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Research Areas

  1. Social media

Active Projects

  1. Medical Data Polygraph

Past Projects

  1. Bayes OWL
  2. memeta
  3. Modelling the evolution of climate change research
  4. Platys: From Position to Place in Next Generation Networks
  5. Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web
  6. Simulator to evaluate/prototype Local Area and Personal Area Wireless Network Protocols
  7. Web/Data Mining and Personalization

Publications

2025

  1. K. Echenim and K. P. Joshi, "Automating IoT Data Privacy Compliance by Integrating Knowledge Graphs With Large Language Models", Article, IEEE Access 2025, July 2025, 840 downloads.
  2. O. Clark and K. P. Joshi, "Evaluating Causal AI Techniques for Health Misinformation Detection", InProceedings, Causal AI for Robust Decision Making (CARD 2025) Workshop, held in conjunction with 23rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2025), March 2025, 2143 downloads.

2023

  1. S. Ghosh, M. Koupaee, I. Chen, F. Ferraro, N. Chambers, and N. Balasubramanian, "PASTA: A Dataset for Modeling PArticipant STAtes in Narratives", Article, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, November 2023, 643 downloads.
  2. 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, 772 downloads.
  3. S. R. Dipta, M. Rezaee, and F. Ferraro, "Semantically-informed Hierarchical Event Modeling", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, July 2023, 491 downloads.
  4. M. Rezaee and F. Ferraro, "RevUp: Revise and Update Information Bottleneck for Event Representation", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, May 2023, 484 downloads.
  5. K. Roy, M. Gaur, M. Soltani, V. Rawte, and A. Sheth, "ProKnow: Process knowledge for safety constrained and explainable question generation for mental health diagnostic assistance", Article, Frontiers in Big Data, January 2023, 397 downloads.

2022

  1. R. Razavisousan and K. P. Joshi, "Building Textual Fuzzy Interpretive Structural Modeling to Analyze Factors of Student Mobility Based on User Generated Content", Article, International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, November 2022, 1209 downloads.
  2. M. Gaur, K. Gunaratna, S. Bhatt, and A. Sheth, "Knowledge-Infused Learning: A Sweet Spot in Neuro-Symbolic AI", Article, IEEE Internet Computing, August 2022, 1977 downloads.
  3. F. Lu, F. Ferraro, and E. Raff, "Continuously Generalized Ordinal Regression for Linear and Deep Models", InProceedings, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 2022, 2877 downloads.
  4. A. Kotal, A. Piplai, S. Chukkapalli, and A. Joshi, "PriveTAB : Secure and Privacy-Preserving sharing of Tabular Data", InProceedings, ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics, April 2022, 733 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, 3386 downloads.
  2. J. Sleeman, I. Stajner, C. Keller, M. Halem, C. Hamer, R. Montuoro, B. Baker, and e., "The Integration of Artificial Intelligence for Improved Operational Air Quality Forecasting", InProceedings, AGU Fall Meeting 2021, December 2021.
  3. 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, 1761 downloads.
  4. M. Rezaee and F. Ferraro, "Event Representation with Sequential, Semi-Supervised Discrete Variables", InProceedings, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), June 2021, 1391 downloads.
  5. 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. K. P. Joshi and S. Saha, "A Semantically Rich Framework for Knowledge Representation of Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)", Article, Digital Government: Research and Practice, December 2020, 693 downloads.
  2. R. Patel and F. Ferraro, "On the Complementary Nature of Knowledge Graph Embedding, Fine Grain Entity Types, and Language Modeling", InProceedings, EMNLP Workshop on Deep Learning Inside Out, November 2020, 563 downloads.
  3. S. Vallurupalli, J. Sleeman, and T. Finin, "Fine and Ultra-Fine Entity Type Embeddings for Question Answering", InProceedings, International Semantic Web Conference, November 2020, 720 downloads.

2019

  1. R. Razavisousan and K. P. Joshi, "Two Tier Analysis of Social Media Collaboration for Student Migration", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC), 2019, December 2019, 944 downloads.
  2. T. W. Satyapanich, "Modeling and Extracting Information about Cybersecurity Events from Text", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2019, 1107 downloads.
  3. A. Padia, "Joint Models to Refine Knowledge Graphs", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2019, 658 downloads.
  4. A. Padia, "Joint Models to Refine Knowledge Graphs", PhdThesis, October 2019, 1334 downloads.
  5. M. M. Rahman and T. Finin, "Unfolding the Structure of a Document using Deep Learning", TechReport, arXiv:1910.03678, September 2019, 1266 downloads.
  6. 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, 1745 downloads.

