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Research Areas

  1. Context-Aware Computing
  2. Pervasive computing
  3. Security, Trust and Privacy

Past Projects

  1. Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA)
  2. Context-Aware Surgical Training
  3. Dynamic Negotiation Agents in Mobile Computing
  4. MoGATU: Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments
  5. Ontology Editor for Eclipse
  6. Rei : A Policy Specification Language
  7. Securing the Semantic Web: A Trust Management Approach
  8. Trauma Pod

Publications

2008

  1. S. Gupta, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "A Framework for Secure Knowledge Management in Pervasive Computing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Secure Knowledge Management, November 2008, 2701 downloads.
  2. O. Walavalkar, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Streaming Knowledge Bases", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web knowledge Base Systems, October 2008, 4698 downloads, 70 citations.
  3. S. Gupta, "Trust-based Data Management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", MastersThesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, July 2008, 2151 downloads.
  4. S. Gupta, A. Joshi, and A. Patwardhan, "Query Distribution Estimation and Predictive Caching in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Seventh International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, June 2008, 3051 downloads, 1 citation.

2007

  1. S. Agarwal, A. Joshi, T. Finin, Y. Yesha, and T. Ganous, "A Pervasive Computing System for the Operating Room of the Future", Article, Mobile Networks and Applications, August 2007, 4066 downloads.

2006

  1. S. Agarwal, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "A Pervasive Computing System for the Operating Room of the Future", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, September 2006, 5306 downloads.
  2. N. Vartak, A. Patwardhan, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and P. Nagy, "Protecting the privacy of passive RFID tags", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, September 2006, 3601 downloads.
  3. A. Patwardhan, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "A Data Intensive Reputation Management Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks", InProceedings, Second International Workshop on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications, Third Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services, July 2006, 4577 downloads, 10 citations.
  4. S. Agarwal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Context-Aware System to Create Electronic Medical Records", TechReport, July 2006, 3580 downloads.
  5. A. Patwardhan, F. Perich, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Querying in Packs: Trustworthy Data Management in Ad Hoc Networks", Article, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, June 2006, 4553 downloads, 5 citations.
  6. L. Kagal, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and S. Greenspan, "Security and Privacy Challenges in Open and Dynamic Environments", Article, IEEE Computer, June 2006, 3436 downloads.
  7. S. Agarwal, "Context-Aware System to Create Electronic Medical Encounter Records", MastersThesis, May 2006, 3166 downloads, 2 citations.
  8. N. Vartak, "Protecting the privacy of RFID tags", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2006, 3556 downloads.
  9. J. Parker, A. Patwardhan, F. Perich, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Trust in Pervasive Computing", Article, The Handbook of Mobile Middleware , February 2006, 2377 downloads, 1 citation.
  10. D. Chakraborty, A. Joshi, Y. Yesha, and T. Finin, "Toward Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing , February 2006, 3368 downloads, 142 citations.

2005

  1. A. Patwardhan, F. Perich, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Active Collaborations for Trustworthy Data Management in Ad Hoc Networks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems, November 2005, 3999 downloads, 11 citations.
  2. 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, 3118 downloads, 29 citations.
  3. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing", InBook, Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences, July 2005, 6624 downloads, 70 citations.
  4. R. Masuoka, M. Chopra, Z. Song, Y. K. Labrou, L. Kagal, and T. Finin, "Policy-based Access Control for Task Computing Using Rei", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Policy Management for the Web Workshop, May 2005, 3436 downloads, 15 citations.
  5. M. Chopra, "Applying Policy Based Access Control and XML Digital Signatures for Security in Pervasive Computing Environments", MastersThesis, May 2005, 3110 downloads.
  6. F. Perich, A. Joshi, Y. Yesha, and T. Finin, "Collaborative Joins in a Pervasive Computing Environment", Article, VLDB Journal, April 2005, 4875 downloads, 15 citations.
  7. D. Chakraborty, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Service Composition for Mobile Environments", Article, Journal on Mobile Networking and Applications, Special Issue on Mobile Services, January 2005, 5364 downloads, 67 citations.

