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Active Projects

  1. Medical Device Regulatory Compliance

Past Projects

  1. A Personal Agent Application for the Semantic Web
  2. Bayes OWL
  3. Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA)
  4. DAML
  5. IDE for Rei Policy Language
  6. Ontology Editor for Eclipse
  7. Securing the Semantic Web: A Trust Management Approach
  8. SweetJess
  9. SweetRules
  10. Text and Ontology Driven Clinical Decision Support System
  11. Vigil / Secure Centaurus

Publications

2026

  1. S. Mandlem, J. Clavin, and K. P. Joshi, "Measuring the Compliance Costs of Exchanging Part 2 Healthcare Claims Data Through Blockchain", Article, Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT), March 2026, 39 downloads.

2024

  1. S. Chattoraj and K. P. Joshi, "MedReg-KG: KnowledgeGraph for Streamlining Medical Device Regulatory Compliance", InProceedings, 4th Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Big Data in Conjunction with IEEE BigData 2024, December 2024, 987 downloads.
  2. S. Chattoraj and K. P. Joshi, "Semantically Rich Approach to Automating Regulations of Medical Devices", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) , 2024 at IEEE World Congress on Services 2024, July 2024, 1038 downloads.
  3. A. Kotal, B. Luton, and A. Joshi, "KiNETGAN: Enabling Distributed Network Intrusion Detection through Knowledge-Infused Synthetic Data Generation", TechReport, UMBC, May 2024, 379 downloads.
  4. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and L. Elluri, "Secure and Privacy-Compliant Data Sharing: An Essential Framework for Healthcare Organizations", 10th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing ICMC 2024, January 2024, 782 downloads.

2023

  1. A. Kotal, L. Elluri, D. Gupta, V. Mandalapu, and A. Joshi, "Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Agriculture: Enforcing Policy Rules for Secure and Confidential Data Synthesis", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), December 2023, 2442 downloads.

2022

  1. D. N. Ganapathy and K. P. Joshi, "A Semantically Rich Framework to Automate Cloud Service Level Agreements", Article, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, January 2022, 1356 downloads.

2021

  1. K. Sane, K. P. Joshi, and S. Mittal, "Semantically Rich Framework to Automate Cyber Insurance Services", Article, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, November 2021, 958 downloads.
  2. R. Razavisousan and K. P. Joshi, "Analyzing GDPR compliance in Cloud Services' privacy policies using Textual Fuzzy Interpretive Structural Modeling (TFISM)", InProceedings, IEEE International Services Computing Conference (SCC) 2021 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2021, September 2021, 970 downloads.
  3. L. Elluri, A. Piplai, A. Kotal, A. Joshi, and K. P. Joshi, "A Policy-Driven Approach to Secure Extraction of COVID-19 Data From Research Papers", Article, Frontiers in Big Data, doi: 10.3389/fdata.2021.701966, August 2021, 629 downloads.
  4. A. Nagar, L. Elluri, and K. P. Joshi, "Automated Compliance of Mobile Wallet Payments for Cloud Services", InProceedings, 7th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2021), May 2021, 763 downloads.
  5. D. L. Kim and K. P. Joshi, "A Semantically Rich Knowledge Graph to Automate HIPAA Regulations for Cloud Health IT Services", 7th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2021), May 2021, 1796 downloads.

2020

  1. L. Elluri, K. P. Joshi, and A. Kotal, "Measuring Semantic Similarity across EU GDPR Regulation and Cloud Privacy Policies", InProceedings, 7th International Workshop on Privacy and Security of Big Data (PSBD 2020), in conjunction with 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020), December 2020, 910 downloads.
  2. K. P. Joshi and S. Saha, "A Semantically Rich Framework for Knowledge Representation of Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)", Article, Digital Government: Research and Practice, December 2020, 641 downloads.
  3. K. P. Joshi, L. Elluri, and A. Nagar, "An Integrated Knowledge Graph to Automate Cloud Data Compliance", Article, IEEE Access, November 2020, 1161 downloads.
  4. A. Kotal, K. P. Joshi, and A. Joshi, "ViCLOUD: Measuring Vagueness in Cloud Service Privacy Policies and Terms of Services", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2020, October 2020, 877 downloads.
  5. A. Mahindrakar and K. P. Joshi, "Automating GDPR Compliance using Policy Integrated Blockchain", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020), May 2020, 1768 downloads.
  6. A. Piplai, S. Chukkapalli, and A. Joshi, "NAttack! Adversarial Attacks to bypass a GAN based classifier trained to detect Network intrusion", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, May 2020, 1551 downloads.

