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Past Projects

  1. Allia: Alliance-based Service Discovery
  2. An Agent Based Distributed Computing System using XReggie and Ronin
  3. CentaurusComm
  4. DAML / ITTalks
  5. Disconnected Web Browsing
  6. MOWSER: Wireless Web Access
  7. RAP: RDF Access-control Policiies
  8. Ronin Agent Framework
  9. Semantic Service Discovery in Bluetooth
  10. Simulator to evaluate/prototype Local Area and Personal Area Wireless Network Protocols

Publications

2026

  1. J. Clavin, S. Mandlem, and K. P. Joshi, "Addressing Improper Payments in Government Healthcare through Blockchain and Generative AI", Article, Digital Government: Research and Practice, April 2026, 194 downloads.

2023

  1. J. Bolton, L. Elluri, and K. P. Joshi, "An Overview of Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs Mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework Domains", Proceedings, IEEE International conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2023), October 2023, 6335 downloads.
  2. A. Kotal, N. Das, and A. Joshi, "Knowledge Infusion in Privacy Preserving Data Generation", InProceedings, KDD Workshop on Knowledge-infused Learning, 29TH ACM SIGKDD,, August 2023, 599 downloads.

2021

  1. G. Shan, B. Zhao, J. Clavin, H. Zhang, and S. Duan, "Poligraph: Intrusion-Tolerant and Distributed Fake News Detection System", Article, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, November 2021.

2019

  1. 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, 1059 downloads.

2016

  1. 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, 2058 downloads.

2015

  1. S. N. Narayanan, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "Using Data Analytics to Detect Anomalous States in Vehicles", TechReport, December 2015, 2096 downloads.

2011

  1. Z. Syed and T. Finin, "Creating and Exploiting a Hybrid Knowledge Base for Linked Data", InBook, Agents and Artificial Intelligence, April 2011, 2634 downloads.

2010

  1. 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, 2644 downloads.
  2. L. Ding, J. Shinavier, T. Finin, and D. L. McGuinness, "owl:sameAs and Linked Data: An Empirical Study", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second Web Science Conference, April 2010, 3284 downloads, 5 citations.
  3. Z. Syed, , and T. Finin, "Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, January 2010, 6630 downloads, 9 citations.

2009

  1. 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, "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. A. Patwardhan, J. Parker, M. Iorga, A. Joshi, T. Karygiannis, and Y. Yesha, "Threshold-based Intrusion Detection in Ad Hoc Networks and Secure AODV", Article, Ad Hoc Networks Journal (ADHOCNET), May 2007, 3636 downloads, 16 citations.

2006

  1. M. A. Grasso, "Handheld computer application for medical disaster management", Proceedings, Proceedings of the AMIA 2006 Annual Fall Symposium, November 2006, 2324 downloads.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. J. Parker, A. Patwardhan, and A. Joshi, "Cross-layer Analysis for Detecting Wireless Misbehaviour", Proceedings, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference Special Sessions, January 2006, 4477 downloads, 13 citations.

2005

  1. 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, 4462 downloads.
  2. M. Burstein, C. Bussler, T. Finin, M. Huhns, M. Paoucci, A. Sheth, S. Williams, and M. Zaremba, "A Semantic Web Services Architecture", Article, IEEE Internet Computing, September 2005, 3763 downloads, 138 citations.
  3. S. Avancha, "A Holistic Approach to Secure Sensor Networks", PhdThesis, UMBC, August 2005, 3709 downloads.
  4. 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.
  5. A. Patwardhan, J. Parker, A. Joshi, M. Iorga, and T. Karygiannis, "Secure Routing and Intrusion Detection in Ad Hoc Networks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, March 2005, 7898 downloads, 96 citations.
  6. 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.
  7. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Towards a Well-Behaved Web", TechReport, UMBC, January 2005, 395 downloads.

