

  1. L. Ding and T. Finin, "Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference, November 2006, 6608 downloads, 82 citations.
  2. N. Vartak, A. Patwardhan, A. Joshi, and P. Nagy, "Protecting the privacy of RFID tags", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, September 2006, 3156 downloads.
  3. T. Finin and L. Ding, "Search Engines for Semantic Web Knowledge", InProceedings, Proceedings of XTech 2006: Building Web 2.0, May 2006, 27965 downloads, 14 citations.
  4. N. Vartak, "Protecting the privacy of RFID tags", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2006, 3194 downloads.
  5. L. Ding, "Enhancing Semantic Web Data Access", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, April 2006, 6720 downloads, 8 citations.
  6. A. Java, T. Finin, and S. Nirenburg, "Text understanding agents and the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2006, 7891 downloads, 19 citations.

2005

  1. T. Finin, L. Ding, L. Zhou, and A. Joshi, "Social Networking on the Semantic Web", Article, The Learning Organization, December 2005, 8453 downloads, 2 citations.
  2. R. Schauer, "A Mass Storage System Administrator Autonomic Assistant", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2005, 2895 downloads.
  3. L. Ding, R. Pan, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, and P. Kolari, "Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference, November 2005, 13352 downloads, 130 citations.
  4. L. Kagal and J. A. Hendler, "Proceedings of the Semantic Web and Policy Workshop", Proceedings, November 2005, 4882 downloads.
  5. A. Toninelli, J. Bradshaw, L. Kagal, and R. Montanari, "Rule-based and Ontology-based Policies: Toward a Hybrid Approach to Control Agents in Pervasive Environments", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Semantic Web and Policy Workshop, November 2005, 2728 downloads, 29 citations.
  6. A. Java, T. Finin, and S. Nirenburg, "Integrating Language Understanding Agents Into the Semantic Web", InProceedings, First International Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web, November 2005, 5868 downloads, 10 citations.
  7. M. Huhns, T. Finin, and e., "Research Directions for Service-Oriented Multiagent Systems", Article, IEEE Internet Computing, November 2005, 2700 downloads.
  8. L. Ding, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, R. Pan, and P. Reddivari, "Search on the Semantic Web", Article, IEEE Computer, October 2005, 3848 downloads, 66 citations.
  9. L. Ding, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, R. Pan, and P. Reddivari, "Search on the Semantic Web", TechReport, TR-CS-05-09, September 2005, 10415 downloads.
  10. L. Ding and T. Finin, "Boosting Semantic Web Data Access Using Swoogle", InProceedings, AAAI-05: Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2005, 1058 downloads.
  11. V. Tamma, S. Cranefield, T. Finin, and S. Willmott, "Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences", Book, Springer, July 2005.
  12. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing", InBook, Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences, July 2005, 6158 downloads, 70 citations.
  13. L. Kagal and T. Finin, "Modeling Communicative Behavior using Permissions and Obligations", InBook, Developments in Agent Communication, Eds. Frank Dignum, Rogier van Eijk, Marc-Philippe Huget, January 2005, 3617 downloads, 14 citations.

