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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, 114 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, 2143 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, 1492 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, 978 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, 531 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, 745 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, 758 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, 895 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, 685 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, 1222 downloads.
  4. J. Sleeman, T. Finin, and M. Halem, "Understanding Cybersecurity Threat Trends through Dynamic Topic Modeling", Article, Frontiers in Big Data, June 2021, 610 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, 402 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, 740 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, 767 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, 895 downloads.
  3. S. Mittal, "Knowledge for Cyber Threat Intelligence", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2019, 726 downloads.
  4. S. Mittal, "Knowledge for Cyber Threat Intelligence", PhdThesis, May 2019, 371 downloads.
  5. M. M. Rahman, S. Hisamoto, and K. Duh, "Query Expansion for Cross-Language Question Re-Ranking", Article, arXiv:1904.07982, April 2019, 599 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, 1739 downloads.

2017

  1. S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Thinking, Fast and Slow: Combining Vector Spaces and Knowledge Graphs", TechReport, arXiv, August 2017, 1924 downloads.
  2. P. K. Das, "Context-Dependent Privacy and Security Management on Mobile Devices", PhdThesis, Ph.D. Dissertation, August 2017, 1401 downloads.
  3. S. Mittal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Thinking, Fast and Slow: Combining Vector Spaces and Knowledge Graphs", Article, CoRR, August 2017, 1467 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, 3138 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, 1506 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, 2013 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, 3075 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, 1496 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, 1535 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, 1610 downloads.
  2. L. Han, "Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2014, 1890 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, 2041 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, 1726 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, 2884 downloads.

2010

  1. V. Mulwad, "T2LD - An automatic framework for extracting, interpreting and representing tables as Linked Data", MastersThesis, UMBC, August 2010, 4095 downloads.
  2. Z. Syed, "Wikitology: A novel hybrid knowledge base derived from wikipedia", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2010, 1805 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, 2608 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, 57381 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, 4656 downloads, 70 citations.
  3. S. Gupta, "Trust-based Data Management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", MastersThesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, July 2008, 2116 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, 3015 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, 2972 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, 1949 downloads.
  4. S. Balijepalli, "Blogvox2: A Modular Domain Independent Sentiment Analysis System", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, June 2007, 8645 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, 6681 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, 2482 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, 4715 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, 8597 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, 7794 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, 4526 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, 8762 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, 2665 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, 3713 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, 4843 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, 4931 downloads, 32 citations.
  2. F. Perich, "On Peer-to-Peer Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments", PhdThesis, UMBC, May 2004, 2155 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, 5190 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, 4578 downloads.
  3. X. Luan, Y. Peng, and T. Finin, "Learning in the Broker Agent", InBook, Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, January 2003, 1602 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, 3832 downloads, 147 citations.
  2. S. Avancha, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enhanced Service Discovery in Bluetooth", Article, IEEE Computer, June 2002, 3298 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, 415 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, 5233 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, 384 downloads.
  4. S. Avancha, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enhancing the Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2001, 2306 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, 2940 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, 373 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, 654 downloads.
  3. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language", Readings in Agents, January 1998, 351 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, 476 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, 1297 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, 47 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, 429 downloads.
  5. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "A Proposal for a new KQML Specification", TechReport, TR CS-97-03, February 1997, 194 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, 419 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", PhdThesis, UMBC, August 1996, 575 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, 2549 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, 761 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, 1862 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, 520 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, 575 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, 5879 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, 753 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, 1637 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, 1361 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, 176 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, 4538 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