2018

  1. J. Sleeman, "Variational Autoencoders using D-Wave Quantum Annealing", InProceedings, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts, December 2018.
  2. J. Sleeman, T. Finin, and M. Halem, "Ontology-Grounded Topic Modeling for Climate Science Research", InCollection, Emerging Topics in Semantic Technologies. ISWC 2018 Satellite Events, October 2018, 1350 downloads.

2017

  1. J. Sleeman, T. Finin, M. Cane, and M. Halem, "Discovering Scientific Influence using Cross-Domain Dynamic Topic Modeling", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, December 2017, 1282 downloads.
  2. M. M. Rahman and T. Finin, "Deep Understanding of a Document's Structure", InProceedings, 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies, December 2017, 1711 downloads.
  3. P. K. Das, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Personalizing context-aware access control on mobile platforms", InProceedings, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, October 2017, 2284 downloads.
  4. M. M. Rahman and T. Finin, "Understanding the Logical and Semantic Structure of Large Documents", Article, arXiv e-print, September 2017, 1302 downloads.
  5. J. Sleeman, "Dynamic Data Assimilation for Topic Modeling (DDATM)", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 2017.
  6. J. Sleeman, M. Halem, T. Finin, and M. Cane, "Modeling the Evolution of Climate Change Assessment Research Using Dynamic Topic Models and Cross-Domain Divergence Maps", InProceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium on AI for Social Good, March 2017, 2217 downloads.

2016

  1. J. Sleeman, M. Halem, T. Finin, and M. Cane, "Advanced Large Scale Cross Domain Temporal Topic Modeling Algorithms to Infer the Influence of Recent Research on IPCC Assessment Reports", InProceedings, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2016, December 2016, 1903 downloads.
  2. J. Sleeman, M. Halem, T. Finin, and M. Cane, "Dynamic Topic Modeling to Infer the Influence of Research Citations on IPCC Assessment Reports", InProceedings, Big Data Challenges, Research, and Technologies in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Workshop, IEEE Int. Conf. on Big Data, December 2016, 1667 downloads.
  3. P. K. Das, D. Ghosh, P. Jagtap, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Preserving User Privacy and Security in Context-Aware Mobile Platforms", InBook, Mobile Application Development, Usability, and Security, October 2016, 1746 downloads.
  4. F. Ferraro and B. Van Durme, "A Unified Bayesian Model of Scripts, Frames and Language.", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 2016, 882 downloads.

2015

  1. A. A. Krisnadhi, Y. Hu, K. Janowicz, P. Hitzler, R. Arko, S. Carbotte, C. Chandler, M. Cheatham, D. Fils, T. Finin, P. Ji, M. Jones, N. Karima, K. Lehnert, A. Mickle, and T. Narock, "The GeoLink Modular Oceanography Ontology", InProceedings, 14th International Semantic Web Conference, October 2015, 1363 downloads.
  2. J. Sleeman, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Topic Modeling for RDF Graphs", InProceedings, 3rd International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction, 14th International Semantic Web Conference, October 2015, 1992 downloads.
  3. A. A. Krisnadhi, Y. Hu, K. Janowicz, P. Hitzler, R. Arko, S. Carbotte, C. Chandler, M. Cheatham, D. Fils, T. Finin, P. Ji, M. Jones, N. Karima, K. Lehnert, A. Mickle, and T. Narock, "The GeoLink Modular Oceanography Ontology", InProceedings, 14th International Semantic Web Conference, October 2015, 1286 downloads.
  4. A. A. Krisnadhi, R. Arko, S. Carbotte, C. Chandler, M. Cheatham, T. Finin, P. Hitzler, K. Janowicz, T. Narock, L. Raymond, and P. Wiebe, "Ontology Pattern Modeling for Cross-Repository Data Integration in the Ocean Sciences: The Oceanographic Cruise Example", InBook, The Semantic Web in Earth and Space Science: Current Status and Future Directions, June 2015, 1670 downloads.
  5. B. (. Kulvatunyou, Y. Lee, N. Ivezik, and Y. Peng, "A Framework to Canonicalize Manufacturing Service Capability Models", Article, Computers & Industrial Engineering, May 2015, 703 downloads.