2004

  1. H. Chen, "An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2004, 7481 downloads, 17 citations.
  2. O. Streltchenko, Y. Yesha, and T. Finin, "Multi-agent simulation of financial markets", InBook, Formal Modeling in Electronic Commerce: Representation, Inference, and Strategic Interaction, December 2004, 3256 downloads, 8 citations.
  3. Y. Zou, T. Finin, and H. Chen, "F-OWL: an Inference Engine for the Semantic Web", InBook, Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems, November 2004, 11406 downloads, 55 citations.
  4. H. Chen, T. Finin, A. Joshi, F. Perich, D. Chakraborty, and L. Kagal, "Intelligent Agents Meet the Semantic Web in Smart Spaces", Article, IEEE Internet Computing, November 2004, 5331 downloads, 156 citations.
  5. X. Luan, "Adaptive Middle Agent for Service Matching in the Semantic Web: A Quantitative Approach", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, November 2004, 3571 downloads.
  6. 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, 8502 downloads, 23 citations.
  7. X. Luan, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "Quantitative Agent Service Matching", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, September 2004, 4 citations.
  8. L. Kagal, "A Policy-Based Approach to Governing Autonomous Behavior in Distributed Environments", PhdThesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, September 2004, 10 citations.
  9. H. Chen, F. Perich, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "SOUPA: Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications", InProceedings, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, August 2004, 11754 downloads, 342 citations.
  10. D. Khushraj, O. Lassila, and T. Finin, "sTuples: Semantic Tuple Spaces", InProceedings, First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous’04), August 2004, 3160 downloads, 73 citations.
  11. M. Sheshagiri, "Automatic Composition and Invocation of Semantic Web Services", MastersThesis, UMBC, August 2004, 2768 downloads, 11 citations.
  12. Y. Zou, "Agent-Based Services for the Semantic Web", PhdThesis, UMBC, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, August 2004, 6206 downloads, 4 citations.
  13. H. Chen, F. Perich, D. Chakraborty, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Intelligent Agents Meet Semantic Web in a Smart Meeting Room", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2004), July 2004, 5828 downloads, 81 citations.
  14. L. Kagal and T. Finin, "Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations", InProceedings, AAMAS 2004 Workshop on Agent Communication (AC2004), July 2004, 4850 downloads, 50 citations.
  15. L. Ding, P. Kolari, S. Ganjugunte, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Modeling and Evaluating Trust Network Inference", InProceedings, Seventh International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies at AAMAS 2004, July 2004, 4806 downloads, 31 citations.
  16. L. Ding, "Weaving the Web of Belief into the Semantic Web", Misc, submitted to WWW2004, May 2004, 7131 downloads.
  17. H. Chen and A. Joshi, "Building an Autonomous Broker Agent for Smart Meeting Rooms", InBook, Submitted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems, April 2004.
  18. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing", InBook, Ontologies for agents: Theory and experiences, April 2004, 1717 downloads, 70 citations.
  19. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "A Context Broker for Building Smart Meeting Rooms", Proceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Knowledge Representation and Ontology for Autonomous Systems Symposium, 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium, March 2004, 9287 downloads, 65 citations.
  20. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Semantic Web in in the Context Broker Architecture", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computer and Communications, March 2004, 11156 downloads, 183 citations.
  21. J. Undercofer, "Intrusion Detection: Modeling System State to Detect and Classify Aberrant Behavior", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, February 2004, 7280 downloads.
  22. A. Kunjithapatham, "Personal Agents on Semantic Web", MastersThesis, UMBC, January 2004.
  23. D. Khushraj, "Semantic Tuple Spaces: A Coordination", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, January 2004.
  24. J. Undercofer, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and J. Pinkston, "Using DAML+ OIL to classify intrusive behaviours", Article, Knowledge Engineering Review, January 2004, 1310 downloads, 3 citations.
  25. W. Krueger, J. Nilsson, T. Oates, and T. Finin, "Automatically Generated DAML Markup for Semistructured Documents", InBook, Agent Mediated Knowledge Management,, January 2004, 2227 downloads, 11 citations.

