Timothy Wilking Finin


Curriculum Vitae 2011

Contact

Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore MD 21250
voice:+1-410-455-3522, fax:+1-410-455-3969, mobile:+1-410-499-3522
finin@umbc.edu tfinin@gmail.com skype:timfinin http://umbc.edu/~finin

Research Interests

Artificial intelligence, Semantic Web, social media, mobile and pervasive computing, natural language processing, multiagent systems, knowledge and database systems

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, 1980. dissertation: The Semantic Interpretation of Compound Nominals (advisor: D. L. Waltz)

M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, 1977. thesis: An Interpreter and Compiler for Augmented Transition Networks (advisor: D. L. Waltz)

S.B. in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971. thesis: Three Problems in Analyzing Scenes (advisor: P. H. Winston)

Employment

1991- Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

1999-2002 Director, Institute for Global Electronic Commerce
1991-95 Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science
2007- Principal Staff Scientist, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at The Johns Hopkins University
2007-2008 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (sabbatical leave)

1987-91 Technical Director, Knowledge Based Information Processing, Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology, Paoli PA

1987-91 Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

1980-87 Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

1974-80 Research Assistant, Research Associate, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1977 Visiting Research Staff, Computer Science Department, IBM. Research Laboratory, San Jose

1971-74 Research Staff, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT

1970 Research Assistant, The Cambridge Project, MIT Publications

Publications and collections

Copies available from http://bit.ly/twfpapers, citation data from http://bit.ly/twfcite.

2012

  1. Lushan Han, Tim Finin, Paul McNamee, Anupam Joshi, and Yelena Yesha, Improving Word Similarity by Augmenting PMI with Estimates of Word Polysemy, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, in press, 2012. link

  2. Wenjia Li, Palanivel Kodeswaran, Pramod Jagtap, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, Managing and Securing Critical Infrastructure - A Semantic Policy and Trust driven approach, in Sajal Das, Krishna Kant and Nan Zhang (eds.), Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructures, Foundations and Challenges, pp. 551-572, Morgan Kauffman, January 2012. link

    2011

  3. Lushan Han, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, GoRelations: An Intuitive Query System for DBpedia, Proc. Joint Int. Semantic Technology Conf., SPringer LNCS, December 2011. link

  4. Varish Mulwad, Tim Finin, and Anupam Joshi, Automatically Generating Government Linked Data from Tables, Working notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges, November, 2011. link

  5. Akshaya Iyengar, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Content-based prediction of temporal boundaries for events in Twitter, Proc. 3rd IEEE Int. Conf. on Social Computing, October 2011. link

  6. Madan Oberoi, Pramod Jagtap, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Lalana Kagal, Information Integration and Analysis: A Semantic Approach to Privacy, Proc. Third IEEE Int. Conf. on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, October 2011. link

  7. Wenjia Li, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, SAT: an SVM-based Automated Trust Management System for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, Proc. 2011 Military Communications Conf., Baltimore, November 2011. link

  8. Pramod Jagtap, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Laura Zavala, Preserving Privacy in Context-Aware Systems, Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Conf. on Semantic Computing, October 2011. link

  9. Varish Mulwad, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Generating Linked Data by Inferring the Semantics of Tables, Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on Searching and Integrating New Web Data Sources, Co-located with VLDB 2011, Seattle, September 2011. link

  10. Varish Mulwad, Wenjia Li, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, and Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, Extracting Information about Security Vulnerabilities from Web Text, Proc. Web Intelligence for Information Security Workshop, August 2011, Lyon, France, IEEE Computer Society Press. link

  11. Laura Zavala, Radhika Dharurkar, Pramod Jagtap, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Mobile, Collaborative, Context-Aware Systems, Proc. AAAI Workshop on Activity Context Representation: Techniques and Languages, AAAI Press, Aug. 2011. link

  12. Zareen Syed and Tim finin, Creating and Exploiting a Hybrid Knowledge Base for Linked Data, in Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Joaquim Filipe, Ana Fred and Bernadette Sharp (Eds.), Revised Selected Papers Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science, v129, Springer, April 2011. link

  13. Lina Zhou, Li Ding and Tim Finin, How is the Semantic Web evolving? A dynamic social network perspective, Computers in Human Behavior, v27 n4, pp. 1294-1302, Elsevier, 2011. link

  14. Wenjia Li, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, ATM: Automated Trust Management for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Using Support Vector Machine, poster paper, Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on Mobile Data Management, Lulea, Sweden, June 2011. link

