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Research Areas

  1. ecommerce

Active Projects

  1. Data Privacy management using Policy compliant Blockchain structures

Past Projects

  1. Agent Oriented Approaches to a Ubiquitous Grid
  2. ALDA: Automated Legal Document Analytics
  3. Dynamic Negotiation Agents in Mobile Computing
  4. Funding for U.S. Students to Attend ISWC 2008
  5. Platys: From Position to Place in Next Generation Networks
  6. Policy Compliant Integration of Linked Data
  7. RDF123
  8. Securing the Semantic Web: A Trust Management Approach
  9. Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web

Publications

2026

  1. S. Mandlem, J. Clavin, and K. P. Joshi, "Measuring the Compliance Costs of Exchanging Part 2 Healthcare Claims Data Through Blockchain", Article, Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT), March 2026, 214 downloads.
  2. K. Echenim and K. P. Joshi, "Deontic Knowledge Graphs for Privacy Compliance in Multimodal Disaster Data Sharing", Article, Arxiv article, January 2026, 24 downloads.

2025

  1. 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, 1772 downloads.

2024

  1. 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, 521 downloads.

2023

  1. 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, 2652 downloads.
  2. A. Piplai, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Offline RL+CKG: A hybrid AI model for cybersecurity tasks", InProceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium on Challenges Requiring the Combination of Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering, March 2023, 570 downloads.

2022

  1. K. Roy, Y. Zi, V. Narayanan, M. Gaur, and A. Sheth, "KSAT: Knowledge-infused Self Attention Transformer -- Integrating Multiple Domain-Specific Contexts", TechReport, arXiv:2210.04307 [cs.CL], October 2022, 351 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, 3162 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. 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, 2613 downloads.
  4. S. Chukkapalli, P. Ranade, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "A Privacy Preserving Anomaly Detection Framework for Cooperative Smart Farming Ecosystem", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications, November 2021, 775 downloads.
  5. P. Ranade, A. Piplai, S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Generating Fake Cyber Threat Intelligence Using Transformer-Based Models", Proceedings, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2021), July 2021, 1096 downloads, 110 citations.
  6. R. Ayanzadeh, J. E. Dorband, M. Halem, and T. Finin, "Multi-Qubit Correction for Quantum Annealers", Article, Nature Scientific Reports, July 2021, 1216 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, 781 downloads.

2019

  1. 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.
  2. C. Kery, N. Pillai, C. Matuszek, and F. Ferraro, "Building Language-Agnostic Grounded Language Learning Systems", InProceedings, 28th International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man), October 2019, 741 downloads.
  3. K. Sane, K. P. Joshi, and S. Mittal, "A Semantic Approach for Automating Knowledge in Policies of Cyber Insurance Services", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS) 2019, July 2019, 2229 downloads.
  4. A. Renjan, S. N. Narayanan, and K. P. Joshi, "A Policy based Framework for Privacy-Respecting Deep Packet Inspection of High Velocity Network Traffic", InProceedings, 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, May 2019, 999 downloads.

2018

  1. 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, 2755 downloads.
  2. 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, 1896 downloads.

2017

  1. S. K. Singh, K. Khanna, R. Bose, and A. Joshi, "Joint transformation based detection of false data injection attacks in smart grid", Article, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, June 2017, 2239 downloads.

2016

  1. K. Khanna, R. Bose, and A. Joshi, "On Detecting False Data Injection with Limited Network Information using Statistical Techniques", InProceedings, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Chicago, 2017, November 2016, 1133 downloads.
  2. S. N. Narayanan, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "Using Semantic Technologies to Mine Vehicular Context for Security", InProceedings, 37th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium (2016), September 2016, 1729 downloads.

2015

  1. Y. Huang, Y. Yesha, and S. Zhou, "A database-based distributed computation architecture with Accumulo and D4M: An application of eigensolver for large sparse matrix", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, November 2015, 1570 downloads.

2014

  1. J. Sleeman and T. Finin, "Taming Wild Big Data", InProceedings, AAAI Fall Symposium on Natural Language Access to Big Data, November 2014, 1647 downloads.

2013

  1. N. Noy, D. L. McGuinness, and e., "Research Challenges and Opportunities in Knowledge Representation", TechReport, February 2013, 1907 downloads.

2012

  1. V. Agrawal, L. Shastri, M. Singh, and T. Finin, "Activity Context Representation: Techniques and Languages", InProceedings, February 2012, 422 downloads.
  2. A. Lahane, Y. Yesha, M. A. Grasso, A. Joshi, and e., "Detection of Unsafe Action from Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Video", InProceedings, Proceedings of ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, January 2012, 2015 downloads.

2011

  1. J. Martineau, "Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2011, 2908 downloads.

2010

  1. C. Tilmes, Y. Yesha, and M. Halem, "Tracking Provenance of Earth Science Data", Article, Earth Science Informatics, November 2010, 1920 downloads.
  2. C. Tilmes, Y. Yesha, and M. Halem, "Provenance Artifact Identification in the Atmospheric Composition Processing System (ACPS)", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance, February 2010, 1464 downloads, 1 citation.