2003

  1. O. Streltchenko, "Exploring Trading Dynamics in a Derivative Securities Market of Heterogeneous Agents", PhdThesis, UMBC, December 2003.
  2. O. V. Ratsimor, D. Chakraborty, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Service Discovery in Agent-based in Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, Journal on Mobile Networking and Applications, November 2003, 3175 downloads, 38 citations.
  3. A. Kunjithapatham, M. Sheshagiri, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and Y. Peng, "Personal Agents on the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proc. Second Int. Semantic Web Conf., October 2003, 1132 downloads.
  4. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Semantic Web in a Pervasive Context-Aware Architecture", InProceedings, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile System, 5th Annual Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing, October 2003, 8315 downloads, 65 citations.
  5. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "An Intelligent Broker for Context-Aware Systems", Article, Adjunct Proceedings of Ubicomp 2003, October 2003, 4128 downloads, 3 citations.
  6. L. Ding, L. Zhou, and T. Finin, "Trust Based Knowledge Outsourcing for Semantic Web Agents", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, October 2003, 3445 downloads, 47 citations.
  7. O. V. Ratsimor, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "eNcentive: A Framework for Intelligent Marketing in Mobile Peer-To-Peer Environments", InProceedings, The 5th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2003), October 2003, 6757 downloads, 42 citations.
  8. D. Khushraj, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Semantic Tuple Spaces: A Coordination Infrastructure in Mobile Environments", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second International Semantic Web Conference , September 2003, 3 citations.
  9. Y. Zou, T. Finin, L. Ding, H. Chen, and R. Pan, "Using Semantic web technology in Multi-Agent systems: a case study in the TAGA Trading agent environment", InProceedings, Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, September 2003, 4025 downloads, 47 citations.
  10. 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, 11362 downloads, 218 citations.
  11. J. Undercofer, A. Joshi, and J. Pinkston, "Modeling Computer Attacks: An Ontology for Intrusion Detection", InProceedings, The Sixth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, September 2003, 4633 downloads, 19 citations.
  12. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, Knowledge Engineering Review (Special Issue on Ontologies for Distributed Systems), September 2003, 7797 downloads, 614 citations.
  13. L. Ding, Y. Shi, Y. Zou, Z. Ding, and R. Pan, "Strategies and heuristics used by the UMBCTAC agent in the third Trading Agent Competition", InProceedings, Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, held in conjunction with the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2003, 2976 downloads, 3 citations.
  14. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems, August 2003, 7493 downloads, 614 citations.
  15. J. Undercofer, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and J. Pinkston, "A Target-Centric Ontology for Intrusion Detection", InProceedings, Workshop on Ontologies in Distributed Systems, held at The 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2003, 1540 downloads, 50 citations.
  16. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Using OWL in a Pervasive Computing Broker", Article, Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, AAMAS-2003, July 2003, 3325 downloads, 99 citations.
  17. S. Cranefield, T. Finin, V. Tamma, and S. Willmott, "Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems (OAS'03", Proceedings, CEUR Publications, July 2003, 3123 downloads.
  18. S. Quirolgico, N. Srinivasan, and V. Korolev, "Wireless Agents in Ad Hoc Networks", InBook, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, June 2003.
  19. V. Hingne, A. Joshi, T. Finin, H. Kargupta, and E. N. Houstis, "Towards a Pervasive Grid", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Int. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium , April 2003, 1461 downloads.
  20. X. Luan, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "Learning in the Broker Agent", InBook, Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, January 2003, 1173 downloads.
  21. Y. Zou, T. Finin, Y. Peng, A. Joshi, and R. S. Cost, "Agent Communication in DAML World", InBook, Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, January 2003, 1180 downloads.

