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Past Projects

  1. MagicWeaver: An Agent Based Simulation Framework For Wireless Sensor Networks
  2. Text and Ontology Driven Clinical Decision Support System
  3. XPod

Publications

2026

  1. Z. Ahmed and K. P. Joshi, "Ontology Driven Agentic System for Automating Security Compliance in Medical Cyber-Physical WBANs", InProceedings, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH), 2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES, July 2026, 262 downloads.

2025

  1. S. Chukkapalli, D. Ledbetter, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and J. Freeman, "Impostors Among Us: An Agentic Approach to Identifying and Resolving Conflicts in Collaborative Network Environments", InProceedings, IEEE Military Communications Conference, October 2025, 725 downloads.
  2. P. Shukla and M. Halem, "DUNE: A Machine Learning Deep UNET++ based ensemble Approach to Monthly, Seasonal and Annual Climate Forecasting", Article, Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, October 2025, 2034 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, 829 downloads.
  2. K. Darvish, E. Raff, F. Ferraro, and C. Matuszek, "Multimodal Language Learning for Object Retrieval in Low Data Regimes in the Face of Missing Modalities", Article, Transactions on Machine Learning Research, October 2023, 622 downloads.

2022

  1. M. Halem, a. kochanski, J. Mandel, P. Nguyen, R. Atlas, Z. Yang, A. Bargteil, J. Sleeman, V. Caicedo, B. Demoz, D. Chapman, and K. Patel, "A Machine Learning Plume-Resolving Model Implementation over North America for Mega-Wildland Fire Smoke Impacts on Distant Planetary Boundary Layers", InProceedings, 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 2022.

2021

  1. K. Patel, J. Sleeman, and M. Halem, "Physics-aware deep edge detection network", InProceedings, Proceedings Volume 11859, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XXVI; SPIE Remote Sensing, September 2021, 794 downloads.
  2. S. Chukkapalli, N. Pillai, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "Cyber-Physical System Security Surveillance using Knowledge Graph based Digital Twins - A Smart Farming Usecase", InProceedings, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2021, August 2021, 2002 downloads.
  3. M. Murnane, P. Higgins, M. Saraf, F. Ferraro, C. Matuszek, and D. Engel, "A Simulator for Human-Robot Interaction in Virtual Reality", InProceedings, Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), March 2021, 1350 downloads.
  4. S. Chukkapalli, S. Aziz, N. Alotaibi, S. Mittal, M. Gupta, and M. Abdelsalam, "Ontology driven AI and Access Control Systems for Smart Fisheries", TechReport, January 2021, 1195 downloads.

2020

  1. S. N. Narayanan, A. Joshi, and R. Bose, "ABATe: Automatic Behavioral Abstraction Technique to Detect Anomalies in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems", InProceedings, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, October 2020, 1728 downloads.
  2. S. Chukkapalli, S. Mittal, M. Gupta, M. Abdelsalam, A. Joshi, R. Sandhu, and K. P. Joshi, "Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Systems for the Cooperative Smart Farming Ecosystem", InCollection, IEEE Access, September 2020, 1001 downloads.
  3. S. Dutta, S. Chukkapalli, M. Sulgekar, S. Krithivasan, P. K. Das, and A. Joshi, "Context Sensitive Access Control in Smart Home Environments", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020), May 2020, 4674 downloads.
  4. R. Ayanzadeh, "Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Advance Problem-Solving with Quantum Annealers", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2020, 1171 downloads.
  5. S. Chukkapalli, A. Piplai, S. Mittal, M. Gupta, and A. Joshi, "A Smart-Farming Ontology for Attribute Based Access Control", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020), March 2020, 1364 downloads.

2019

  1. 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, 865 downloads.
  2. J. Sleeman, M. Halem, and J. E. Dorband, "RBM Image Generation Using the D-Wave 2000Q", Misc, D-Wave Qubits North America Conference, September 2019, 946 downloads.
  3. C. Kery, F. Ferraro, and C. Matuszek, "¿Es un plátano? Exploring the Application of a Physically Grounded Language Acquisition System to Spanish", NAACL Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics, June 2019, 913 downloads.
  4. S. N. Narayanan, "A Framework for Detecting Anomalous Behaviors in Smart Cyber-physical Systems", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2019, 705 downloads.
  5. S. N. Narayanan, "A Framework for Detecting Anomalous Behaviors in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems", PhdThesis, May 2019, 2219 downloads.