2019

  1. S. Oni, Z. Chen, A. Crainiceanu, K. P. Joshi, and D. Needham, "Situation-Aware Access Control in Federated Data-as-a-Service for Maritime Search And Rescue", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC), 2019, July 2019, 953 downloads.
  2. K. Sane, K. P. Joshi, and S. Mittal, "A Semantic Approach for Automating Knowledge in Policies of Cyber Insurance Services", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS) 2019, July 2019, 2180 downloads.
  3. K. P. Joshi and A. Banerjee, "Automating Privacy Compliance Using Policy Integrated Blockchain", Article, Cryptography, Special Issue Advances of Blockchain Technology and Its Applications, February 2019, 1509 downloads.

2018

  1. L. Elluri, A. Nagar, and K. P. Joshi, "An Integrated Knowledge Graph to Automate GDPR and PCI DSS Compliance", IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2018, December 2018, 1991 downloads.
  2. L. Elluri and K. P. Joshi, "A Knowledge Representation of Cloud Data controls for EU GDPR Compliance", InProceedings, 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), July 2018, 1499 downloads.
  3. A. Nagar and K. P. Joshi, "A Semantically Rich Knowledge Representation of PCI DSS for Cloud Services", InProceedings, 6th International IBM Cloud Academy Conference ICACON 2018, Japan, May 2018, 1870 downloads.

2017

  1. S. Saha, K. P. Joshi, R. Frank, M. Aebig, and J. Lin, "Automated Knowledge Extraction from the Federal Acquisition Regulations System (FARS)", InProceedings, 2nd International Workshop on Enterprise Big Data Semantic and Analytics Modeling at IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2017 , December 2017, 1629 downloads.
  2. S. Saha and K. P. Joshi, "Cognitive Assistance for Automating the Analysis of the Federal Acquisition Regulations System", InProceedings, AAAI Fall Symposium 2017, November 2017, 631 downloads.
  3. P. K. Das, "Context-Dependent Privacy and Security Management on Mobile Devices", PhdThesis, Ph.D. Dissertation, August 2017, 1352 downloads.
  4. M. P. Joshi, S. Mittal, K. P. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Semantically Rich, Oblivious Access Control Using ABAC for Secure Cloud Storage", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing, June 2017, 2013 downloads.
  5. S. Mittal, A. Gupta, K. P. Joshi, C. Pearce, and A. Joshi, "A Question and Answering System for Management of Cloud Service Level Agreements", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, June 2017, 1410 downloads.
  6. 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, 3041 downloads.
  7. C. Grasso, "A Semantically Rich Cognitive Search Assistant For Clinical Notes", PhdThesis, UMBC, April 2017, 1370 downloads.

2016

  1. K. P. Joshi, A. Gupta, S. Mittal, C. Pearce, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Semantic Approach to Automating Management of Big Data Privacy Policies", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, December 2016, 2431 downloads.
  2. K. P. Joshi, A. Gupta, S. Mittal, C. Pearce, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "ALDA : Cognitive Assistant for Legal Document Analytics", InProceedings, AAAI Fall Symposium 2016, September 2016, 1491 downloads.
  3. 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, 1709 downloads.
  4. S. Mittal, P. K. Das, V. Mulwad, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "CyberTwitter: Using Twitter to generate alerts for Cybersecurity Threats and Vulnerabilities", InProceedings, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), August 2016, 4586 downloads.
  5. A. Gupta, S. Mittal, K. P. Joshi, C. Pearce, and A. Joshi, "Streamlining Management of Multiple Cloud Services", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, June 2016, 1873 downloads.
  6. 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, 2392 downloads.

2015

  1. Y. Feng, V. P. Janeja, Y. Yesha, N. Rishe, M. A. Grasso, and A. Niskar, "Poster: Classifying primary outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis: Knowledge discovery from clinical trial metadata", InProceedings, 2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), November 2015, 1177 downloads.
  2. M. Ahluwalia, Z. Chen, A. Gangopadhyay, and Y. Yesha, "Target-Based, Privacy Preserving, and Incremental Association Rule Mining", Article, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, November 2015, 1310 downloads.

2014

  1. J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, C. Harmon, T. Finin, and D. Lawrie, "KELVIN: Extracting Knowledge from Large Text Collections", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Natural Language Access to Big Data, November 2014, 1793 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, 3484 downloads.
  3. L. Han, "Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2014, 1856 downloads.

