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Past Projects

  1. Graph of Relations
  2. MTLD: Interpreting Medical Tables as Linked Data
  3. OWLIR: Information Retrieval On The Semantic Web
  4. Policy Compliant Integration of Linked Data
  5. Security in Mobile Databases
  6. Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web
  7. Semantic Service Discovery in Bluetooth
  8. Vox Blogguli

Publications

2026

  1. K. Echenim and K. P. Joshi, "Deontic Knowledge Graphs for Privacy Compliance in Multimodal Disaster Data Sharing", Article, Arxiv article, January 2026, 234 downloads.

2025

  1. M. Islam, L. Elluri, and K. P. Joshi, "Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Automate IoT Device Security Compliance", InProceedings, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), July 2025, 2430 downloads.

2024

  1. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi, "Leveraging semantic context to establish access controls for secure cloud-based electronic health records", Article, International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, April 2024, 1677 downloads.

2023

  1. P. Ranade and A. Joshi, "FABULA: Intelligence Report Generation Using Retrieval-Augmented Narrative Construction", InProceedings, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, November 2023, 1083 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, 555 downloads.

2022

  1. D. Ghosh, P. Gupta, S. Dixit, and R. Yus, "JENNER: Just-in-time Enrichment in Query Processing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, September 2022, 776 downloads.
  2. D. L. Kim, N. Alodadi, Z. Chen, K. P. Joshi, A. Crainiceanu, and D. Needham, "MATS: A Multi-aspect and Adaptive Trust-based Situation-aware Access Control Framework for Federated Data-as-a-Service Systems", InProceedings, IEEE International Services Computing Conference (SCC) 2022 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2022, July 2022, 798 downloads.

2021

  1. S. Dasgupta, A. Piplai, P. Ranade, and A. Joshi, "Cybersecurity Knowledge Graph Improvement with Graph Neural Networks", InProceedings, International Conference on Big Data, December 2021, 927 downloads.
  2. P. Schubel, Z. Chen, A. Crainiceanu, K. P. Joshi, and D. Needham, "A Semantic Framework for Secure and Efficient Contact Tracing of Infectious Diseases", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2021, December 2021, 738 downloads.
  3. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi, "Secure Cloud EHR with Semantic Access Control, Searchable Encryption and Attribute Revocation", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) 2021 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2021, September 2021, 1312 downloads.
  4. J. Sleeman, T. Finin, and M. Halem, "Understanding Cybersecurity Threat Trends through Dynamic Topic Modeling", Article, Frontiers in Big Data, June 2021, 637 downloads.

2020

  1. M. Sills, P. Ranade, and S. Mittal, "Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Augmentation and Embedding Improvement - A Healthcare Usecase", InProceedings, International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), November 2020, 429 downloads.
  2. S. Oni, Z. Chen, A. Crainiceanu, K. P. Joshi, and D. Needham, "A Framework for Situation-Aware Access Control in Federated Data-as-a-Service Systems Based on Query Rewriting", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC), 2020, October 2020, 762 downloads.

2019

  1. A. S. White, E. Stengel-Eskin, S. Vashishtha, V. Govindarajan, D. Reisinger, T. Vieira, K. Sakaguchi, S. Zhang, F. Ferraro, R. Rudinger, K. Rawlins, and B. Van Durme, "The Universal Decompositional Semantics Dataset and Decomp Toolkit", Article, arXiv:1909.13851 [cs.CL], September 2019, 808 downloads.
  2. S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Cyber-All-Intel: An AI for Security Related Threat Intelligence", TechReport, CoRR abs/1905.02895, May 2019, 1000 downloads.
  3. S. Mittal, "Knowledge for Cyber Threat Intelligence", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2019, 754 downloads.
  4. S. Mittal, "Knowledge for Cyber Threat Intelligence", PhdThesis, May 2019, 389 downloads.
  5. M. M. Rahman, S. Hisamoto, and K. Duh, "Query Expansion for Cross-Language Question Re-Ranking", Article, arXiv:1904.07982, April 2019, 615 downloads.

2018

  1. L. Neil, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "Mining Threat Intelligence about Open-Source Projects and Libraries from Code Repository Issues and Bug Reports", InProceedings, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI) 2018, September 2018, 1773 downloads.

2017

  1. S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Thinking, Fast and Slow: Combining Vector Spaces and Knowledge Graphs", TechReport, arXiv, August 2017, 1995 downloads.
  2. P. K. Das, "Context-Dependent Privacy and Security Management on Mobile Devices", PhdThesis, Ph.D. Dissertation, August 2017, 1436 downloads.
  3. S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Thinking, Fast and Slow: Combining Vector Spaces and Knowledge Graphs", Article, CoRR, August 2017, 1493 downloads.
  4. 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, 3194 downloads.