2018

  1. S. N. Narayanan, K. Khanna, B. K. Panigrahi, and A. Joshi, "Security in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: A Case Study on Smart Grids and Smart Cars", InBook, Smart Cities Cybersecurity and Privacy, December 2018, 1394 downloads.
  2. N. Pillai, F. Ferraro, and C. Matuszek, "Optimal Semantic Distance for Negative Example Selection in Grounded Language Acquisition", Workshop on Models and Representations for Natural Human-Robot Communication (Robotics: Science and Systems), June 2018, 831 downloads.

2017

  1. J. Sleeman, "Dynamic Data Assimilation for Topic Modeling (DDATM)", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 2017.
  2. A. Banerjee, R. Dalal, S. Mittal, and K. P. Joshi, "Generating Digital Twin models using Knowledge Graphs for Industrial Production Lines", InProceedings, Workshop on Industrial Knowledge Graphs, co-located with the 9th International ACM Web Science Conference 2017, June 2017, 3311 downloads.

2016

  1. P. K. Das, A. L. Kashyap, G. Singh, C. Matuszek, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Semantic knowledge and privacy in the physical web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology (PrivOn2016) co-located with 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), October 2016, 2830 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, 1844 downloads.
  3. K. Khanna, B. K. Panigrahi, and A. Joshi, "Data Integrity Attack in Smart Grid: Optimized Attack to Gain Monetary Economic Profit", Article, IET Transactions on Generation, Transmission and Distribution, September 2016, 1880 downloads.
  4. K. P. Joshi, Y. Yesha, and T. Finin, "An Ontology for a HIPAA compliant cloud service", InProceedings, 4th International IBM Cloud Academy Conference ICACON 2016, June 2016, 2702 downloads.
  5. P. K. Das, S. N. Narayanan, N. K. Sharma, A. Joshi, K. P. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Context-Sensitive Policy Based Security in Internet of Things", InProceedings, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), May 2016, 2367 downloads.
  6. S. N. Narayanan, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "OBD SecureAlert: An Anomaly Detection System for Vehicles", InProceedings, IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2016), May 2016, 2178 downloads.
  7. M. L. Mathews, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Detecting Botnets Using a Collaborative Situational-aware IDPS", InProceedings, Second International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, February 2016, 2137 downloads.
  8. C. Grasso, A. Joshi, and E. Siegel, "Visualization of Pain Severity Events Using Semantic Structures", InProceedings, 10th International Conference on Semantic Computing, February 2016, 1386 downloads.

2015

  1. A. Grover, J. Gholap, V. P. Janeja, Y. Yesha, R. Chintalapati, H. Marwaha, and K. Modi, "SQL-like big data environments: Case study in clinical trial analytics", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, November 2015, 1973 downloads.
  2. 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, 1469 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, 1356 downloads.
  4. L. Zavala, P. K. Murukannaiah, N. Poosamani, T. Finin, A. Joshi, I. Rhee, and M. Singh, "Platys: From Position to Place-Oriented Mobile Computing", Article, AI Magazine, June 2015, 1620 downloads.

2014

  1. P. Pappachan, R. Yus, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Rafiki: A Semantic and Collaborative Approach to Community Health-care in Underserved Areas", InProceedings, 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2014), October 2014, 2121 downloads.
  2. P. Pappachan, R. Yus, P. K. Das, T. Finin, E. Mena, and A. Joshi, "A Semantic Context-Aware Privacy Model for FaceBlock", InProceedings, Second International Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology (PrivOn 2014), Riva del Garda (Italy), October 2014, 3775 downloads.
  3. P. Pappachan, "A Semantic and Collaborative Approach to Community Health-care in Underserved Areas", MastersThesis, UMBC, July 2014, 1781 downloads.
  4. A. A. Krisnadhi, R. Arko, S. Carbotte, C. Chandler, M. Cheatham, T. Finin, P. Hitzler, K. Janowicz, T. Narock, L. Raymond, A. Shepherd, and P. Wiebe, "An Ontology Pattern for Oceanograhic Cruises: Towards an Oceanograhper's Dream of Integrated Knowledge Discovery", TechReport, June 2014, 1285 downloads.
  5. A. A. Krisnadhi, R. Arko, S. Carbotte, C. Chandler, T. Finin, M. Cheatham, P. Hitzler, K. Janowicz, T. Narock, L. Raymond, A. Shepherd, and P. Wiebe, "An Ontology Pattern for Oceanographic Cruises: Towards an Oceanographer's Dream of Integrated Knowledge Discovery", TechReport, Wright State University, January 2014, 559 downloads.