2013

  1. P. McNamee, T. Finin, D. Lawrie, and J. Mayfield, "HLTCOE Participation at TAC 2013", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Sixth Text Analysis Conference, November 2013, 1348 downloads.
  2. 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, 1396 downloads.

2012

  1. K. Weaver, A. Komlodi, J. Wang, K. P. Joshi, and e., "Parents Views And Rules About Technology: As Told By Their Middle School Children in Hungary and India", InProceedings, Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication 2012, June 2012, 1845 downloads.
  2. S. More, "Situation Aware Intrusion Detection Model", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2012, 625 downloads.

2011

  1. 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, 2480 downloads.
  2. K. P. Joshi, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Managing the Quality of Virtualized Services", InProceedings, Proceedings of the SRII Global Conference 2011, March 2011, 2055 downloads.
  3. A. Gupta, K. Viswanathan, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and P. Kumaraguru, "Integrating Linked Open Data with Unstructured Text for Intelligence Gathering Tasks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, March 2011, 2077 downloads.

2010

  1. J. Sleeman and T. Finin, "Computing FOAF Co-reference Relations with Rules and Machine Learning", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Social Data on the Web at ISWC2010, November 2010, 4540 downloads, 30 citations.

2009

  1. S. Zhang, Y. Sun, Y. Peng, and X. Wang, "BayesOWL: A Prototype System for Uncertainty in Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2009, 587 downloads.

2007

  1. S. B. Kodeswaran, O. V. Ratsimor, F. Perich, and A. Joshi, "Utilizing Semantic Tags for Policy Based Networking", InProceedings, IEEE Globecom 2007 Internet Protocol Symposium, November 2007, 3096 downloads, 6 citations.

2006

  1. P. A. Bonatti, L. Ding, T. Finin, and D. Olmedilla, "Proceedings of the Second Semantic Web Policy Workshop", Proceedings, CEUR, November 2006, 4222 downloads.
  2. S. Agarwal, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Context-Aware System to Create Electronic Medical Records", TechReport, July 2006, 3522 downloads.

2005

  1. Z. Ding, "BayesOWL: A Probabilistic Framework for Semantic Web", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2005, 9674 downloads, 10 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, 3042 downloads, 29 citations.
  3. S. Avancha, "A Holistic Approach to Secure Sensor Networks", PhdThesis, UMBC, August 2005, 3636 downloads.
  4. S. Ganjugunte, "Extending the Non-monotonic Reasoning Infrastructure for the Semantic Web via Well-founded Negation and incremental Support for Courteous Logic Programs,", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2005, 3360 downloads.
  5. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Towards a Well-Behaved Web", TechReport, UMBC, January 2005, 317 downloads.

2004

  1. C. Tilmes, M. Linda, and A. J. Fleig, "Development of two Science Investigator-led Processing Systems (SIPS) for NASA's Earth Observation System (EOS)", InProceedings, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004, December 2004, 246 downloads.
  2. Z. Ding, Y. Peng, and R. Pan, "A Bayesian Approach to Uncertainty Modeling in OWL Ontology", InProceedings, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems - Theory and Applications, November 2004, 4508 downloads, 2 citations.
  3. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Declarative Policies for Describing Web Service Capabilities and Constraints", InProceedings, W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services, October 2004, 9069 downloads, 23 citations.
  4. L. Kagal, "A Policy-Based Approach to Governing Autonomous Behavior in Distributed Environments", PhdThesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, September 2004, 10 citations.
  5. 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, 5203 downloads.
  6. A. B. Shah, L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Policy Development Software for Security Policies", InProceedings, DIAMACS Workshop on Usable Privacy and Security Software, July 2004, 307 downloads.
  7. L. Kagal, M. Paoucci, N. Srinivasan, G. Denker, T. Finin, and K. Sycara, "Authorization and Privacy for Semantic Web Services", Article, IEEE Intelligent Systems (Special Issue on Semantic Web Services), July 2004, 3164 downloads, 1 citation.
  8. 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, 9962 downloads, 65 citations.
  9. Z. Ding and Y. Peng, "A Probabilistic Extension to Ontology Language OWL", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS-37)., January 2004, 6459 downloads, 154 citations.

2003

  1. A. Kunjithapatham, M. Sheshagiri, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and Y. Peng, "Personal Agents on the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Proc. Second Int. Semantic Web Conf., October 2003, 1475 downloads.
  2. B. Grosof, M. Gandhe, and T. Finin, "SweetJess: Inferencing in Situated Courteous RuleML via Translation to and from Jess Rules", TechReport, May 2003, 2414 downloads.

