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Research Areas

  1. Semantic Web
  2. Web services

Past Projects

  1. A Personal Agent Application for the Semantic Web
  2. Accelerated Cybersecurity
  3. An Agent Based Distributed Computing System using XReggie and Ronin
  4. ArRf - Activity Recognition with RF
  5. DAML
  6. DAML / ITTalks
  7. Damlator: Semantic Web Translator
  8. DReggie: Semantic Service Discovery Infrastructure
  9. Funding for U.S. Students to Attend ISWC 2008
  10. iConnect
  11. Ontology Editor for Eclipse
  12. OWLIR: Information Retrieval On The Semantic Web
  13. RDF123
  14. Securing the Semantic Web: A Trust Management Approach
  15. Semantic Service Discovery in Bluetooth
  16. SweetJess
  17. SweetRules
  18. UMBC OntoMapper: A Tool For Mapping Between Two Ontologies

Publications

2025

  1. S. Chattoraj and K. P. Joshi, "LLM based Knowledge Graph Approach to Automating Medical Device Regulatory Compliance", InProceedings, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), December 2025, 1791 downloads.
  2. D. L. Kim and K. P. Joshi, "TRUCE: TRUsted Compliance Enforcement Service for Secure Health Data Exchange", Article, Arxiv article, December 2025, 120 downloads.

2024

  1. S. Chattoraj and K. P. Joshi, "MedReg-KG: KnowledgeGraph for Streamlining Medical Device Regulatory Compliance", InProceedings, 4th Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Big Data in Conjunction with IEEE BigData 2024, December 2024, 1154 downloads.
  2. S. Hamer, J. Sleeman, and M. Halem, "Towards a Dynamic Data Driven AI Regional Weather Forecast Model", InProceedings, DDDAS (Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems) 2024 to Appear in Springer, November 2024, 751 downloads.
  3. S. Chattoraj and K. P. Joshi, "Semantically Rich Approach to Automating Regulations of Medical Devices", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) , 2024 at IEEE World Congress on Services 2024, July 2024, 1180 downloads.

2023

  1. A. Hamid, H. R. Samidi, T. Finin, P. Pappachan, and R. Yus, "A Study of the Landscape of Privacy Policies of Smart Devices", Article, CoRR abs/2308.05890, December 2023, 575 downloads.
  2. K. Echenim and K. P. Joshi, "IoT-Reg: A Comprehensive Knowledge Graph for Real-Time IoT Data Privacy Compliance", InProceedings, IEEE Big Data 2023, 3rd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Big Data, December 2023, 2830 downloads.
  3. e., K. P. Joshi, and e., "Developing Ethics and Equity Principles, Terms, and Engagement Tools to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity in AI and Machine Learning: Modified Delphi Approach", Article, JMIR AI 2023;2:e52888, September 2023, 856 downloads.
  4. A. Kotal, N. Das, and A. Joshi, "Knowledge Infusion in Privacy Preserving Data Generation", InProceedings, KDD Workshop on Knowledge-infused Learning, 29TH ACM SIGKDD,, August 2023, 579 downloads.

2022

  1. D. Ghosh, P. Gupta, S. Dixit, and R. Yus, "JENNER: Just-in-time Enrichment in Query Processing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, September 2022, 745 downloads.
  2. A. Padia, F. Ferraro, and T. Finin, "Jointly Identifying and Fixing Inconsistent Readings from Information Extraction Systems", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third Deep Learning Inside Out (DeeLIO):Workshop: Knowledge Extraction and Integration for Deep Learning Architecture, May 2022, 693 downloads.
  3. A. Chio, D. Jiang, P. Gupta, G. Bouloukakis, R. Yus, S. Dixit, and N. Venkatasubramanian, "SmartSPEC: Customizable Smart Space Datasets via Event-driven Simulations", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 2022, 743 downloads.
  4. S. Mitra, A. Piplai, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "Combating Fake Cyber Threat Intelligence using Provenance in Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs", IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2021, January 2022, 1769 downloads.