2004

  1. 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.
  2. D. Chakraborty, "Service Discovery and Compsition in Pervasive Environments", PhdThesis, Ph.D. Thesis, June 2004, 4705 downloads, 8 citations.
  3. F. Perich, "On Peer-to-Peer Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments", PhdThesis, UMBC, May 2004, 2162 downloads.
  4. J. Parker, J. Pinkston, and A. Joshi, "On Intrusion Detection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", InProceedings, 23rd IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference -- Workshop on Information Assurance , April 2004, 5276 downloads, 15 citations.
  5. J. Parker, J. Undercoffer, J. Pinkston, and A. Joshi, "On intrusion detection and response for mobile ad hoc networks", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Performance, Computing, and Communications, April 2004, 281 downloads.
  6. D. Chakraborty, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Integrating Service Discovery with Routing and Session Management for Ad hoc Networks", Article, Ad Hoc Networks Journal by Elsevier Science, March 2004, 4138 downloads, 9 citations.
  7. D. Chakraborty, Y. Yesha, and A. Joshi, "A Distributed Service Composition Protocol for Pervasive Environments", Proceedings, Wireless Communcations and Networking Conference (WCNC), March 2004, 3669 downloads, 22 citations.
  8. D. Chakraborty, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Integrating service discovery with routing and session management for ad-hoc networks", Article, Ad Hoc Networks, March 2004, 338 downloads, 26 citations.
  9. , "Intrusion Detection: Modeling System State to Detect and Classify Aberrant Behavior", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, February 2004, 7664 downloads.
  10. 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, 3645 downloads, 6 citations.
  11. A. Kunjithapatham, "Personal Agents on Semantic Web", MastersThesis, UMBC, 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. S. Avancha, D. Chakraborty, F. Perich, and A. Joshi, "Data and Services for Mobile Computing", InBook, Handbook of Internet Computing, October 2003, 8104 downloads.
  3. 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, 4588 downloads, 120 citations.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Y. Zou, T. Finin, L. Ding, H. Chen, and R. Pan, "TAGA: Trading Agent Competition in Agentcities", InProceedings, Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, held at 18th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence,, August 2003, 409 downloads.
  7. 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.
  8. 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. 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.
  2. S. Rajavaram, H. Shah, V. Shanbhag, J. Undercoffer, and A. Joshi, "Neighborhood Watch: An Intrusion Detection and Response Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", TechReport, UMBC, October 2002.
  3. O. V. Ratsimor, D. Chakraborty, S. Tolia, D. Khushraj, A. Kunjithapatham, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Allia: Alliance-based Service Discovery for Ad-Hoc Environments", InProceedings, ACM Mobile Commerce Workshop, September 2002, 3352 downloads, 132 citations.
  4. 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.
  5. S. Avancha, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enhanced Service Discovery in Bluetooth", Article, IEEE Computer, June 2002, 3333 downloads, 61 citations.
  6. 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. 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.
  2. S. Avancha, V. Korolev, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Transport Protocols in Wireless Networks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, October 2001, 4700 downloads, 6 citations.
  3. S. Avancha, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enhancing the Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2001, 2344 downloads.
  4. V. Korolev and A. Joshi, "An End-End Approach to Wireless Web Access", InProceedings, Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing 2001, Workshop of 21st IEEE Intl. Conf. Distributed Computing Systems, April 2001, 376 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.

2000

  1. A. Joshi, "On Proxy Agents, Mobility, and Web Access", Article, ACM/Baltzer Journal of Mobile Networks and Nomadic Applications (MONET), December 2000, 3298 downloads, 77 citations.
  2. L. Kagal, V. Korolev, H. Chen, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Project Centaurus: A Framework for Indoor Mobile Services", TechReport, UMBC, November 2000, 485 downloads.
  3. 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, 3100 downloads, 30 citations.
  4. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "History, State of the Art and Challenges for Agent Communication Languages", Article, Informatik/Informatique, January 2000, 2964 downloads, 9 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, 604 downloads.
  2. R. S. Cost, "A framework for developing conversational agents", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 1999, 1243 downloads.
  3. Y. Chen, Y. Peng, T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, B. Chu, J. Yao, R. Sun, and R. Wilhelm, "A negotiation-based Multi-agent System for Supply Chain Management", InProceedings, Workshop on supply chain management, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, April 1999, 1327 downloads.