2002

  1. H. Chen, "An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Context-Aware Systems", TechReport, PhD Dissertation Proposal, December 2002, 10107 downloads.
  2. L. Ding, Y. Shi, Z. Ding, and R. Pan, "UMBCTAC: A Balanced Bidding Agent", TechReport, UMBC Technical Report TR-02-15, December 2002, 4169 downloads.
  3. T. Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, O. V. Ratsimor, S. Avancha, V. Korolev, H. Chen, F. Perich, and R. S. Cost, "Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices", Article, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, December 2002, 3806 downloads, 17 citations.
  4. T. Finin and A. Joshi, "Agents, Trust, and Information Access on the Semantic Web", Article, SIGMOD Record, December 2002, 1379 downloads.
  5. S. Kumar, A. Kunjithapatham, M. Sheshagiri, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and Y. Peng, "Sidekick: A Personal agent for the semantic web", TechReport, Technical Report, December 2002, 28 downloads.
  6. S. Kumar, A. Kunjithapatham, M. Sheshagiri, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, and R. S. Cost, "A Personal Agent Application for the Semantic Web", InProceedings, AAAI 2002 Fall Symposium Series, November 2002, 3492 downloads, 14 citations.
  7. O. V. Ratsimor, D. Chakraborty, S. Tolia, D. Khushraj, A. Kunjithapatham, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Allia: Alliance-based Service Discovery for Ad-Hoc Environments", InProceedings, ACM Mobile Commerce Workshop, September 2002, 3042 downloads, 132 citations.
  8. D. Chakraborty, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "GSD: A Novel Group-based Service Discovery Protocol for MANETs", InProceedings, 4th IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN), September 2002, 4105 downloads, 218 citations.
  9. T. Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, O. V. Ratsimor, S. Avancha, V. Korolev, H. Chen, F. Perich, and R. S. Cost, "Information agents for mobile and embedded devices", Article, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, September 2002, 1502 downloads.
  10. L. Kagal, F. Perich, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Vigil: Providing Trust for Enhanced Security in Pervasive Systems", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2002, 5321 downloads, 11 citations.
  11. S. Tolia, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "MagicWeaver: An Agent-Based Simulation Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks", InProceedings, Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents for Mobile, Embedded and Wearable Devices, August 2002, 3212 downloads, 1 citation.
  12. L. Kagal, "An Agent Approach to Security for Pervasive Computing Environments", InProceedings, Doctoral Consortium, The Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 02), July 2002.
  13. H. Chen and T. Finin, "Beyond Distributed AI, Agent Teamwork in Ubiquitous Computing", Article, Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on Embedded, Wearable, and Mobile Devices, AAMAS-2002, July 2002, 3209 downloads, 9 citations.
  14. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Developing Secure Agent Systems Using Delegation Based Trust Management", InProceedings, Security of Mobile Multi-Agent Systems Workshop, Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2002) , July 2002, 5334 downloads, 38 citations.
  15. S. Cranefield, T. Finin, and S. Willmott, "Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems", Proceedings, July 2002.
  16. S. Prasad, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "Using Explicit Information To Map Between Two Ontologies", InProceedings, AAMAS 2002 Workshop on Ontologies and Agent Systems, July 2002, 3365 downloads, 19 citations.
  17. N. Srinivasan and T. Finin, "Enabling Peer-to-Peer Resource Discovery in Agent Environment", InProceedings, Challenges in Open Agent Systems / AAMAS 2002, July 2002, 2819 downloads, 1 citation.
  18. Y. Peng, Y. Zou, and X. Luan, "Semantic resolution for e-commerce", InProceedings, Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, July 2002, 2197 downloads, 17 citations.
  19. S. Tolia, D. Khushraj, and T. Finin, "ITTalks Event Notification Service", InProceedings, Workshop on Challenges in Open Agent Systems, Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, July 2002, 97 downloads.
  20. S. Prasad, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "A Tool for Mapping Between Two Ontologies Using Explicit Information", InProceedings, AAAI-02 Workshop on Meaning Negotiation, July 2002, 21 downloads.
  21. S. Cranefield, S. Willmott, and T. Finin, "Introduction to the special issue on ontologies in agent systems", Article, Knowledge Engineering Review, March 2002, 814 downloads.
  22. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "On Security in Open Multi-Agent Systems", TechReport, UMBC, March 2002, 152 downloads.
  23. D. Chakraborty, F. Perich, S. Avancha, and A. Joshi, "An Agent Discovery Architecture Using Ronin and DReggie", InProceedings, First GSFC/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC), January 2002, 3821 downloads, 6 citations.
  24. L. Kagal, F. Perich, H. Chen, S. Tolia, Y. Zou, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, R. S. Cost, and C. Nicholas, "Agents Making Sense of the Semantic Web", InProceedings, First GSFC/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC), January 2002, 4667 downloads, 9 citations.
  25. R. S. Cost, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, C. Nicholas, I. Soboroff, H. Chen, L. Kagal, F. Perich, Y. Zou, and S. Tolia, "ITtalks: A Case Study in the Semantic Web and DAML+OIL", Article, IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue, January 2002, 4471 downloads, 66 citations.
  26. A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Agents, Mobility, and M-services: Creating the Next Generation Applications and Infrastructure on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks", InBook, Developing an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems, January 2002, 777 downloads.

