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Research Areas

  1. Multi-Agent Systems

Publications

2026

  1. A. Joshi, T. Finin, K. P. Joshi, and L. Kagal, "Deontic Policies for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems", InProceedings, Symposium on Agentic Services, June 2026.

2005

  1. 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, 3099 downloads, 29 citations.
  2. V. Tamma, S. Cranefield, T. Finin, and S. Willmott, "Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences", Book, Springer, July 2005, 13559 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, 12506 downloads, 55 citations.
  2. 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, 5871 downloads, 156 citations.
  3. T. Finin, "Agents Meet the Semantic Web on the Wire and in the Aether", Presentation slides, AAAI, July 2004, 242 downloads.

2003

  1. 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, 3819 downloads, 47 citations.
  2. 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, 4568 downloads, 120 citations.
  3. 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, 471 downloads.
  4. 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, 2049 downloads, 150 citations.
  5. 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, 3557 downloads.

2002

  1. 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, 5842 downloads, 38 citations.
  2. 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, 3746 downloads, 100 citations.
  3. N. Srinivasan and T. Finin, "Enabling Peer-to-Peer Resource Discovery in Agent Environment", InProceedings, Challenges in Open Agent Systems / AAMAS 2002, July 2002, 3620 downloads, 1 citation.
  4. 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, 2575 downloads, 17 citations.
  5. 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, 498 downloads.
  6. 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, 403 downloads.
  7. S. Cranefield, S. Willmott, and T. Finin, "Introduction to the special issue on ontologies in agent systems", Article, Knowledge Engineering Review, March 2002, 1230 downloads.
  8. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "On Security in Open Multi-Agent Systems", TechReport, UMBC, March 2002, 532 downloads.
  9. 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, 5214 downloads, 9 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, 5151 downloads, 5 citations.
  2. 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, 4660 downloads, 18 citations.

2000

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "History, State of the Art and Challenges for Agent Communication Languages", Article, Informatik/Informatique, January 2000, 2954 downloads, 9 citations.

1999

  1. R. S. Cost, "A framework for developing conversational agents", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 1999, 1219 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou, T. Finin, and Y. Peng, "Agent Communication Languages: the Current Landscape", Article, IEEE Intelligent Systems, March 1999, 3265 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, 385 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, 9899 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, 1580 downloads.

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, 1308 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "A Proposal for a new KQML Specification", TechReport, TR CS-97-03, February 1997, 205 downloads.
  3. J. Mayfield and T. Finin, "A Security Architecture for Agent Communication Languages", TechReport, UMBC, January 1997, 392 downloads.

Presentation

  1. Intelligent Agents meet the Semantic Web
  2. Theory and Practice of Agent Communication in the Semantic Web Era

Old News

  1. UMBC and IBM collaborate on autonomic computing
    February 24, 2005

Old Events

  1. A Model For Trust And Reputation: competence, integrity, and forgiveness in multi-agent systems
    November 21, 2005
  2. Organizational Learning and Network Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
    November 14, 2005
  3. A Policy-Based Approach to Governing Autonomous Behavior in Distributed Environments
    September 15, 2004
  4. META-LEVEL CONTROL IN BOUNDED-RATIONAL AGENTS
    December 1, 2003

Old Conferences

  1. Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems
    July 20, 2004