2021

  1. P. Ranade, A. Piplai, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "CyBERT: Contextualized Embeddings for the Cybersecurity Domain", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, December 2021, 3395 downloads.
  2. K. M. Al Farabi, S. Sarkhel, S. Dey, and D. Venugopal, "Interpretable Explanations for Probabilistic Inference in Markov Logic", InProceedings, International Conference on Big Data, December 2021, 744 downloads.
  3. G. Shan, B. Zhao, J. Clavin, H. Zhang, and S. Duan, "Poligraph: Intrusion-Tolerant and Distributed Fake News Detection System", Article, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, November 2021.
  4. 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, 914 downloads.
  5. 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, 673 downloads.
  6. R. Ayanzadeh, J. E. Dorband, M. Halem, and T. Finin, "Multi-Qubit Correction for Quantum Annealers", Article, Nature Scientific Reports, July 2021, 1260 downloads.
  7. J. Sleeman, T. Finin, and M. Halem, "Understanding Cybersecurity Threat Trends through Dynamic Topic Modeling", Article, Frontiers in Big Data, June 2021, 610 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, 961 downloads.
  2. A. Piplai, P. Ranade, A. Kotal, S. Mittal, S. N. Narayanan, and A. Joshi, "Using Knowledge Graphs and Reinforcement Learning for Malware Analysis", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2020, December 2020, 1521 downloads.
  3. 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.
  4. C. H. Song, D. Lawrie, and T. Finin, "Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers", Article, arXiv:2003.03072, March 2020, 3239 downloads.
  5. R. Ayanzadeh, M. Halem, and T. Finin, "Reinforcement Quantum Annealing: A Quantum-Assisted Learning Automata Approach", Article, arXiv:2001.00234 [quant-ph], January 2020, 1076 downloads.

2019

  1. A. Diaz, A. Sherman, and A. Joshi, "Phishing in an academic community: A study of user susceptibility and behavior", Article, Crypologia, August 2019, 781 downloads.

2016

  1. 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, 1921 downloads.
  2. Y. Gui, "Convexification and Deconvexification for Training Artificial Neural Networks", PhdThesis, May 2016, 556 downloads.

2015

  1. C. Grasso, A. Joshi, and E. Siegel, "Beyond NER: Towards Semantics in Clinical Text", InProceedings, Biomedical Data Mining, Modeling, and Semantic Integration (BDM2I); co-located with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015), Bethlehem, PA (USA), October 2015, 1338 downloads.
  2. J. Lo, Y. Gui, and Y. Peng, "The Normalized Risk-Averting Error Criterion for Avoiding Nonglobal Local Minima in Training Neural Networks", Article, Neurocomputing, February 2015, 547 downloads.

2013

  1. J. Lee, K. Jung, B. Kim, Y. Peng, and H. Cho, "Semantic web-based supplier discovery system for building a long-term supply chain", Article, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, November 2013.
  2. P. McNamee, T. Finin, D. Lawrie, and J. Mayfield, "HLTCOE Participation at TAC 2013", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Sixth Text Analysis Conference, November 2013, 1398 downloads.
  3. J. Martineau, D. Cheng, and T. Finin, "TISA: Topic Independence Scoring Algorithm", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 9th Internastional Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, July 2013, 1417 downloads.
  4. P. McNamee, J. Mayfield, T. Finin, T. Oates, D. Lawrie, T. Xu, and D. Oard, "KELVIN: a tool for automated knowledge base construction", InProceedings, Proceedings Conf. of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, June 2013, 1666 downloads.

2012

  1. J. Lo, Y. Gui, and Y. Peng, "Overcoming the Local-Minimum Problem in Training Multilayer Perceptrons with the NRAE Training Method", InProceedings, Ninth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2012), July 2012, 572 downloads.
  2. V. Agrawal, L. Shastri, M. Singh, and T. Finin, "Activity Context Representation: Techniques and Languages", InProceedings, Activity Context Representation: Techniques and Languages workshop at the 17th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, February 2012, 453 downloads.

2011

  1. L. Han, T. Finin, P. McNamee, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Improving Word Similarity by Augmenting PMI with Estimates of Word Polysemy", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, June 2011.
  2. J. Kim, Y. Peng, N. Ivezik, and J. Shin, "An Optimization Approach for Semantic-based XML Schema Matching", Article, International Journal of Trade, Economics, and Finance, January 2011, 1542 downloads.