2015

  1. Z. Syed, L. Han, M. M. Rahman, T. Finin, J. Kukla, and J. Yun, "Querying Large Linked Data Resources", InProceedings, 14th International Semantic Web Conference, October 2015, 1540 downloads.
  2. A. Padia, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Attribute-based Fine Grained Access Control for Triple Stores", InProceedings, 3rd Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology workshop, 14th International Semantic Web Conference, October 2015, 2057 downloads, 20 citations.
  3. L. Han, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and D. Cheng, "Querying RDF Data with Text Annotated Graphs", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, June 2015, 3154 downloads.
  4. Z. Syed, L. Han, M. M. Rahman, T. Finin, J. Kukla, and J. Yun, "UMBC_Ebiquity-SFQ: Schema Free Querying System", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge, ESWC, June 2015, 1520 downloads.
  5. Z. Syed, T. Finin, M. M. Rahman, J. Kukla, and J. Yun, "Discovering and Querying Hybrid Linked Data", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Meets Linked Open Data co-located with 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference, May 2015, 1578 downloads.

2014

  1. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Interpreting Medical Tables as Linked Data to Generate Meta-Analysis Reports", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, August 2014, 1657 downloads.
  2. L. Han, "Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2014, 1908 downloads.

2012

  1. L. Han, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Schema-Free Structured Querying of DBpedia Data", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), August 2012, 2079 downloads.
  2. L. Han, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "GoRelations: Towards an Intuitive Query System for RDF Data", TechReport, TR-CS-11-08, February 2012, 1760 downloads, 20 citations.

2011

  1. L. Han, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "GoRelations: An Intuitive Query System for DBpedia", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, December 2011, 2913 downloads.

2010

  1. V. Mulwad, "T2LD - An automatic framework for extracting, interpreting and representing tables as Linked Data", MastersThesis, UMBC, August 2010, 4134 downloads.
  2. Z. Syed, "Wikitology: A novel hybrid knowledge base derived from wikipedia", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2010, 1831 downloads.

2009

  1. L. Han, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Finding Semantic Web Ontology Terms from Words", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Eigth International Semantic Web Conference, October 2009, 2626 downloads, 3 citations.
  2. L. Han, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Data Integration for E-Science Using Correlated Concepts", InProceedings, Microsoft eScience Workshop 2009, September 2009.
  3. 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. A. Java, "Mining Social Media Communities and Content", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2008, 57420 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. O. Walavalkar, "Streaming Knowledge Bases", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2007, 4 citations.
  2. O. V. Ratsimor, "Opportunistic Bartering of Digital Goods and Services in Pervasive Environments", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2007, 3010 downloads.
  3. X. Zhu, D. Zhang, W. Li, and K. Huang, "A Prediction-Based Fair Replication Algorithm in Structured P2P Systems", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, July 2007, 1974 downloads.
  4. S. Balijepalli, "Blogvox2: A Modular Domain Independent Sentiment Analysis System", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, June 2007, 8676 downloads, 1 citation.
  5. A. Parafiynyk, C. Parr, J. Sachs, and T. Finin, "Adding Semantics to Social Websites for Citizen Science", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic e-Science (AAAI 07), June 2007, 6737 downloads, 3 citations.
  6. Y. Yu and Y. Peng, "Learning the Semantic Meaning of a Concept from the Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, May 2007, 2498 downloads.
  7. 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, 4742 downloads, 7 citations.
  8. P. Reddivari, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Policy-Based Access Control for an RDF Store", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IJCAI-07 Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, January 2007, 8669 downloads, 34 citations.

2006

  1. J. Sachs, C. Parr, A. Parafiynyk, R. Pan, L. Han, L. Ding, T. Finin, A. Hollender, and T. Wang, "Using the Semantic Web to Support Ecoinformatics", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on the Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition , October 2006, 7836 downloads, 6 citations.
  2. 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.
  3. A. Java, T. Finin, and S. Nirenburg, "Text understanding agents and the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2006, 8802 downloads, 19 citations.

2005

  1. M. Halem and R. Schauer, "A Mass Storage System Administrator Autonomic Assistant", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing, June 2005, 2685 downloads.
  2. P. Reddivari, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Policy based Access Control for a RDF Store", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Policy Management for the Web Workshop, May 2005, 3749 downloads, 34 citations.
  3. 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.

2004

  1. F. Perich, J. Undercoffer, L. Kagal, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "In Reputation We Believe: Query Processing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks", InProceedings, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, August 2004, 4959 downloads, 32 citations.
  2. F. Perich, "On Peer-to-Peer Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments", PhdThesis, UMBC, May 2004, 2162 downloads.
  3. A. Kunjithapatham, "Personal Agents on Semantic Web", MastersThesis, UMBC, January 2004.