2004

  1. H. Chen, "An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2004, 8125 downloads, 17 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, 5892 downloads, 156 citations.
  3. L. Kagal, "A Policy-Based Approach to Governing Autonomous Behavior in Distributed Environments", PhdThesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, September 2004, 10 citations.
  4. H. Chen, F. Perich, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "SOUPA: Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications", InProceedings, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, August 2004, 12400 downloads, 342 citations.
  5. 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, 3651 downloads, 73 citations.
  6. T. Finin, "Agents Meet the Semantic Web on the Wire and in the Aether", Presentation slides, AAAI, July 2004, 292 downloads.
  7. H. Chen, F. Perich, D. Chakraborty, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Intelligent Agents Meet Semantic Web in a Smart Meeting Room", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2004), July 2004, 6353 downloads, 81 citations.
  8. D. Chakraborty, A. Joshi, Y. Yesha, and T. Finin, "Towards Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, July 2004, 4379 downloads, 29 citations.
  9. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "A Pervasive Computing Ontology for User Privacy Protection in the Context Broker Architecture", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 2004, 5284 downloads.
  10. F. Perich, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "On Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, May 2004, 6352 downloads, 82 citations.
  11. F. Perich, "On Peer-to-Peer Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments", PhdThesis, UMBC, May 2004, 2162 downloads.
  12. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing", InBook, Ontologies for agents: Theory and experiences, April 2004, 2490 downloads, 70 citations.
  13. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "A Context Broker for Building Smart Meeting Rooms", Proceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Knowledge Representation and Ontology for Autonomous Systems Symposium, 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium, March 2004, 10079 downloads, 65 citations.
  14. D. Chakraborty and H. Lei, "Pervasive Enablement of Business Processes", InProceedings, 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, January 2004, 3608 downloads, 41 citations.
  15. D. Khushraj, "Semantic Tuple Spaces: A Coordination", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, January 2004.

2003

  1. O. V. Ratsimor, D. Chakraborty, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Service Discovery in Agent-based in Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, Journal on Mobile Networking and Applications, November 2003, 3603 downloads, 38 citations.
  2. V. Hingne, A. Joshi, J. Michopoulos, and E. N. Houstis, "On the Grid and Sensor Networks", InProceedings, Proceedings. First Latin American Web Congress, Phoenix, November 2003, 348 downloads, 15 citations.
  3. J. Undercoffer, F. Perich, A. Cedilnik, L. Kagal, and A. Joshi, "A Secure Infrastructure for Service Discovery and Access in Pervasive Computing", Article, ACM Monet: Special Issue on Security in Mobile Computing Environments, October 2003, 4893 downloads, 44 citations.
  4. 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, 9283 downloads, 111 citations.
  5. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "An Intelligent Broker for Context-Aware Systems", Article, Adjunct Proceedings of Ubicomp 2003, October 2003, 4594 downloads, 3 citations.
  6. 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.
  7. F. Perich, A. Joshi, Y. Yesha, and T. Finin, "Neighborhood-Consistent Transaction Management for Pervasive Computing Environments", InProceedings, 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2003), September 2003, 5259 downloads, 11 citations.
  8. 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, 8300 downloads, 614 citations.
  9. F. Perich, A. Joshi, Y. Yesha, and T. Finin, "Collaborative Joins in a Pervasive Computing Environment", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2003, 4605 downloads.
  10. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems, August 2003, 8628 downloads, 614 citations.
  11. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Using OWL in a Pervasive Computing Broker", Article, Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, AAMAS-2003, July 2003, 3809 downloads, 99 citations.
  12. D. Chakraborty, A. Joshi, Y. Yesha, and T. Finin, "Towards Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, June 2003, 3943 downloads.
  13. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "A Policy Language for A Pervasive Computing Environment", InCollection, IEEE 4th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, June 2003, 5387 downloads, 341 citations.
  14. A. Choudhri, L. Kagal, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "PatientService : Electronic Patient Record Redaction and Delivery in Pervasive Environments", InProceedings, Fifth International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry (Healthcom 2003), June 2003, 1891 downloads, 21 citations.
  15. V. Hingne, A. Joshi, T. Finin, H. Kargupta, and E. N. Houstis, "Towards a Pervasive Grid", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Int. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium , April 2003, 1929 downloads.
  16. S. Avancha, P. D'Souza, F. Perich, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "P2P M-Commerce in Pervasive Environments", Article, ACM SIGecom Exchanges, January 2003, 5447 downloads, 16 citations.