2010

  1. J. Kim, Y. Peng, N. Ivezik, and J. Shin, "Semantic-based Optimal XML Schema Matching: A Mathematical Programming Approach", InProceedings, The Proceedings of International Conference on E-business, Management and Economics, December 2010, 1648 downloads.
  2. 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, 1697 downloads.
  3. J. Kim and Y. Peng, "A semantic similarity analysis for data mappings between heterogeneous XML schemas", InBook, Electronic Business Interoperability: Concepts, Opportunities and Challenges, January 2010, 1895 downloads.

2009

  1. J. Kim, S. Lee, M. Halem, and Y. Peng, "Semantic Similarity Analysis of XML Schema using Grid Computing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, August 2009, 1096 downloads.
  2. K. Burton, A. Java, and I. Soboroff, "The ICWSM 2009 Spinn3r Dataset", InProceedings, Third Annual Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2009), May 2009, 24 citations.

2008

  1. J. Kim, Y. Peng, B. (. Kulvatunyou, N. Ivezik, and A. Jones, "A Layered Approach to Semantic Similarity Analysis of XML Schemas", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, July 2008, 2428 downloads, 1 citation.
  2. 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.
  3. C. Fink, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, and C. Piatko, "OWL as a Target for Information Extraction Systems", InProceedings, OWLED 2008 DC, OWL: Experiences and Directions, April 2008, 2494 downloads.

2007

  1. C. Parr, J. Sachs, L. Han, T. Wang, and T. Finin, "RDF123 and Spotter: Tools for generating OWL and RDF for biodiversity data in spreadsheets and unstructured text", InProceedings, Proceedings of Biodiversity Information Standards Annual Conference (TDWG 2007), October 2007, 2631 downloads, 3 citations.
  2. O. Walavalkar, "Streaming Knowledge Bases", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2007, 4 citations.
  3. M. Halem, Y. Yesha, C. Tilmes, D. Chapman, M. Goldberg, and L. Zhou, "A Web Service Tool (SOAR) for the Dynamic Generation of L1 Grids of Coincident AIRS, AMSU and MODIS Satellite Sounding Radiance Data for Climate Studies", Article, EOS Transactions, June 2007.
  4. T. Finin, J. Mayfield, and B. Grosof, "DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) Tools for Supporting Intelligent Annotation, Sharing and Retrieval", TechReport, umbc, January 2007, 308 downloads.

2006

  1. E. Rukzio, M. Paolucci, T. Finin, P. Wisner, and T. Payne, "Proceedings of the workshop on Mobile Interaction with the Real World (MIRW 2006)", Proceedings, September 2006, 439 downloads.
  2. L. Kagal, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and S. Greenspan, "Security and Privacy Challenges in Open and Dynamic Environments", Article, IEEE Computer, June 2006, 3406 downloads.

2005

  1. M. Chopra, "Applying Policy Based Access Control and XML Digital Signatures for Security in Pervasive Computing Environments", MastersThesis, May 2005, 3098 downloads.

2004

  1. 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, 12480 downloads, 55 citations.
  2. 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, 3622 downloads, 73 citations.
  3. M. Sheshagiri, "Automatic Composition and Invocation of Semantic Web Services", MastersThesis, UMBC, August 2004, 3131 downloads, 11 citations.
  4. T. Finin, "Agents Meet the Semantic Web on the Wire and in the Aether", Presentation slides, AAAI, July 2004, 221 downloads.
  5. A. Kunjithapatham, "Personal Agents on Semantic Web", MastersThesis, UMBC, January 2004.
  6. D. Khushraj, "Semantic Tuple Spaces: A Coordination", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, January 2004.
  7. W. Krueger, J. Nilsson, T. Oates, and T. Finin, "Automatically Generated DAML Markup for Semistructured Documents", InBook, Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management, January 2004, 2600 downloads, 11 citations.