2012

  1. v. Stoyanov, J. Mayfield, T. Xu, D. Oard, D. Lawrie, T. Oates, and T. Finin, "A Context-Aware Approach to Entity Linking", InProceedings, Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction, June 2012, 3596 downloads.
  2. S. More, M. L. Mathews, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "A Knowledge-Based Approach To Intrusion Detection Modeling", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Semantic Computing and Security, May 2012, 2659 downloads.
  3. D. Ghosh, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and P. Jagtap, "Privacy control in smart phones using semantically rich reasoning and context modeling", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Semantic Computing and Security, May 2012, 1816 downloads.
  4. 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, 452 downloads.

2011

  1. M. desJardins, A. Ciavolino, R. Deloatch, and E. Feasley, "Playing to Program: Towards an Intelligent Programming Tutor for RUR-PLE", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, August 2011, 2024 downloads.

2010

  1. A. Karandikar, "Clustering short status messages: A topic model based approach", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 2010, 11009 downloads.

2007

  1. A. Kale, P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "On Modeling Trust in Social Media using Link Polarity", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2007, 4196 downloads.
  2. A. Kale, "Modeling Trust and Influence in Blogosphere using Link Polarity", MastersThesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, April 2007, 11724 downloads, 36 citations.
  3. A. Java, "A Framework for Modeling Influence, Opinions and Structure in Social Media", InProceedings, 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007), April 2007, 5732 downloads, 4 citations.
  4. L. Kagal and T. Finin, "Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations", Article, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, April 2007, 3031 downloads.
  5. A. Kale, A. Karandikar, P. Kolari, A. Java, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity", InProceedings, Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), March 2007, 5164 downloads, 36 citations.

2006

  1. C. Parr, J. Sachs, A. Parafiynyk, T. Wang, R. Espinosa, and T. Finin, "ETHAN: the Evolutionary Trees and Natural History Ontology", TechReport, TR-EBQ-320-2006, November 2006, 4848 downloads, 1 citation.
  2. A. Java, P. Kolari, T. Finin, and T. Oates, "Modeling the Spread of Influence on the Blogosphere", TechReport, UMBC TR-CS-06-03, March 2006, 21020 downloads, 47 citations.

2005

  1. Z. Ding, "BayesOWL: A Probabilistic Framework for Semantic Web", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2005, 9804 downloads, 10 citations.
  2. R. Pan, Z. Ding, Y. Yu, and Y. Peng, "A Bayesian Network Approach to Ontology Mapping", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fourth International Semantic Web Conference, November 2005, 4922 downloads, 91 citations.
  3. Z. Ding, Y. Peng, and R. Pan, "BayesOWL: Uncertainty Modeling in Semantic Web Ontologies", InBook, Soft Computing in Ontologies and Semantic Web, October 2005, 4216 downloads, 48 citations.
  4. Z. Ding, Y. Peng, R. Pan, and Y. Yu, "A Bayesian Methodology towards Automatic Ontology Mapping", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI-05 C&O Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications, July 2005, 5463 downloads, 20 citations.
  5. V. Parekh, "Applying Ontologies and Semantic Web technologies to Environmental Sciences and Engineering", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2005, 14871 downloads, 1 citation.
  6. 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, 4192 downloads, 14 citations.

2004

  1. H. Chen, "An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2004, 8104 downloads, 17 citations.
  2. Z. Ding, Y. Peng, and R. Pan, "A Bayesian Approach to Uncertainty Modeling in OWL Ontology", InProceedings, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems - Theory and Applications, November 2004, 4557 downloads, 2 citations.
  3. W. Watthayu and Y. Peng, "A Bayesian network based framework for multi-criteria decision making", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, August 2004, 9562 downloads, 18 citations.
  4. L. Kagal and T. Finin, "Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations", InProceedings, AAMAS 2004 Workshop on Agent Communication (AC2004), July 2004, 5620 downloads, 50 citations.
  5. 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, 5320 downloads, 31 citations.
  6. 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, 12375 downloads, 183 citations.
  7. , "Intrusion Detection: Modeling System State to Detect and Classify Aberrant Behavior", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, February 2004, 7638 downloads.
  8. J. Undercoffer, "Intrusion detection: Modeling system state to detect and classify anomalous behaviors", PhdThesis, UMBC, February 2004, 944 downloads.
  9. D. Chakraborty, A. Shenoi, Y. Yesha, Y. Yesha, and A. Joshi, "A Queueing Theoretic Model for Service Discovery in Ad-hoc Networks", InProceedings, Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference (CNDS), January 2004, 3623 downloads, 6 citations.