2001

  1. F. Perich, R. S. Cost, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, C. Nicholas, H. Chen, L. Kagal, Y. Zou, and S. Tolia, "ITTALKS: An Application of Agents in the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW 2001), December 2001, 4636 downloads, 5 citations.
  2. X. Luan, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "Agent Consumer Reports: of the Agents, by the Agents and for the Agents", InProceedings, Proc. 2nd Asia-Pacific Conf. on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001), October 2001, 1056 downloads.
  3. D. Chakraborty, F. Perich, S. Avancha, and A. Joshi, "DReggie: Semantic Service Discovery for M-Commerce Applications", InProceedings, Workshop on Reliable and Secure Applications in Mobile Environment, In Conjunction with 20th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), October 2001, 5729 downloads, 96 citations.
  4. D. Chakraborty, F. Perich, and A. Joshi, "An Agent-Based Approach to Ubiquitous Information Access", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, October 2001, 3886 downloads.
  5. H. Chen and S. Tolia, "Steps Towards Creating a Context-Aware Agent System", TechReport, September 2001, 3000 downloads, 21 citations.
  6. H. Chen, S. Tolia, C. Sayers, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Creating Context-Aware Software Agents", Article, First GSFC/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, September 2001, 3590 downloads, 30 citations.
  7. T. Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, O. V. Ratsimor, and V. Korolev, "Information Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop Cooperative Information Agents, September 2001, 4405 downloads, 17 citations.
  8. S. Avancha, D. Chakraborty, D. Gada, T. Kamdar, and A. Joshi, "Fast and Efficient Handoff Scheme using Forwarding Pointers and Heirarchical Foreign Agents", InProceedings, Proc. Conference on Design and Modeling of Wireless Networks, ITCom, August 2001.
  9. O. V. Ratsimor, V. Korolev, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Agents2Go: An Infrastructure for Location-Dependent Service Discovery in the Mobile Electronic Commerce Environment", InProceedings, ACM Mobile Commerce Workshop, July 2001, 5183 downloads, 39 citations.
  10. R. S. Cost, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, C. Nicholas, H. Chen, L. Kagal, F. Perich, Y. Zou, and S. Tolia, "ITTALKS: A Case Study in the Semantic Web and DAML", InProceedings, International Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS 2001), July 2001, 4183 downloads, 18 citations.
  11. S. Cranefield, T. Finin, and S. Willmott, "Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems", Proceedings, July 2001.
  12. 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, June 2001, 3743 downloads, 1 citation.
  13. R. S. Cost, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Coordinating agents using agent communication languages conversations", InBook, Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies, and Applications, March 2001, 19 downloads.
  14. H. Chen and A. Joshi, "Dynamic Service Discovery for Mobile Computing: Intelligent Agents Meet Jini in the Aether", Article, Cluster Computing, February 2001, 3785 downloads, 69 citations.

