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Research Areas

  1. Cloud computing

Active Projects

  1. Data Privacy management using Policy compliant Blockchain structures

Past Projects

  1. ALDA: Automated Legal Document Analytics
  2. Cloud Security and Privacy
  3. IT Services Metrics
  4. Secure and Oblivious Cloud Storage and Deletion
  5. Semantic Cloud Services Framework
  6. Tables to Linked Data

Publications

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, 528 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, 485 downloads.

2023

  1. N. Das, A. Kotal, D. Roseberry, and A. Joshi, "Change Management using Generative Modeling on Digital Twins", InProceedings, International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), October 2023, 225 downloads.
  2. D. Dahiphale, A. Wadkar, and K. P. Joshi, "CDFMR: A Distributed Statistical Analysis of Stock Market Data using MapReduce with Cumulative Distribution Function", InProceedings, IEEE CLOUD Summit Conference 2023, July 2023, 352 downloads.
  3. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi, "Semantically Rich Differential Access to Secure Cloud EHR", InProceedings, 9th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2023), May 2023, 397 downloads.

2022

  1. 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, 512 downloads.
  2. M. Halem, a. kochanski, J. Mandel, P. Nguyen, R. Atlas, Z. Yang, A. Bargteil, J. Sleeman, V. Caicedo, B. Demoz, D. Chapman, and K. Patel, "A Machine Learning Plume-Resolving Model Implementation over North America for Mega-Wildland Fire Smoke Impacts on Distant Planetary Boundary Layers", InProceedings, 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 2022.
  3. D. N. Ganapathy and K. P. Joshi, "A Semantically Rich Framework to Automate Cloud Service Level Agreements", Article, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, January 2022, 604 downloads.

2021

  1. M. P. Joshi, K. P. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Delegated Authorization Framework for EHR Services using Attribute Based Encryption", Article, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, November 2021, 1560 downloads.
  2. A. Kotal, A. Joshi, and K. P. Joshi, "The Effect of Text Ambiguity on creating Policy Knowledge Graphs", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2021), September 2021, 621 downloads.
  3. K. Patel, J. Sleeman, and M. Halem, "Physics-aware deep edge detection network", InProceedings, Proceedings Volume 11859, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XXVI; SPIE Remote Sensing, September 2021, 374 downloads.
  4. 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, 666 downloads.
  5. R. Razavisousan and K. P. Joshi, "Analyzing GDPR compliance in Cloud Services' privacy policies using Textual Fuzzy Interpretive Structural Modeling (TFISM)", InProceedings, IEEE International Services Computing Conference (SCC) 2021 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2021, September 2021, 550 downloads.
  6. M. P. Joshi, K. P. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Delegated Authorization Framework for EHR Services using Attribute Based Encryption", InProceedings, IEEE World Congress on Services, September 2021, 400 downloads.
  7. A. Nagar, L. Elluri, and K. P. Joshi, "Automated Compliance of Mobile Wallet Payments for Cloud Services", InProceedings, 7th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2021), May 2021, 530 downloads.
  8. D. L. Kim and K. P. Joshi, "A Semantically Rich Knowledge Graph to Automate HIPAA Regulations for Cloud Health IT Services", 7th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2021), May 2021, 796 downloads.
  9. D. Ziaei, J. Sleeman, M. Halem, V. Caicedo, R. M. Delgado, and B. Demoz, "Convolutional LSTM for Planetary Boundary Layer Height (PBLH) Prediction", InProceedings, AAAI 2021 Spring Symposium on Combining Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Physical Sciences, March 2021, 533 downloads.

2020

  1. L. Elluri, K. P. Joshi, and A. Kotal, "Measuring Semantic Similarity across EU GDPR Regulation and Cloud Privacy Policies", 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, 664 downloads.
  2. 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, 848 downloads.
  3. K. P. Joshi, L. Elluri, and A. Nagar, "An Integrated Knowledge Graph to Automate Cloud Data Compliance", Article, IEEE Access, November 2020, 858 downloads.
  4. A. Kotal, K. P. Joshi, and A. Joshi, "ViCLOUD: Measuring Vagueness in Cloud Service Privacy Policies and Terms of Services", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2020, October 2020, 657 downloads.
  5. S. Sontowski, M. Gupta, S. Chukkapalli, M. Abdelsalam, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and R. Sandhu, "Cyber Attacks on Smart Farming Infrastructure", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC 2020), October 2020, 1197 downloads.
  6. J. Sleeman, M. Halem, V. Caicedo, B. Demoz, and R. M. Delgado, "A Deep Machine Learning Approach for LIDAR Based Boundary Layer Height Detection", InProceedings, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, October 2020.
  7. S. Chukkapalli, S. Mittal, M. Gupta, M. Abdelsalam, A. Joshi, R. Sandhu, and K. P. Joshi, "Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Systems for the Cooperative Smart Farming Ecosystem", InCollection, IEEE Access, September 2020, 605 downloads.
  8. 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, 3069 downloads.