2002

  1. S. Kumar, A. Kunjithapatham, M. Sheshagiri, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and Y. Peng, "Sidekick: A Personal agent for the semantic web", TechReport, Technical Report, December 2002, 374 downloads.
  2. S. Kumar, A. Kunjithapatham, M. Sheshagiri, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, and R. S. Cost, "A Personal Agent Application for the Semantic Web", InProceedings, AAAI 2002 Fall Symposium Series, November 2002, 3823 downloads, 14 citations.
  3. L. Kagal, "Rei : A Policy Language for the Me-Centric Project", TechReport, HP Labs, September 2002, 4454 downloads.
  4. F. Perich and C. Nicholas, "SHOMAR: An Open Architecture for Distributed Intrusion Detection Services", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, September 2002, 6040 downloads.
  5. M. A. Grasso, "Structured speech input for clinical data collection", Proceedings, Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, June 2002, 6 citations.
  6. M. Gandhe, T. Finin, and B. Grosof, "SweetJess: Translating DamlRuleML to Jess", InProceedings, International Workshop on Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules on the Semantic Web in conjunction with ISWC2002, June 2002, 2961 downloads, 51 citations.
  7. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "On Security in Open Multi-Agent Systems", TechReport, UMBC, March 2002, 468 downloads.

1999

  1. S. Quirolgico, K. Canfield, T. Finin, and J. A. Smith, "Communicating neural network knowledge between agents in a simulated aerial reconnaissance system", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications,, October 1999, 3186 downloads, 5 citations.
  2. T. Finin, "Pfc Users Manual", TechReport, August 1999, 428 downloads.

1990

  1. S. Schocken and T. Finin, "Meta-interpreters for rule-based inference under uncertainty", Article, Decision Support Systems, April 1990, 1364 downloads.

1987

  1. S. Schocken and T. Finin, "Prolog Meta-Interpreters for Rule-Based Inference Under Uncertainty", TechReport, New York University, September 1987, 789 downloads.
  2. R. Kass and T. Finin, "Rules for the Implicit Acquisition of Knowledge About the User", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), July 1987, 1336 downloads.

1984

  1. T. Finin and B. Webber, "BUP, a Bottom Up Parser", TechReport, University of Pennsylvania, November 1984, 360 downloads.

1980

  1. T. Finin, "The Semantic Interpretation of Compound Nominals", PhdThesis, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, February 1980, 2212 downloads, 85 citations.

1978

  1. T. Finin, "Casting the Rendezvous Analyzer Rules into Augmented Transition Network Form", TechReport, IBM Research Report RJ 2146, November 1978.

1959

  1. A. L. Samuel, "Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers", Article, IBM Journal of Research and Development, 827 downloads.

Presentation

  1. A Schema-Based Approach Combined with Inter-Ontology Reasoning to Construct Consensus Ontologies
  2. BayesOWL: A Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty in Semantic Web
  3. BayesOWL: A Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty in Semantic Web (pdf)
  4. Constraining Information Flow in Social Networks with Privacy Policies
  5. Rei and RUles
  6. Semantically Rich, Policy Based Framework to Automate Lifecycle of Cloud Based Services
  7. SweetRules Presentation

Ontology

  1. Rei Ontology Specifications, Ver 2.0

Masters Thesis

  1. Text and Ontology Driven Clinical Decision Support System

Dataset

  1. UMBC webbase corpus

Old News

  1. Zhongli Ding defends dissertation
    December 5, 2005
  2. SweetRules v2.1 released
    April 25, 2005

Old Events

  1. PhD defense: Lushan Han, Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data
    May 23, 2014
  2. Phd proposal: A Semantic Resolution Framework for Manufacturing Capability Data Integration
    May 14, 2013
  3. Text and Ontology Driven Clinical Decision Support System
    April 23, 2013
  4. A Schema-Based Approach Combined with Inter-Ontology Reasoning to Construct Consensus Ontologies
    November 9, 2009
  5. A Hybrid Approach to Unsupervised Relation Discovery via Linguistic Analysis, Entropy-based Label Ranking and Semantic Typing
    October 27, 2009
  6. Constraining Information Flow in Social Networks with Privacy Policies
    August 10, 2009
  7. Privacy in geo-social context aware systems
    November 25, 2008
  8. Aware Home
    April 20, 2007
  9. BayesOWL: A Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty in Semantic Web
    December 5, 2005
  10. A Holistic Approach to Secure Sensor Networks
    July 28, 2005