2000

  1. A. Joshi, "On Proxy Agents, Mobility, and Web Access", Article, ACM/Baltzer Journal of Mobile Networks and Nomadic Applications (MONET), December 2000, 2799 downloads, 77 citations.
  2. R. S. Cost, Y. Chen, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, and Y. Peng, "Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling", InBook, Agent Communication Languages, September 2000, 5543 downloads, 77 citations.
  3. B. Grosof, "Knowledge-Based Electronic Markets", Proceedings, AAAI Press, August 2000, 2 citations.
  4. R. S. Cost, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Agent Communication Languages and Agent Coordination", InBook, Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies and Applications, July 2000, 2542 downloads, 1 citation.
  5. S. Quirolgico, K. Canfield, T. Finin, and J. A. Smith, "Merging Neural Networks in a Multi-Agent System", TechReport, TR EB-2000-01, January 2000, 5 downloads.
  6. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "History, State of the Art and Challenges for Agent Communication Languages", Article, Informatik/Informatique, January 2000, 2540 downloads, 9 citations.

1999

  1. H. Chen, "Developing a Dynamic Distributed Intelligent Agent Framework Based on the Jini Architecture", TechReport, Master's thesis, December 1999, 30 citations.
  2. R. S. Cost, Y. K. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, and A. Boughannam, "An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications, October 1999, 2232 downloads, 23 citations.
  3. S. Quirolgico and K. Canfield, "Communicating neural network knowledge between agents in a simulated aerial reconnaissance system", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications,, October 1999, 2859 downloads, 5 citations.
  4. Y. Peng, H. Chen, L. Wang, Y. K. Labrou, and R. S. Cost, "An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd. World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics and The 5th. Int'l Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (SCI'99/ISAS'99), August 1999, 2947 downloads, 5 citations.
  5. R. S. Cost, "A framework for developing conversational agents", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 1999, 500 downloads.
  6. Y. Chen, Y. Peng, Y. K. Labrou, and R. S. Cost, "Negotiating agents for supply chain management", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce, July 1999, 2841 downloads, 14 citations.
  7. Y. Chen, Y. Peng, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, and R. S. Cost, "Negotiating Agents for Supply Chain Management", InProceedings, AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce, July 1999, 36 downloads.
  8. R. S. Cost, Y. Chen, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, and Y. Peng, "Modeling agent conversations with colored petri nets", InProceedings, Working notes of the Autonomous Agents '99 Workshop on Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies, May 1999, 3256 downloads, 114 citations.
  9. R. S. Cost, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, and A. Boughannam, "Agent development with Jackal", InProceedings, Third annual conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1999, 950 downloads.
  10. Y. Chen, Y. Peng, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, B. Chu, J. Yao, R. Sun, and R. Wilhelm, "A negotiation-based Multi-agent System for Supply Chain Management", InProceedings, Workshop on supply chain management, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, April 1999, 585 downloads.
  11. A. Joshi, "On Mobility and Agents", InProceedings, DIMACS Workshop on Mobile Networks and Computing, March 1999, 2750 downloads, 2 citations.
  12. Y. K. Labrou, T. Finin, and Y. Peng, "The current landscape of Agent Communication Languages", Article, IEEE Intelligent Systems, March 1999, 2246 downloads, 446 citations.
  13. Y. K. Labrou and Y. Peng, "The Interoperability Problem: Bringing together Mobile Agents and Agent Communication Languages,", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences, January 1999, 2539 downloads, 29 citations.
  14. Y. Peng, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, R. S. Cost, B. Chu, J. Long, J. Long, and A. Boughannam, "An agent-based approach for manufacturing integration: The CIIMPLEX experience", Article, Applied Artificial Intelligence, January 1999, 1159 downloads.