2019

  1. A. Kaplunovich, K. P. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Scalability Analysis of Blockchain on a Serverless Cloud", InProceedings, 7th International Workshop on Distributed Storage and Blockchain Technologies for Big Data, held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2019, December 2019, 1074 downloads.
  2. J. Sleeman, V. Caicedo, M. Halem, and B. Demoz, "Using Lidar and Machine Learning to Identify Planetary Boundary Layer Heights", InProceedings, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts, December 2019.
  3. 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, 847 downloads.
  4. L. Elluri, V. Mandalapu, and N. Roy, "Developing Machine Learning based Predictive Models for Smart Policing", InProceedings, International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), June 2019, 826 downloads.
  5. K. P. Joshi and A. Banerjee, "Automating Privacy Compliance Using Policy Integrated Blockchain", Article, Cryptography, Special Issue Advances of Blockchain Technology and Its Applications, February 2019, 1110 downloads.

2018

  1. L. Elluri, A. Nagar, and K. P. Joshi, "An Integrated Knowledge Graph to Automate GDPR and PCI DSS Compliance", IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2018, December 2018, 1682 downloads.
  2. 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, 964 downloads.
  3. L. Elluri and K. P. Joshi, "A Knowledge Representation of Cloud Data controls for EU GDPR Compliance", InProceedings, 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), July 2018, 1244 downloads.
  4. M. P. Joshi, K. P. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Attribute Based Encryption for Secure Access to Cloud Based EHR Systems", InProceedings, International Conference on Cloud Computing, July 2018, 1993 downloads.
  5. A. Nagar and K. P. Joshi, "A Semantically Rich Knowledge Representation of PCI DSS for Cloud Services", InProceedings, 6th International IBM Cloud Academy Conference ICACON 2018, Japan, May 2018, 1518 downloads.

2017

  1. 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, 1718 downloads.
  2. S. Mittal, A. Gupta, K. P. Joshi, C. Pearce, and A. Joshi, "A Question and Answering System for Management of Cloud Service Level Agreements", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, June 2017, 1211 downloads.
  3. S. Saha, K. P. Joshi, and A. Gupta, "A Deep Learning Approach to Understanding Cloud Service Level Agreements ", InProceedings, Fifth International IBM Cloud Academy Conference, May 2017, 1389 downloads.

2016

  1. K. P. Joshi, A. Gupta, S. Mittal, C. Pearce, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Semantic Approach to Automating Management of Big Data Privacy Policies", InProceedings, IEEE BigData 2016, December 2016, 2192 downloads.
  2. A. Gupta, S. Mittal, K. P. Joshi, C. Pearce, and A. Joshi, "Streamlining Management of Multiple Cloud Services", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, June 2016, 1679 downloads.
  3. 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, 1771 downloads.
  4. K. P. Joshi, Y. Yesha, and T. Finin, "An Ontology for a HIPAA compliant cloud service", InProceedings, 4th International IBM Cloud Academy Conference ICACON 2016, June 2016, 2200 downloads.
  5. S. Mittal, K. P. Joshi, C. Pearce, and A. Joshi, "Automatic Extraction of Metrics from SLAs for Cloud Service Management", InProceedings, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2016), April 2016, 1685 downloads.
  6. Z. Syed, A. Padia, M. L. Mathews, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "UCO: A Unified Cybersecurity Ontology", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security, February 2016, 3986 downloads.