2003

  1. S. Kallurkar, Y. Shi, R. S. Cost, C. Nicholas, A. Java, and e., "UMBC at TREC 12", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference, November 2003, 5262 downloads, 8 citations.
  2. 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.
  3. X. Luan, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "Learning in the Broker Agent", InBook, Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, January 2003, 1624 downloads.

2002

  1. U. Shah, T. Finin, A. Joshi, J. Mayfield, and R. S. Cost, "Information retrieval on the semantic web", InProceedings, The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 2002, 3859 downloads, 147 citations.
  2. S. Avancha, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enhanced Service Discovery in Bluetooth", Article, IEEE Computer, June 2002, 3333 downloads, 61 citations.

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. F. Perich, S. Avancha, A. Joshi, Y. Yesha, and K. P. Joshi, "Query Routing and Processing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Environments", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, November 2001, 5255 downloads.
  3. R. S. Cost, T. Finin, S. Kallurkar, H. Majithia, C. Nicholas, Y. Shi, and I. Soboroff, "CARROT II: Collaborative Agent-based Routing and Retrieval of Text", TechReport, UMBC, September 2001, 401 downloads.
  4. S. Avancha, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enhancing the Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2001, 2344 downloads.

2000

  1. 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.

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, 398 downloads.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. 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, 1321 downloads.
  3. R. S. Cost, I. Soboroff, J. Lakhani, T. Finin, E. Miller, and C. Nicholas, "Agent Development Support for Tcl", Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop, July 1997, 61 downloads.
  4. 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.
  5. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "A Proposal for a new KQML Specification", TechReport, TR CS-97-03, February 1997, 218 downloads.

1996

  1. D. P. McKay, J. Pastor, R. McEntire, and T. Finin, "An architecture for information agents", InProceedings, Advanced Planning Technology: Technological Achievements of the ARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative, December 1996, 457 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", PhdThesis, UMBC, August 1996, 595 downloads, 234 citations.
  3. 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.
  4. 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. J. Mayfield, T. Finin, R. Narayanaswamy, C. Shah, W. MacCartney, and K. Goolsbey, "The Cycic Friends Network: getting Cyc agents to reason together", InProceedings, Proceedings of the ACM CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, December 1995, 1884 downloads, 50 citations.
  2. 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.

1990

  1. D. P. McKay, T. Finin, and A. O'Hare, "The Intelligent Database Interface: Integrating AI and database systems", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 1990 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 1990, 4564 downloads, 54 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. BlogVox2: Sentiment Detection in Political Blogs
  2. BlogVox2: Sentiment Detection in Political Blogs
  3. SEMDIS: Knowledge Discovery in the Semantic Web
  4. Swoogle poster (June 07)

Presentation

  1. Finding knowledge, data and answers on the Semantic Web
  2. GoRelations: an Intuitive Query System for DBPedia (and LOD)
  3. Learning the Semantic Meaning of a Concept from the Web
  4. Linked Data for the Rest of Us
  5. LOD for the rest of us
  6. Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use
  7. Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use for Sharing Science Data
  8. Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data
  9. Swoogle presentation (April 04)
  10. Text Understanding Agents and the Semantic Web (HICSS06)
  11. The Semantic Web: there and back again
  12. The Social Semantic Web

Source Code

  1. UMBC IOT Android client

Brochure

  1. UMBC Semantic Web Reference Card - v2
  2. UMBC Semantic Web Reference Card - v2 (A4)

Demonstration

  1. Word and phrase similarity

Old News

  1. Parr gives invited talk at ESA 2006
    August 23, 2006
  2. Swoogle 2006 released
    February 1, 2006
  3. SemNews: news text to Semantic Web
    January 12, 2006
  4. Three new PhDs
    May 19, 2004

Old Events

  1. Attribute-based Fine Grained Access Control for Triple Stores
    September 14, 2015
  2. PhD defense: Lushan Han, Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data
    May 23, 2014
  3. The Semantic Web: there and back again
    April 18, 2013
  4. Cloud based Active Archiving Solution for Databases
    November 30, 2012
  5. Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use
    April 1, 2012
  6. Correlation Aware Optimizations for Analytic Databases
    March 9, 2012
  7. Linked Data for the Rest of Us
    January 12, 2012
  8. Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use for Sharing Science Data
    December 6, 2011
  9. Semantic Web Meetup
    November 15, 2011
  10. MD Semantic Web Meetup: semantic integration frameworks
    September 23, 2011

Old Conferences

  1. ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004 Conference
    June 13, 2004