1998

  1. Y. Peng, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, B. Chu, J. Long, W. Tolone, and A. Boughannam, "A multi-agent system for enterprise integration", Article, International Journal of Agile Manufacturing, December 1998, 2376 downloads, 81 citations.
  2. W. Tolone, B. Chu, J. Long, R. Wilhelm, Y. Peng, and A. Boughannam, "Supporting Human Interactions within Integrated Manufacturing Systems", Article, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing, December 1998, 1244 downloads, 3 citations.
  3. H. Bharadvaj, A. Joshi, and S. Auephanwiriyakul, "An Active Transcoding Proxy to Support Mobile Web Access", InProceedings, 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, October 1998, 3766 downloads, 176 citations.
  4. R. S. Cost, Y. K. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, and A. Boughannam, "Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Tools for Agent Development, July 1998, 9520 downloads, 61 citations.
  5. K. Decker, T. Finin, C. Manning, M. Singh, and J. Treur, "Implementing Multi-Agent Systems: Languages, Frameworks, and Standards", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Software Tools for Developing Agents, July 1998, 1205 downloads.
  6. M. A. Rabi, "Relationships among security and algebraic properties of cryptographic objects, and a security infrastructure for agent communication languages", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 1998, 214 downloads.
  7. Y. Peng and Y. K. Labrou, "Mobile agents can benefit from standards efforts on interagent communication", Article, IEEE Communications Magazine, July 1998, 2144 downloads, 26 citations.
  8. Q. He, K. Sycara, and T. Finin, "Personal Security Agent: KQML-based PKI", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1998, 2322 downloads, 49 citations.

1997

  1. R. S. Cost, I. Soboroff, J. Lakhani, T. Finin, and E. Miller, "TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents", InProceedings, 4th International conference on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, July 1997, 915 downloads.

1996

  1. Y. K. Labrou, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", PhdThesis, UMBC, August 1996, 220 downloads, 234 citations.
  2. T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, and J. Mayfield, "Evaluating KQML as an agent communication language", InBook, Intelligent Agents II -- Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, January 1996, 2178 downloads, 47 citations.
  3. J. Mayfield, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language", InCollection, Intelligent Agents Volume II - 1995 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, January 1996.

1995

  1. J. Mayfield, T. Finin, R. Narayanaswamy, C. Shah, W. MacCartney, and K. Goolsbey, "The Cycic Friends Network: getting Cyc agents to reason together", InProceedings, Proceedings of the ACM CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, December 1995, 1493 downloads, 5 citations.
  2. C. Thirunavukkarasu, T. Finin, and J. Mayfield, "Secret Agents - A Security Architecture for the KQML Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, CIKM'95 Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, October 1995, 312 downloads.
  3. C. Thirunavukkarasu, T. Finin, A. Potluri, D. P. McKay, and R. McEntire, "On Agent Domains, Agent Names and Proxy Agents", InProceedings, ACM CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, October 1995, 411 downloads.

1994

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "A semantics approach for KQML -- a general purpose communication language for software agent", InProceedings, Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management,, November 1994, 11 downloads.
  2. T. Finin, R. Fritzson, D. P. McKay, and R. McEntire, "KQML as an agent communication language", InProceedings, Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management , October 1994, 3095 downloads, 2225 citations.
  3. T. Finin, R. Fritzson, D. P. McKay, and R. McEntire, "KQML - A Language and Protocol for Knowledge and Information Exchange", InProceedings, 13th Int. Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop, July 1994, 1199 downloads.
  4. T. Finin, D. P. McKay, R. Fritzson, and R. McEntire, "KQML: An Information and Knowledge Exchange Protocol", InBook, Knowledge Building and Knowledge Sharing, January 1994, 209 downloads.

1992

  1. T. Finin, R. Fritzson, and D. P. McKay, "A Language and Protocol to Support Intelligent Agent Interoperability", InProceedings, 4th National Symp. on Concurrent Engineering, CE & CALS, June 1992, 970 downloads.

1989

  1. T. Finin and D. Klein, "Characterizing Knowledge Depth in Intelligent Safety Systems", Article, Applied Artificial Intelligence, October 1989.