2013

  1. D. Dhariwal, A. Joshi, and M. A. Grasso, "Text and Ontology Driven Clinical Decision Support System", Proceedings, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, October 2013, 1551 downloads.

2012

  1. W. Li, P. A. Kodeswaran, P. Jagtap, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Managing and Securing Critical Infrastructure - A Semantic Policy and Trust Driven Approach", InBook, Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure: Foundations and Challenges, January 2012, 2120 downloads.

2011

  1. F. Zafar, D. Ghosh, L. Sebald, and S. Zhou, "Accelerating a climate physics model with OpenCL", InProceedings, 2011 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (SAAHPC'11), July 2011, 1949 downloads.
  2. D. Dalvi, "Clinical-Genomic Analysis for Disease Prediction", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 2011, 1983 downloads.
  3. W. Li, P. Jagtap, L. Zavala, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "CARE-CPS: Context-Aware tRust Evaluation for Wireless Networks in Cyber-Physical System Using Policies", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, June 2011, 2636 downloads.

2010

  1. P. A. Kodeswaran, F. Perich, W. Li, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enforcing Secure and Robust Routing with Declarative Policies", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2010 Military Communications Conference, October 2010, 2361 downloads, 1 citation.
  2. P. A. Kodeswaran, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and F. Perich, "A Declarative Approach for Secure and Robust Routing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Assurable & Usable Security Configuration , October 2010, 2706 downloads.
  3. 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, 1571 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, 2657 downloads.
  2. K. P. Joshi, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Quality metrics for Virtualized IT Services on the Cloud", InProceedings, Proceedings of 18th Annual Frontiers in Service Conference, Hawaii, 2009, October 2009.
  3. A. Joshi, Y. Yesha, T. Finin, W. Li, and P. A. Kodeswaran, "A Policy and Trust Driven Framework for Securing Cyber Physical Systems", InProceedings, Workshop on Future Directions in Cyber-physical Systems Security, July 2009, 701 downloads.
  4. e. and M. M. Rahman, "Synthesis of fault tolerant reversible logic circuits", InProceedings, EEE Circuits and Systems International Conference on Testing and Diagnosis, April 2009.

2008

  1. 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.
  2. M. A. Grasso, "A computerized approach to glycemic control in critical illness", Proceedings, American College of Physicians, Maryland Regional Associates Meeting, Baltimore Maryland, May 2008.

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, 4202 downloads.
  2. A. Java, P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Joshi, J. Martineau, and J. Mayfield, "The BlogVox Opinion Retrieval System", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), February 2007, 4812 downloads, 7 citations.
  3. S. Dornbush, J. English, T. Oates, Z. Segall, and A. Joshi, "XPod: A Human Activity Aware Learning Mobile Music Player", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Ambient Intelligence, 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2007), January 2007, 4767 downloads, 13 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, 4948 downloads, 1 citation.
  2. 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, 5396 downloads.
  3. 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, 3669 downloads.
  4. S. Agarwal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Context-Aware System to Create Electronic Medical Records", TechReport, July 2006, 3637 downloads.
  5. S. Gupta, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Context-Aware System to Create Electronic Medical Encounter Records", TechReport, UMBC, July 2006, 230 downloads.
  6. B. Aleman-Meza, M. Nagarajan, C. Ramakrishnan, A. Sheth, B. Arpinar, L. Ding, P. Kolari, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference,, May 2006, 4551 downloads, 106 citations.
  7. S. Agarwal, "Context-Aware System to Create Electronic Medical Encounter Records", MastersThesis, May 2006, 3228 downloads, 2 citations.
  8. N. Vartak, "Protecting the privacy of RFID tags", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2006, 3607 downloads.