2003

  1. 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.
  2. G. Denker, L. Kagal, T. Finin, K. Sycara, and M. Paoucci, "Security for DAML Web Services: Annotation and Matchmaking", InProceedings, Second International Semantic Web Conference, September 2003, 5091 downloads, 125 citations.
  3. J. Undercoffer, 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, 5213 downloads, 19 citations.
  4. 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, 8261 downloads, 614 citations.
  5. J. Undercoffer, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and J. Pinkston, "Using DAML+OIL to classify intrusive behaviours", Article, Knowledge Engineering Review, September 2003, 1728 downloads, 3 citations.
  6. Y. Zou, T. Finin, L. Ding, H. Chen, and R. Pan, "TAGA: Travel Market Framework in Agentcities (Demonstration)", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2003, 462 downloads.
  7. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems, August 2003, 8542 downloads, 614 citations.
  8. Y. Zou, T. Finin, L. Ding, H. Chen, and R. Pan, "TAGA: Trading Agent Competition in Agentcities", InProceedings, Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, held at 18th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence,, August 2003, 387 downloads.
  9. J. Pinkston, J. Undercoffer, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "A Target-Centric Ontology for Intrusion Detection", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IJCAI-03 Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems, July 2003, 2040 downloads, 150 citations.
  10. M. Sheshagiri, M. desJardins, and T. Finin, "A Planner for Composing Services Described in DAML-S", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Web Services and Agent-based Engineering,, June 2003, 3145 downloads, 159 citations.
  11. B. Grosof, M. Gandhe, and T. Finin, "SweetJess: Inferencing in Situated Courteous RuleML via Translation to and from Jess Rules", TechReport, May 2003, 2447 downloads.
  12. X. Luan, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "Learning in the Broker Agent", InBook, Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, January 2003, 1602 downloads.
  13. 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, 1572 downloads.

2002

  1. 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, 432 downloads.
  2. U. Shah, T. Finin, A. Joshi, J. Mayfield, and R. S. Cost, "Information retrieval on the semantic web", InProceedings, The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 2002, 3832 downloads, 147 citations.
  3. 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, 3871 downloads, 14 citations.
  4. L. Kagal, V. Korolev, S. Avancha, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Centaurus : An Infrastructure for Service Management in Ubiquitous Computing", Article, ACM Wireless Networks Journal, November 2002, 3125 downloads, 19 citations.
  5. L. Kagal, V. Korolev, S. Avancha, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "An Approach to Dynamic Service Management in Pervasive Computing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 2002, 3534 downloads.
  6. 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, 4591 downloads, 218 citations.
  7. 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, September 2002, 1960 downloads.
  8. S. Prasad, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "Statement of Interest: A Tool For Mapping Concepts Between Two Ontologies", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Ontologies and the Semantic Web, July 2002, 385 downloads.
  9. 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, 5831 downloads, 38 citations.
  10. 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, 3736 downloads, 100 citations.
  11. 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, 2563 downloads, 17 citations.
  12. S. Tolia, D. Khushraj, and T. Finin, "ITTalks Event Notification Service", InProceedings, Workshop on Challenges in Open Agent Environments, Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), July 2002, 491 downloads.
  13. 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, 397 downloads.
  14. M. Gandhe, T. Finin, and B. Grosof, "SweetJess: Translating DamlRuleML to Jess", InProceedings, International Workshop on Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules on the Semantic Web in conjunction with ISWC2002, June 2002, 3000 downloads, 51 citations.
  15. S. Prasad, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "A Tool For Mapping Concepts Between Two Ontologies", Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), June 2002, 362 downloads.
  16. A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Me-Services: A Framework for Secure & Personalized Discovery, Composition and Management of Services in Pervasive Environments", InProceedings, International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web, May 2002, 1137 downloads.
  17. A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Me-Services: A Framework for Secure and Personalized Discovery, Composition and Management of Services in Pervasive Environments", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web Workshop, May 2002, 368 downloads.
  18. S. Cranefield, S. Willmott, and T. Finin, "Introduction to the special issue on ontologies in agent systems", Article, Knowledge Engineering Review, March 2002, 1214 downloads.
  19. L. Kagal, F. Perich, H. Chen, S. Tolia, Y. Zou, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, R. S. Cost, C. Nicholas, and T. Finin, "Agents Making Sense of the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC): Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, January 2002, 5201 downloads, 9 citations.
  20. 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, 5000 downloads, 66 citations.

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, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World II, December 2001, 5139 downloads, 5 citations.
  2. 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, 6225 downloads, 96 citations.
  3. H. Chen and S. Tolia, "Steps Towards Creating a Context-Aware Agent System", TechReport, September 2001, 3425 downloads, 21 citations.
  4. 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, 4649 downloads, 18 citations.