Presentation

  1. A Multiagent-Based Synergistic Approach For Software Fault Tolerance
  2. A2G Slides
  3. AAAI 2004 talk (Finin)
  4. Agent approaches to Security, Trust and Privacy in Pervasive Computing
  5. Agent Communication in the Semantic Web Era and Beyond
  6. Agents and Web Services
  7. An Intelligent Broker for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems
  8. Computational Policies in a Need to Share Environment
  9. Enabling Peer-to-Peer Resource Discovery in Agent Environment
  10. Finding Data, Knowledge, and Answers on the Semantic Web
  11. Finding knowledge, data and answers on the Semantic Web
  12. Finding knowledge, data and answers on the Semantic Web
  13. Finding knowledge, data and answers on the Semantic Web
  14. Integrating Language Understanding Agents into the Semantic Web
  15. Intelligent agents meet the semantic web
  16. Intelligent Agents meet the Semantic Web (5/2005)
  17. Intelligent Agents meet the Semantic Web in the Aether (july 20, 2004)
  18. Making software agents smarter
  19. MATA 2005 keynote
  20. Modeling Conversation Policies as Policies
  21. NOWHERE: A Knowledge Level Agent Programming Infrastructure
  22. OWL Leaves the Nest -- Knowledge Integration for Ubiquitious Agents
  23. OWL Leaves the Nest -- Knowledge Integration for Ubiquitious Agents
  24. Predicting food web connectivity: Phylogenetic scope, evidence thresholds, and intelligent agents
  25. Protecting the privacy of RFID tags
  26. Search Engines for Semantic Web Knowledge
  27. Searching for Knowledge and Data on the Semantic Web
  28. Text Understanding Agents and the Semantic Web (HICSS06)
  29. Trust and Reputation in Social Networks

Poster

  1. Making the web safe for agents
  2. SEMDIS poster (March 2005)

Web Site

  1. TAGA

Old News

  1. Looking back at the ebiquity research group's 2006
    January 1, 2007
  2. Swoogle 2006 released
    February 1, 2006
  3. SemNews: news text to Semantic Web
    January 12, 2006
  4. Finin to serve as editor-in-chief of Journal of Web Semantics
    September 1, 2005
  5. UMBC ebqiuity members help organize SWPW
    May 1, 2005
  6. UMBC and IBM collaborate on autonomic computing
    February 24, 2005
  7. UMBC ebiquity group launches four new PhDs
    December 23, 2004
  8. Xiaocheng Luan defends dissertation
    September 17, 2004
  9. Finin gives invited talk at AAAI 2004
    August 27, 2004
  10. ebiquity helps organize PSPT 2004
    August 26, 2004
  11. ebiquity Student Team Wins $120M in Supply Chain Contest
    July 25, 2004
  12. Three new PhDs
    May 19, 2004
  13. Olga Streltchenko
    November 14, 2003
  14. TAGA sourceforged
    October 24, 2003
  15. Agentcities project a finalist in 2003 Descartes Prize
    September 25, 2003
  16. UMBC Team Wins Award at Agentcities Agent Technology Competition
    February 6, 2003

Old Events

  1. Masters Thesis Research Proposal: Amey Sane and Nikhil Puranik
    September 27, 2011
  2. Prediction markets for fun, feedback and the future
    March 17, 2011
  3. Recovering from Internet Routing Failures using Declarative Policies and Argumentation Protocols
    April 13, 2010
  4. Trust and Reputation in Social Networks
    March 30, 2010
  5. A Multiagent-Based Synergistic Approach for Software Fault Tolerance
    November 9, 2009
  6. Feature-Based Local Policy Reinforcement Learning
    May 12, 2009
  7. Virtual Patients as Intelligent Agents
    May 8, 2009
  8. Strategic Learning
    April 23, 2009
  9. Transfer in the Context of Reinforcement Learning by Mapping Q-Tables
    May 2, 2007
  10. Using the Semantic Web to support knowledge integration, retrieval and expansion for ecoinformatics
    May 1, 2007

Old Conferences

  1. First Workshop on Pervasive Security, Privacy and Trust (PSPT)
    August 26, 2004
  2. Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems
    July 20, 2004
  3. UbiAgents04, AAMAS Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents
    July 19, 2004