  15. Palanivel Kodeswaran, Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin: Enforcing security in semantics driven policy based networks. Computer Standards and Interfaces 33(1): 2-12 (2011). link

  16. Archit Gupta, Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Integrating Linked Open Data with Unstructured Text for Intelligence Gathering Tasks, Proc. 8th Int. Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, held in conjunction with WWW 2011, Hyderabad, India, March 2011. link

  17. Wenjia Li, Pramod Jagtap, Laura Zavala, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, CARE-CPS: Context-Aware tRust Evaluation for Wireless Networks in Cyber-Physical System Using Policies, (poster paper), Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, Pisa, June 2011. link

    2010

  18. Varish Mulwad, Tim Finin, Zareen Syed, and Anupam Joshi, Using linked data to interpret tables, Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on Consuming Linked Data, held in conjunction with the 9th Int. Semantic Web Conf., Shanghai, Nov. 2010. link

  19. Jennifer Sleeman and Tim Finin, Computing FOAF Co-reference Relations with Rules and Machine Learning, Proc. 3rd Int. Workshop on Social Data on the Web, co-located with the 9th Int. Semantic Web Conf., Shanghai, Nov. 2010. link

  20. Krishnamurthy Koduvayur Viswanathan and Tim Finin, Text Based Similarity Metrics and Delta for Semantic Web Graphs, (poster paper), Proc. Poster and Demonstration Session at the 9th Int. Semantic Web Conf., CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Shanghai, Nov. 2010. link

  21. Varish Mulwad, Tim Finin, Zareen Syed and Anupam Joshi, T2LD: Interpreting and Representing Tables as Linked Data (poster paper), Proc. Poster and Demonstration Session at the 9th Int. Semantic Web Conf., CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Shanghai, Nov. 2010. link

  22. Jennifer Sleeman and Tim Finin, Learning Co-reference Relations for FOAF Instances, (poster paper), Proc. Poster and Demonstration Session at the 9th Int. Semantic Web Conf., CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Shanghai, Nov. 2010. link

  23. Clare T. Grasso, Tim Finin, Michael A.Grasso, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha, A Framework for the Use of Autonomous Intelligent Agents in Disaster Management and Response, Proc. AMIA Annual Symp., Nov., 2010.

  24. Palanivel Kodeswaran, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Filip Perich, A Declarative Approach for Secure and Robust Routing, Proc. 3rd ACM Workshop on Assurable and Usable Security Configuration, Oct., 2010. link

  25. Palanivel Kodeswaran, Filip Perich, Wenjia Li, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, Enforcing Secure and Robust Routing with Declarative Policies, The 2010 Military Communications Conf., San Jose, Oct. 31, 2010. link

  26. Mark Dredze, Paul McNamee, Delip Rao, Adam Gerber and Tim Finin, Entity Disambiguation for Knowledge Base Population, Proc. 23rd Int. Conf. on Computational Linguistics, Bejing, Aug. 2010. link

  27. Zareen Syed and Tim Finin, Approaches for Automatically Enriching Wikipedia, Proc. AAAI-2010 Workshop on Collaboratively-built Knowledge Sources and Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, July 2010. link

  28. Zareen Syed and Tim Finin, Unsupervised Techniques for Discovering Ontology Elements from Wikipedia Article Links, Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on Formalisms and Methodology for Learning by Reading (FAM-LbR), held in conjunction with NAACL 2010, Los Angeles, 6 June 2010. link

  29. Tim Finin, Will Murnane, Anand Karandikar, Nick Keller, Justin Martineau and Mark Dredze, Annotating named entities in Twitter data with crowdsourcing, Proc. Creating Speech and Text Language Data With Amazon's Mechanical Turk Workshop, held in conjunction with NAACL 2010, Los Angeles, June 2010. link

  30. Wenjia Li, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, Coping with Node Misbehaviors in Ad Hoc Networks: A Multi-Dimensional Trust Management Approach, Proc. 11th Int. Conf. on Mobile Data Management, pp. 85-94, IEEE Computer Society, May 2010. link

  31. Palanivel Kodeswaran, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Filip Perich, Correcting Routing Failures using Declarative Policies and Argumentation, Poster Session, 7th USENIX Symp. on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, San Jose, April 2010. link

  32. Zareen Syed, Tim Finin, Varish Mulwad, and Anupam Joshi, Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data for Interpreting Tables, Proc. 2nd Web Science Conf., April 2010. link

  33. Li Ding, Joshua Shinavier, Tim Finin, and Deborah L. McGuinness, "owl:sameAs and Linked Data: An Empirical Study ", Proc. 2nd Web Science Conf., April 2010. link

  34. Jennifer Sleeman and Tim Finin, A Machine Learning Approach to Linking FOAF Instances, Proc. AAAI Spring Symp. on Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence, 22-24 March 2010, Stanford CA, AAAI Press. link

  35. Joel Sachs and Tim Finin. What Does it Mean for a URI to Resolve?, Proc. AAAI Spring Symp. on Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence, Palo Alto, 22-24 March, 2010, AAAI Press.