2015

  1. Y. Lee, "Automatic Service Search and Composability Analysis in Large Scale Service Networks", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2015, 1028 downloads.
  2. S. Mittal, K. P. Joshi, C. Pearce, and A. Joshi, "Parallelizing Natural Language Techniques for Knowledge Extraction from Cloud Service Level Agreements", InProceedings, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, October 2015, 1562 downloads.
  3. P. Pappachan, R. Yus, P. K. Das, S. Mehrotra, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Building a Mobile Applications Knowledge Base for the Linked Data Cloud", InProceedings, 1st International Workshop on Mobile Deployment of Semantic Technologies (MoDeST 2015), co-located with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015), Bethlehem, PA (USA), October 2015, 1399 downloads.
  4. Z. Syed, T. Finin, A. Padia, and M. L. Mathews, "Supporting Situationally Aware Cybersecurity Systems", TechReport, University of Maryland Baltimore County, September 2015, 1795 downloads.
  5. B. Stanton, M. Theofanos, and K. P. Joshi, "Framework for Cloud Usability", InProceedings, HCI International 2015, August 2015, 1403 downloads.
  6. A. Hendre and K. P. Joshi, "A Semantic Approach to Cloud Security and Compliance", InProceedings, 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), June 2015, 1355 downloads.
  7. K. P. Joshi and e., "TCO for Cloud Services: A Framework", Article, EDUCAUSE ECAR Working Groups , April 2015, 1559 downloads.
  8. K. P. Joshi and C. Pearce, "Automating Cloud Service Level Agreements using Semantic Technologies", InProceedings, CLaw Workshop, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), March 2015, 1659 downloads.

2014

  1. B. Stanton, M. Theofanos, and K. P. Joshi, "Framework for Cloud Usability", TechReport, NISTIR, August 2014, 1437 downloads.
  2. K. P. Joshi, "Cloud Data Management Policies: Security and Privacy Checklist", InProceedings, 2nd International IBM Cloud Academy Conference ICA CON 2014, Atlanta, May 2014, 1286 downloads.
  3. K. P. Joshi, M. Halem, Y. Yesha, J. E. Dorband, and e., "USM Community Cloud: VCL-based Academic Cloud", InProceedings, 2nd International IBM Cloud Academy Conference ICA CON 2014, Atlanta, May 2014, 2302 downloads.
  4. K. P. Joshi, Y. Yesha, and T. Finin, "Automating Cloud Services Lifecycle through Semantic technologies", Article, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, January 2014, 2383 downloads.

2013

  1. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Semantic Message Passing for Generating Linked Data from Tables", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference, October 2013, 2329 downloads.
  2. K. P. Joshi, Y. Yesha, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "A policy-based cloud broker for the VCL platform", Article, International Journal of Cloud Computing, January 2013, 1871 downloads.

2012

  1. K. P. Joshi, T. Finin, Y. Yesha, A. Joshi, N. Golpayegani, and N. Adam, "A Policy-based Approach to Smart Cloud Services", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Annual Service Research and Innovation Institute Global Conference, July 2012, 1859 downloads.
  2. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "A Domain Independent Framework for Extracting Linked Semantic Data from Tables", InCollection, Search Computing - Broadening Web Search, July 2012, 1856 downloads.
  3. K. P. Joshi, Y. Yesha, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Policy based Cloud Services on a VCL platform", InProceedings, Proceedings of the first International IBM Cloud Academy Conference (ICA CON 2012), April 2012, 2986 downloads.
  4. A. Joshi, T. Finin, K. P. Joshi, and M. Oberoi, "A Policy Driven Semantic Approach to Data Usage Management", InProceedings, Data Usage Management on the Web Workshop in conjunction with WWW 2012, April 2012, 1602 downloads.

2011

  1. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Automatically Generating Government Linked Data from Tables", InCollection, Working notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges, November 2011, 3427 downloads.
  2. K. P. Joshi, "DC Proposal: Automation of Service Lifecycle on the Cloud by Using Semantic Technologies", InProceedings, Proceedings of tenth International Semantic Web Conference, Part II, October 2011, 1752 downloads.
  3. V. Mulwad, "DC Proposal: Graphical Models and Probabilistic Reasoning for Generating Linked Data from Tables", InProceedings, Proceedings of Tenth International Semantic Web Conference, Part II, October 2011, 2685 downloads.
  4. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Generating Linked Data by Inferring the Semantics of Tables", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Searching and Integrating New Web Data Sources, September 2011, 3522 downloads.
  5. K. P. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "A Semantic Approach to Automate Service Management in the Cloud", TechReport, UMBC Tech report TR-CS-11-02, June 2011, 1430 downloads.
  6. K. P. Joshi, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Managing the Quality of Virtualized Services", InProceedings, Proceedings of the SRII Global Conference 2011, March 2011, 1869 downloads.
  7. A. Gupta, K. Viswanathan, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and P. Kumaraguru, "Integrating Linked Open Data with Unstructured Text for Intelligence Gathering Tasks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, March 2011, 1867 downloads.