1998

  1. M. A. Rabi, "Relationships among security and algebraic properties of cryptographic objects, and a security infrastructure for agent communication languages", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 1998, 804 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language", Readings in Agents, January 1998, 363 downloads.

1997

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), August 1997, 503 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, 4th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, July 1997, 452 downloads.
  3. J. Mayfield and T. Finin, "A Security Architecture for Agent Communication Languages", TechReport, UMBC, January 1997, 399 downloads.

1996

  1. Y. K. Labrou, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", PhdThesis, UMBC, August 1996, 595 downloads, 234 citations.
  2. T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, and J. Mayfield, "Evaluating KQML as an agent communication language", InBook, Intelligent Agents II -- Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, January 1996, 2566 downloads, 47 citations.
  3. J. Mayfield, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language", InCollection, Intelligent Agents Volume II - 1995 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, January 1996, 792 downloads.

1995

  1. C. Thirunavukkarasu, T. Finin, and J. Mayfield, "Secret Agents - A Security Architecture for the KQML Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, CIKM'95 Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, October 1995, 697 downloads.
  2. C. Thirunavukkarasu, T. Finin, A. Potluri, D. P. McKay, and R. McEntire, "On Agent Domains, Agent Names and Proxy Agents", InProceedings, ACM CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, October 1995, 992 downloads.
  3. J. Mayfield, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages", InProceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium on Information Gathering in Distributed Environments, March 1995, 549 downloads.

1994

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "A semantics approach for KQML -- a general purpose communication language for software agents", InProceedings, Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 1994, 639 downloads.
  2. T. Finin, R. Fritzson, D. P. McKay, and R. McEntire, "KQML as an agent communication language", InProceedings, Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management , October 1994, 6474 downloads, 2225 citations.
  3. T. Finin, D. P. McKay, R. Fritzson, and R. McEntire, "KQML - A Language and Protocol for Knowledge and Information Exchange", InBook, Knowledge Building and Knowledge Sharing, September 1994, 798 downloads.
  4. T. Finin, R. Fritzson, D. P. McKay, and R. McEntire, "KQML - A Language and Protocol for Knowledge and Information Exchange", InProceedings, 13th Int. Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop, July 1994, 1668 downloads.

1992

  1. T. Finin, R. Fritzson, and D. P. McKay, "A Language and Protocol to Support Intelligent Agent Interoperability", InProceedings, 4th National Symp. on Concurrent Engineering, CE & CALS, June 1992, 1398 downloads.
  2. H. Chalupsky, T. Finin, R. Fritzson, D. P. McKay, S. C. Shapiro, and G. Wiedehold, "An Overview of KQML: A Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language", TechReport, UMBC, April 1992, 198 downloads.

Presentation

  1. Creating and exploiting a web of (semantic) data
  2. Cross-layer Analysis for Detecting Wireless Misbehavior
  3. Cross-layer Analysis for Detecting Wireless Misbehavior
  4. MATA 2005 keynote
  5. Semantically Rich, Policy Based Framework to Automate Lifecycle of Cloud Based Services

Document

  1. Introducing Semantic Technologies and the Vision of the Semantic Web

Old News

  1. Three new PhDs
    May 19, 2004

Old Events

  1. A Collaborative Approach to Situational Awareness for CyberSecurity
    April 29, 2013
  2. Identification of common best practices in Stem Cell Preparation
    April 5, 2012
  3. Recovering from Internet Routing Failures using Declarative Policies and Argumentation Protocols
    April 13, 2010
  4. Privacy Preserving Distributed Data Mining: A Multi-objective Optimization and Algorithmic Game-theoretic Approach
    September 16, 2009
  5. Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data
    August 5, 2009
  6. Creating and exploiting a web of (semantic) data
    May 1, 2009
  7. A Game Theoretic Framework for Distributed Multi-Party Privacy Preserving Data Mining
    November 19, 2007
  8. Cross-layer Analysis for Detecting Wireless Misbehavior
    October 19, 2005
  9. Multiagent Systems meet the Semantic Web in the Aether
    October 18, 2005
  10. A Holistic Approach to Secure Sensor Networks
    July 28, 2005