2005

  1. S. Dornbush, K. Fisher, K. McKay, A. Prikhodko, and Z. Segall, "XPod a human activity and emotion aware mobile music player", InProceedings, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, November 2005, 8371 downloads, 18 citations.
  2. S. B. Kodeswaran and A. Joshi, "Using Location Information for Scheduling in 802.15.3 MAC", InProceedings, 2nd International Conference on Broadband Networks (BROADNETS 2005), October 2005, 4571 downloads.
  3. M. Halem and R. Schauer, "A Mass Storage System Administrator Autonomic Assistant", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing, June 2005, 2732 downloads.

2004

  1. F. Perich, "On Peer-to-Peer Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments", PhdThesis, UMBC, May 2004, 2228 downloads.

2003

  1. A. Joshi, J. Undercoffer, and H. Shah, "Fuzzy Clustering for Intrusion Detection", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, April 2003, 787 downloads, 51 citations.

2002

  1. 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, 3219 downloads, 19 citations.
  2. 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, 6197 downloads, 30 citations.
  3. 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, 3617 downloads.
  4. S. Tolia, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "MagicWeaver: An Agent-Based Simulation Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks", InProceedings, Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents for Mobile, Embedded and Wearable Devices, August 2002, 3693 downloads, 1 citation.

2001

  1. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Trust-Based Security in Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, IEEE Computer, December 2001, 9889 downloads, 214 citations.
  2. H. Chen and S. Tolia, "Steps Towards Creating a Context-Aware Agent System", TechReport, September 2001, 3523 downloads, 21 citations.

2000

  1. H. Chen, T. Finin, A. Joshi, D. Chakraborty, and L. Xu, "Service Discovery in the Future Electronic Market", Article, Workshop on Knowledge-based Electronic Markets, AAAI-2000, July 2000, 3167 downloads, 30 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, 658 downloads.

1987

  1. T. Finin and D. Klein, "On the Requirements of Active Expert Systems", Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Expert Systems and their Applications (Avignon '87), May 1987, 424 downloads.

1977

  1. T. Finin, "An Interpreter and Compiler for Augmented Transition Networks", MastersThesis, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, July 1977, 882 downloads.

1945

  1. V. Bush, "As We May Think", Article, The Atlantic, 214 downloads.

Presentation

  1. A Different Kind of Social Physics
  2. Extracting Cybersecurity related entities, terms and concepts from text.
  3. NOWHERE: A Knowledge Level Agent Programming Infrastructure
  4. Ontologies -- what, why and how
  5. Predicting food web connectivity: Phylogenetic scope, evidence thresholds, and intelligent agents
  6. Protecting the privacy of RFID tags

Ontology

  1. Sensor Node Ontology

Masters Thesis

  1. Text and Ontology Driven Clinical Decision Support System

Old News

  1. UMBC researchers investigate the Blogosphere
    September 5, 2006
  2. McNamee receives best paper award
    August 15, 2005

Old Events

  1. Semantic knowledge and privacy in the physical web
    September 27, 2016
  2. Extracting cybersecurity related entities, terms and concepts from text
    May 28, 2013
  3. Text and Ontology Driven Clinical Decision Support System
    April 23, 2013
  4. Cyber-Physical Social Systems: Research Challenges
    April 6, 2012
  5. Securing Cyber-Physical Systems
    March 26, 2012
  6. talk: Self-sustainable Cyber-physical System Design
    March 13, 2012
  7. High Resolution Decadal Gridding of NASA Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Earth Monitoring Instrument.
    March 1, 2012
  8. Classification of patients using novel multivariate time series representations of physiological data
    November 29, 2011
  9. Masters Thesis Research Update: Aniket Bochare and Rohit Kugaonkar
    November 22, 2011
  10. A Holistic Framework for Securing Wireless Networks and Cyber Physical Systems
    March 8, 2011