2010

  1. K. P. Joshi, Y. Yesha, A. Ozok, Y. Yesha, and e., "User-centric Smart Services on the Cloud", InBook, The Smart Internet, October 2010, 1750 downloads.
  2. D. Chapman, K. P. Joshi, Y. Yesha, M. Halem, Y. Yesha, and P. Nguyen, "Scientific Services on the Cloud", InBook, Handbook of Cloud Computing, September 2010, 1790 downloads.
  3. V. Mulwad, "T2LD - An automatic framework for extracting, interpreting and representing tables as Linked Data", MastersThesis, UMBC, August 2010, 3697 downloads.
  4. K. P. Joshi, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Policy Driven Negotiations for Managing Virtualized Services on the Cloud", InProceedings, Proceedings of 19th Annual Frontiers in Service Conference, Sweden, June 2010, June 2010, 1500 downloads.
  5. T. Finin, W. Murnane, A. Karandikar, N. Keller, J. Martineau, and M. Dredze, "Annotating named entities in Twitter data with crowdsourcing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on Creating Speech and Text Language Data With Amazon's Mechanical Turk, June 2010, 3154 downloads.
  6. Z. Syed, T. Finin, V. Mulwad, and A. Joshi, "Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data for Interpreting Tables", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second Web Science Conference, April 2010, 5640 downloads, 6 citations.
  7. K. P. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Integrated Lifecycle of IT Services in a Cloud Environment (Detailed paper)", InProceedings, In proceedings of The Third International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative (ICVCI 2009), April 2010, 3155 downloads.

2009

  1. K. P. Joshi, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Quality metrics for Virtualized IT Services on the Cloud", InProceedings, Proceedings of 18th Annual Frontiers in Service Conference, Hawaii, 2009, October 2009.
  2. K. P. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Integrated Lifecycle of IT Services in a Cloud Environment (extended abstract)", InProceedings, In proceedings of The Third International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative (ICVCI 2009), October 2009, 2241 downloads.

1999

  1. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Semantic Message Passing for Generating Linked Data from Tables", InProceedings, under review, November 1999.

Presentation

  1. Automatically Generating Linked Data from Tables
  2. Blackbook3: A Graph Analytic Processing Platform For The Semantic Web
  3. Context-Aware Privacy Policies in Mobile and Social Computing
  4. Generating Linked Data by inferring the semantics of tables
  5. Presentation at ICACON 2012 : Policy based Cloud Services on a VCL platform
  6. Quick and Shallow Introduction to Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services
  7. Semantically Rich, Policy Based Framework to Automate Lifecycle of Cloud Based Services
  8. SmartER Semantic Cloud Sevices
  9. Tables to Linked Data
  10. Tables to Linked Data
  11. Using linked data to interpret tables

Ontology

  1. Cloud Security and Compliance Ontology
  2. IT Service Ontology
  3. Oblivious Cloud Storage Ontology
  4. Ontology for Cloud Services SLA (Service Level Agreement)
  5. Ontology for Data Privacy Policy
  6. Ontology for EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  7. Ontology for Services on the Cloud

Poster

  1. Generating Linked Data by inferring the semantics of tables

Old News

  1. Ebiquity team wins the Best Paper Award at the IEEE BigDataSecurity 2022 Conference
    May 7, 2022
  2. Ebiquity student Karuna Joshi's IBM Ph.D. Fellowship renewed for 2012-13
    April 12, 2012
  3. Ebiquity student Karuna Joshi receives IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
    March 12, 2011

Old Events

  1. Generating Linked Data from Tables.
    March 24, 2013
  2. Cloud based Active Archiving Solution for Databases
    November 30, 2012
  3. Semantic Web Meetup
    November 15, 2011
  4. Automation of Service lifecycle on the Cloud by using Semantic technologies
    October 18, 2011
  5. MD Semantic Web Meetup: semantic integration frameworks
    September 23, 2011
  6. Programming with Hadoop - A Hands On Introduction
    September 20, 2011
  7. Generating Linked Data by inferring the semantics of tables
    May 25, 2011
  8. Overview of Mendelay
    May 3, 2011
  9. A Framework for Mobile Cloud Computing Applications
    March 15, 2011
  10. COVER Model Pivot Index for Flexible, Adaptable, and Agile Systems
    November 30, 2010