2000

  1. T. Finin and B. Grosof, "Knowledge-Based Electronic Markets", Proceedings, AAAI Press, August 2000, 2 citations.
  2. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "History, State of the Art and Challenges for Agent Communication Languages", Article, Informatik/Informatique, January 2000, 2941 downloads, 9 citations.

1999

  1. L. Kagal, V. Korolev, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "A Highly Adaptable Infrastructure for Service Discovery and Management in Ubiquitous Computing", TechReport, Technical Report, TR CS-01-06, November 1999, 587 downloads.
  2. R. S. Cost, Y. K. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, A. Boughannam, and T. Finin, "An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications, October 1999, 2570 downloads, 23 citations.
  3. Y. Peng, T. Finin, H. Chen, L. Wang, Y. K. Labrou, R. S. Cost, B. Chu, V. Cross, M. Russell, W. Tolone, A. Boughannam, and J. McCobb, "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, 3273 downloads, 5 citations.
  4. R. S. Cost, "A framework for developing conversational agents", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 1999, 1208 downloads.
  5. T. Finin and B. Grosof, "Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce", Proceedings, AAAI Press, July 1999.
  6. 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, 1291 downloads.
  7. Y. K. Labrou, T. Finin, and Y. Peng, "Agent Communication Languages: the Current Landscape", Article, IEEE Intelligent Systems, March 1999, 3229 downloads, 446 citations.

1998

  1. M. A. Rabi, T. Finin, A. Sherman, and Y. K. Labrou, "Secure Knowledge Query Manipulation Language: a security infrastructure for agent communication languages", TechReport, UMBC, November 1998, 374 downloads.
  2. R. S. Cost, Y. K. Labrou, X. Luan, Y. Peng, I. Soboroff, J. Mayfield, A. Boughannam, and T. Finin, "Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development", InProceedings, Software Tools for Developing Agents: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop, July 1998, 9889 downloads, 61 citations.
  3. 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, 1574 downloads.
  4. 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, 654 downloads.
  5. 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, 2650 downloads, 49 citations.
  6. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language", Readings in Agents, January 1998, 351 downloads.

1997

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Towards a Standard for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, November 1997, 407 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), August 1997, 476 downloads.
  3. 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, 1297 downloads.
  4. R. S. Cost, I. Soboroff, J. Lakhani, T. Finin, E. Miller, and C. Nicholas, "Agent Development Support for Tcl", Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop, July 1997, 47 downloads.
  5. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, 4th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, July 1997, 430 downloads.
  6. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "A Proposal for a new KQML Specification", TechReport, TR CS-97-03, February 1997, 194 downloads.
  7. J. Mayfield and T. Finin, "A Security Architecture for Agent Communication Languages", TechReport, UMBC, January 1997, 386 downloads.

1996

  1. D. P. McKay, J. Pastor, R. McEntire, and T. Finin, "An architecture for information agents", InProceedings, Advanced Planning Technology: Technological Achievements of the ARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative, December 1996, 419 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", PhdThesis, UMBC, August 1996, 575 downloads, 234 citations.
  3. 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, 2549 downloads, 47 citations.
  4. 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, 761 downloads.

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, 1863 downloads, 50 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, 683 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, 943 downloads.
  4. J. Mayfield, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages", InProceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium on Information Gathering in Distributed Environments, March 1995, 523 downloads.

1994

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "A semantics approach for KQML -- a general purpose communication language for software agents", InProceedings, Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 1994, 577 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, 5883 downloads, 2225 citations.
  3. T. Finin, D. P. McKay, R. Fritzson, and R. McEntire, "KQML - A Language and Protocol for Knowledge and Information Exchange", InBook, Knowledge Building and Knowledge Sharing, September 1994, 754 downloads.
  4. 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, 1637 downloads.

1993

  1. T. Finin, J. Weber, G. Wiedehold, M. Genesereth, R. Fritzson, D. P. McKay, J. McGuire, R. Pelavin, S. C. Shapiro, and C. Beck, "Specification of the KQML Agent-Communication Language", TechReport, June 1993, 153 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, 1361 downloads.
  2. H. Chalupsky, T. Finin, R. Fritzson, D. P. McKay, S. C. Shapiro, and G. Wiedehold, "An Overview of KQML: A Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language", TechReport, UMBC, April 1992, 177 downloads.