2002

  1. D. Chakraborty and A. Joshi, "Anamika: Distributed Service Composition Architecture for Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, Mobile Computing Communications Review (MC2R), December 2002, 3459 downloads.
  2. 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, December 2002, 4338 downloads, 17 citations.
  3. S. Avancha, V. Korolev, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "On Experiments with a Transport Protocol for Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, Computer Networks, November 2002, 3388 downloads, 3 citations.
  4. D. Chakraborty, F. Perich, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "A Reactive Service Composition Architecture for Pervasive Computing Environments", InProceedings, Seventh Personal Wireless Communications Conference (PWC 2002), October 2002, 4672 downloads, 82 citations.
  5. L. Kagal, F. Perich, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and J. Undercoffer, "A Security Architecture Based on Trust Management for Pervasive Computing Systems", InProceedings, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 2002, 6093 downloads, 30 citations.
  6. 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, 3553 downloads.
  7. 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, 4617 downloads, 218 citations.
  8. F. Perich, S. Avancha, D. Chakraborty, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Profile Driven Data Management for Pervasive Environments", InProceedings, 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002), September 2002, 5200 downloads, 41 citations.
  9. 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, 1985 downloads.
  10. L. Kagal, J. Undercoffer, F. Perich, A. Joshi, Y. Yesha, and T. Finin, "Vigil: Providing Trust for Enhanced Security in Pervasive Systems", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2002, 5823 downloads, 11 citations.
  11. L. Kagal, "An Agent Approach to Security for Pervasive Computing Environments", InProceedings, Doctoral Consortium, The Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 02), July 2002.
  12. H. Chen and T. Finin, "Beyond Distributed AI, Agent Teamwork in Ubiquitous Computing", Article, Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on Embedded, Wearable, and Mobile Devices, AAMAS-2002, July 2002, 3698 downloads, 9 citations.
  13. 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, 1170 downloads.
  14. 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, 401 downloads.
  15. D. Chakraborty, F. Perich, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "A Reactive Service Composition Architecture for Pervasive Computing Environments", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, March 2002, 5055 downloads.
  16. H. Chen, S. Tolia, C. Sayers, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Creating Context-Aware Software Agents", InProceedings, Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, First International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, January 2002, 4242 downloads, 30 citations.
  17. S. Avancha, D. Chakraborty, H. Chen, L. Kagal, F. Perich, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Issues in Data Management for Pervasive Environments", InProceedings, NSF Workshop on Context-Aware Mobile Database Management, January 2002, 4653 downloads, 2 citations.
  18. A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Agents, Mobility, and M-services: Creating the Next Generation Applications and Infrastructure on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks", InBook, Developing an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems, January 2002, 1301 downloads.

2001

  1. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Trust-Based Security in Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, IEEE Computer, December 2001, 9760 downloads, 214 citations.
  2. S. Avancha, D. Chakraborty, L. Kagal, F. Perich, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "An Integrated Architecture for Secure Information Discovery, Composition and Management in Pervasive Environments", TechReport, UMBC, December 2001, 442 downloads.
  3. T. Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, O. V. Ratsimor, and V. Korolev, "Information Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop Cooperative Information Agents, September 2001, 5377 downloads, 17 citations.
  4. A. Cedilnik, L. Kagal, F. Perich, J. Undercoffer, and A. Joshi, "A Secure Infrastructure for Service Discovery and Access in Pervasive Computing", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2001, 4834 downloads.
  5. L. Kagal, V. Korolev, H. Chen, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Centaurus : A Framework for Intelligent Services in a Mobile Environment", InProceedings, International Workshop of Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing at the 21st International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems, April 2001, 7063 downloads, 57 citations.
  6. H. Chen, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Dynamic Service Discovery for Mobile Computing: Intelligent Agents Meet Jini in the Aether", Article, Cluster Computing, February 2001, 4230 downloads, 69 citations.

Document

  1. A Proposal for Pervasive Computing Standard Ontology

Presentation

  1. AAAI 2004 talk (Finin)
  2. Agent approaches to Security, Trust and Privacy in Pervasive Computing
  3. An Intelligent Broker for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems
  4. Context Aware Surgical Training Environment
  5. Development of Task Computing Applications and Devices
  6. MATA 2005 keynote
  7. Ontologies for mobile and pervasive computing
  8. pervasive and wearable computing research
  9. Semantic Web Technologies: A Tutorial
  10. What comes next?

Web Site

  1. CoBrA
  2. MoGATU
  3. Semantic Web in UbiComp SIG

Old News

  1. Finin gives invited talk at AAAI 2004
    August 27, 2004
  2. Three new PhDs
    May 19, 2004
  3. Rod Adkins to speak on IBM's pervasive computing programs
    January 17, 2004
  4. SW-UBICOMP-INTEREST SIG formed
    December 27, 2003
  5. UMBC Participates in CNSF's 9th Annual Capitol Hill Science Exhibition
    June 19, 2003

Old Events

  1. Trust-based Data Management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
    July 8, 2008
  2. A new look at old age: technology, longevity and how we will live tomorrow
    April 12, 2007
  3. Context-Spaces Approach to Building Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Systems
    October 13, 2006
  4. TradeWise
    September 12, 2006
  5. Community web and social networks
    July 13, 2006
  6. Context-Aware System to Create Electronic Medical Encounter Records
    May 3, 2006
  7. A Context Aware Surgical Training Environment
    March 15, 2006
  8. A cost-effective approach to protecting RFID tag identity
    February 22, 2006
  9. OWL leaves the nest
    November 4, 2005
  10. Multiagent Systems meet the Semantic Web in the Aether
    October 18, 2005

Old Conferences

  1. First Workshop on Pervasive Security, Privacy and Trust (PSPT)
    August 26, 2004
  2. UbiComp 2003
    October 12, 2003