2009

  1. M. A. Grasso, "The Effect of Computerized Resident Sign-Out on Clarity", Proceedings, Proceedings of the AMIA 2009 Annual Symposium, November 2009, 2555 downloads.
  2. M. Halem, N. Most, C. Tilmes, K. Stewart, Y. Yesha, D. Chapman, and P. Nguyen, "Service-Oriented Atmospheric Radiances (SOAR): Gridding and Analysis Services for Multisensor Aqua IR Radiance Data for Climate Studies", Article, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, January 2009.

2008

  1. C. Tilmes and A. J. Fleig, "Provenance Tracking in an Earth Science Data Processing System", InProceedings, Proceedings of Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes: Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, Ipaw 2008, , June 2008, 2407 downloads.

2007

  1. T. Finin, J. Gama, R. Grossman, D. Lambert, H. Liu, K. Liu, O. Nasraoui, L. Singh, J. Srivastava, and W. Wang, "National Science Foundation Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for Innovation (NGDM’07): Final Report", TechReport, October 2007, 201 downloads.
  2. 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, 2595 downloads, 3 citations.
  3. L. Han, C. Parr, J. Sachs, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "RDF123: a mechanism to transform spreadsheets to RDF", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2007, 9816 downloads, 9 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, 4816 downloads, 1 citation.

2005

  1. V. Parekh, "Applying Ontologies and Semantic Web technologies to Environmental Sciences and Engineering", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2005, 14823 downloads, 1 citation.

2004

  1. M. Sheshagiri, "Automatic Composition and Invocation of Semantic Web Services", MastersThesis, UMBC, August 2004, 3107 downloads, 11 citations.

2003

  1. M. A. Grasso, "Interdisciplinary computer science, guest editor introduction", Article, ACM Crossroads, March 2003, 1776 downloads.
  2. S. B. Kodeswaran, O. V. Ratsimor, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Using Peer-to-Peer Data Routing for Infrastructure-based Wireless Networks", InProceedings, First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications , March 2003, 3126 downloads, 11 citations.

2002

  1. T. Finin and A. Joshi, "Agents, Trust, and Information Access on the Semantic Web", Article, SIGMOD Record, December 2002, 1756 downloads.
  2. O. V. Ratsimor, S. B. Kodeswaran, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Combining Infrastructure and Ad hoc Collaboration For Data Management in Mobile Wireless Networks", InProceedings, Workshop on Ad hoc Communications and Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, November 2002, 3477 downloads, 13 citations.

2000

  1. 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, 402 downloads.

1999

  1. Y. Chen, Y. Peng, Y. K. Labrou, R. S. Cost, and T. Finin, "Negotiating agents for supply chain management", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce, July 1999, 3161 downloads, 14 citations.
  2. 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, 383 downloads.

1991

  1. R. Neches, R. Fikes, T. Finin, T. Gruber, R. Patil, T. Senator, and W. Swartout, "Enabling Technology for Knowledge Sharing", Article, AI Magazine, August 1991, 3188 downloads, 1202 citations.

1978

  1. T. Finin, "Casting the Rendezvous Analyzer Rules into Augmented Transition Network Form", TechReport, IBM Research Report RJ 2146, November 1978.

Poster

  1. Collaborative Research: EAGER SaTC-EDU: AI and Cybersecurity: from Research to the Classroom
  2. DAS poster
  3. Making the web safe for agents
  4. Poster: AI and Cybersecurity: from Research to the Classroom
  5. SEMDIS: Knowledge Discovery in the Semantic Web
  6. SPIRE Poster
  7. Swoogle v2 poster
  8. Swoogle v2 poster

Presentation

  1. Information Integration and the Semantic Web
  2. Negotiating Privacy, Boundaries and Visibility in a Networked World: Why We Need to Move Beyond Opt-in vs. Opt-Out
  3. Research challenges for "The web, semantics and data mining"

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)

Demonstration

  1. Word and phrase similarity

Old News

  1. Platys: From Position to Place in Next Generation Networks
    August 31, 2009
  2. ELVIS poster wins award
    October 28, 2005
  3. UMBC Participates in CNSF's 9th Annual Capitol Hill Science Exhibition
    June 19, 2003

Old Events

  1. Taming Wild Big Data
    November 12, 2014
  2. Semantics for Big Data (,) Security and Privacy
    September 16, 2014
  3. Tutorials by Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research students
    June 12, 2013
  4. Phd proposal: A Semantic Resolution Framework for Manufacturing Capability Data Integration
    May 14, 2013
  5. An architecture for enterprise information interoperability
    November 9, 2012
  6. Masters Thesis Research Proposal: Dibyajyoti Ghosh and Sumit More
    October 4, 2011
  7. Negotiating Privacy, Boundaries and Visibility in a Networked World: Why We Need to Move Beyond Opt-in vs. Opt-Out
    December 3, 2010
  8. Data Provenance Management for Earth Science Reproducibility
    March 24, 2010
  9. Provenance Tracking in an Earth Science Data Processing System
    September 30, 2009
  10. Selective Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning
    April 15, 2009