Dataset

  1. Annotations of Cybersecurity blogs and articles
  2. foafPub dataset
  3. Splog Blog Dataset
  4. Structural Metadata from ArXiv Articles
  5. UMBC webbase corpus

Web Site

  1. DAML
  2. Semantic Web in UbiComp SIG

Presentation

  1. DAML PI meeting ppt (Nov 04)
  2. DAML Review (Nov 04)
  3. Geospatial Semantic Web
  4. Rei and RUles
  5. Searching for Knowledge and Data on the Semantic Web
  6. Sixty years of knowledge graphs for language understanding
  7. Theory and Practice of Agent Communication in the Semantic Web Era
  8. Tutorial on XACML
  9. Tutorial on XACML
  10. Understanding PML
  11. What generative AI systems know about cybersecurity

Source Code

  1. DAML4Jess

Poster

  1. Generating Linked Data by inferring the semantics of tables
  2. Swangling poster PPT (May 2004)
  3. Swoogle poster (Nov 2004)
  4. Swoogle Poster (ppt) (may 2004)
  5. Swoogle Poster PDF (May 2004)

Executable

  1. RDF Web service v1.0 (java servlet)
  2. RDF123 java application v1.0
  3. RDF123 linux application v1.0 (With Java VM self-contained)
  4. RDF123 windows application v1.0 (With Java VM self-contained)

Ontology

  1. Rei Ontology Specifications, Ver 2.0

Brochure

  1. UMBC Semantic Web Reference Card - v1
  2. UMBC Semantic Web Reference Card - v1 (A4)
  3. UMBC Semantic Web Reference Card - v2
  4. UMBC Semantic Web Reference Card - v2 (A4)

Demonstration

  1. Word and phrase similarity

Old News

  1. Ebiquity student Karuna Joshi receives IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
    March 12, 2011
  2. Platys: From Position to Place in Next Generation Networks
    August 31, 2009
  3. From 'Need to Know’ to ‘Need to Share’:
    April 30, 2008
  4. Looking back at the ebiquity research group's 2006
    January 1, 2007
  5. UMBC researchers investigate the Blogosphere
    September 5, 2006
  6. Swoogle 2006 released
    February 1, 2006
  7. SemNews: news text to Semantic Web
    January 12, 2006
  8. Welcome to the Splogosphere
    December 16, 2005
  9. ELVIS poster wins award
    October 28, 2005
  10. SweetRules v2.1 released
    April 25, 2005
  11. ebiquity paper selected as best paper
    January 3, 2005
  12. UMBC ebiquity group launches four new PhDs
    December 23, 2004
  13. Harry Chen defends dissertation
    December 3, 2004
  14. Xiaocheng Luan defends dissertation
    September 17, 2004
  15. Lalana Kagal defends dissertation
    September 15, 2004
  16. Finin gives invited talk at AAAI 2004
    August 27, 2004
  17. ebiquity helps organize PSPT 2004
    August 26, 2004
  18. Three new PhDs
    May 19, 2004
  19. Introducing Dr. Hidenari Kiyomitsu of Kobe University
    January 17, 2004
  20. New JESS DAML+OIL reasoner
    January 8, 2004
  21. Agentcities project a finalist in 2003 Descartes Prize
    September 25, 2003

Old Events

  1. Semantic knowledge and privacy in the physical web
    September 27, 2016
  2. Beyond NER: Towards Semantics in Clinical Text
    October 5, 2015
  3. Attribute-based Fine Grained Access Control for Triple Stores
    September 14, 2015
  4. An energy efficient semantic context model for managing privacy on smartphones
    March 25, 2013
  5. Virtual Collaboration and Training in Medicine through Multimedia e-Learning system
    February 25, 2013
  6. Cloud based Active Archiving Solution for Databases
    November 30, 2012
  7. An architecture for enterprise information interoperability
    November 9, 2012
  8. Semantic Web Meetup
    November 15, 2011
  9. Masters Thesis Research Proposal : Entity Linking and Disambiguation for Smartphone platforms
    October 11, 2011
  10. Masters Thesis Research Proposal: Amey Sane and Nikhil Puranik
    September 27, 2011

Old Conferences

  1. First Workshop on Pervasive Security, Privacy and Trust (PSPT)
    August 26, 2004