2003

  1. 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, 9213 downloads, 111 citations.
  2. 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.

2002

  1. H. Chen, "An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Context-Aware Systems", TechReport, PhD Dissertation Proposal, December 2002, 10697 downloads.

2001

  1. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and Y. Peng, "A Delegation Based Model for Distributed Trust", InProceedings, Workshop on Autonomy, Delegation, and Control: Interacting with Autonomous Agents, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, August 2001, 1581 downloads, 69 citations.
  2. L. Kagal, T. Finin, R. S. Cost, and Y. Peng, "A Framework for Distributed Trust Management", InProceedings, Second Workshop on Norms and Institutions in multi-agent systems, May 2001, 4465 downloads, 1 citation.

2000

  1. 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, 5994 downloads, 77 citations.

1999

  1. R. S. Cost, "A framework for developing conversational agents", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 1999, 1208 downloads.
  2. T. Finin and B. Grosof, "Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce", Proceedings, AAAI Press, July 1999.
  3. 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, 3649 downloads, 114 citations.

1991

  1. R. Kass and T. Finin, "General user modeling: a facility to support intelligent interaction", InBook, Intelligent User Interfaces, May 1991, 597 downloads.

1989

  1. T. Finin, "GUMS — A General User Modeling Shell", InBook, User Models in Dialog Systems, January 1989, 1923 downloads.

1988

  1. R. Kass and T. Finin, "The Need for User Models in Generating Expert System Explanations", Article, International Journal of Expert Systems, October 1988, 1874 downloads.
  2. R. Kass and T. Finin, "Modeling the user in natural language systems", Article, Computational Linguistics, January 1988, 3444 downloads, 230 citations.

1987

  1. E. Schuster and T. Finin, "VP 2 : the role of user modelling in correcting errors in second language learning", InBook, Artificial Intelligence and its Applications, January 1987, 473 downloads.

1986

  1. T. Finin and D. Drager, "GUMS1 : A General User Modeling System", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Sixth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, May 1986, 725 downloads.
  2. T. Finin and D. Drager, "GUMS1: A General User Modeling System", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Strategic Computing - Natural Language Workshop, May 1986, 2986 downloads, 46 citations.

Presentation

  1. An Intelligent Broker for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems
  2. BayesOWL: A Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty in Semantic Web
  3. BayesOWL: A Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty in Semantic Web (pdf)
  4. Modeling and using trust and provenance in the Semantic Web
  5. Modeling Conversation Policies as Policies
  6. Modeling the Spread of Influence on the Blogosphere
  7. Predicting food web connectivity: Phylogenetic scope, evidence thresholds, and intelligent agents
  8. Trust and Reputation in Social Networks
  9. Trust, Influence and Bias in Social Media

Poster

  1. SEMDIS: Knowledge Discovery in the Semantic Web

Old News

  1. Platys: From Position to Place in Next Generation Networks
    August 31, 2009
  2. UMBC researchers investigate the Blogosphere
    September 5, 2006
  3. Zhongli Ding defends dissertation
    December 5, 2005
  4. UMBC and IBM collaborate on autonomic computing
    February 24, 2005

Old Events

  1. Modeling and Extracting information about Cybersecurity Events from Text
    May 16, 2017
  2. Generative Adversarial Networks, An Introduction
    February 1, 2017
  3. Topic Modeling for RDF Graphs
    September 21, 2015
  4. Analytics for Detecting Web and Social Media Abuse
    March 16, 2012
  5. Masters Thesis Research Update - Amey and Nikhil
    December 13, 2011
  6. Masters Thesis Research Proposal: Amey Sane and Nikhil Puranik
    September 27, 2011
  7. SAP-LAP Policy Paradigm – Application for Cyber Security
    April 12, 2011
  8. Social media analytics
    October 12, 2010
  9. Clustering short status messages: a topic model based approach
    July 26, 2010
  10. Trust and Reputation in Social Networks
    March 30, 2010