  36. Tim Finin and Zareen Syed, Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Valentia ES, 22-24 Jan. 2010. link

    2009

  37. Paul McNamee, Mark Dredze, Adam Gerber, Nikesh Garera, Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Christine Piatko, Delip Rao, David Yarowsky, Markus Dreyer, HLTCOE Approaches to Knowledge Base Population at TAC 2009, Proc. 2009 Text Analysis Conf., National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, Nov. 2009. link

  38. Karuna Pande Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Integrated Lifecycle of IT Services in a Cloud Environment, Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on the Virtual Computing Initiative (ICVCI 2009), Research Triangle Park, NC, Oct. 2009. link

  39. Lushan Han, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi and Yelena Yesha, Data Integration for E-Science Using Correlated Concepts, (abstract), Microsoft eScience Workshop, Oct. 2009, Pittsburgh.

  40. Joel Sachs, Tejas Lagvankar, and Tim Finin, Social and Semantic Computing to Support Citizen Science, (abstract), Microsoft eScience Workshop, Oct. 2009, Pittsburgh.

  41. Lushan Han, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Finding Semantic Web Ontology Terms from Words, poster paper, Proc. Eighth Int. Semantic Web Conf., Washington DC, Springer Verlag, Oct. 2009. link

  42. Deepak Chinavle, Pranam Kolari, Tim Oates and Tim Finin, Ensembles in Adversarial Classification for Spam, in Proc. 18th ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 2015-2018, Nov. 02, 2009. link

  43. Justin Martineau, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, and Shamit Patel, Improving Binary Classification on Text Problems using Differential Word Features, Proc. 18th ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 2019-2024, ACM Press, Nov. 02, 2009. link

  44. Wenjia Li, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, Policy-based Malicious Peer Detection in Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. Int. Conf. on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, pp. 76-82, Aug. 29, 2009, Vancouver CA. link

  45. Michael A. Grasso Tim Finin, Xianshu Zhu, Anupam Joshi and Yelena Yesha, Video Summarization of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomies, (abstract), Proc. AMIA 2009 Annual Symp., Nov. 209. link

  46. Clayton Fink, Christine Piatko, James Mayfield, Danielle Chou, Tim Finin and Justin Martineau, The Geolocation of Web Logs from Textual Clues, CSE, vol. 4, pp. 1088-1092, 2009 Int. Conf. on Computational Science and Engineering, IEEE CS Press, Aug. 2009. link

  47. Eytan Adar, Matthew Hurst, Tim Finin, Natalie S. Glance, Nicolas Nicolov, Belle L. Tseng (Eds.), Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009, San Jose, California, May 17-20, 2009, The AAAI Press 2009.

  48. Justin Martineau and Tim Finin, Delta TFIDF: An Improved Feature Space for Sentiment Analysis, (poster paper), Proc. 3rd AAAI Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, AAAI Press, May 2009, San Jose. link

  49. Tim Finin, Zareen Syed, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee and Christine Piatko, Using Wikitology for cross-document entity coreference resolution, AAAI 2009 Spring Symp. on Learning by Reading and Learning to Read, March 2009. link

  50. James Mayfield, David Alexander, Bonnie Dorr, Jason Eisner, Tamer Elsayed, Tim Finin, Clay Fink, Marjorie Freedman, Nikesh Garera, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Saif Mohammad, Douglas Oard, Christine Piatko, Asad Sayeed, Zareen Syed, Ralph Weischedel, Cross-Document Coreference Resolution: A Key Technology for Learning by Reading, AAAI 2009 Spring Symp. on Learning by Reading and Learning to Read, March 2009. link

  51. Clay Fink, Christine Piatko, James Mayfield, Tim Finin, and Justin Martineau, Geolocating Blogs From Their Textual Content, AAAI Spring Symp. on Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0, March 2009. link

    2008

  52. James Mayfield, Bonnie Dorr, Tim Finin, Douglas Oard and Christine Piatko, Knowledge Base Evaluation for Semantic Knowledge Discovery, NSF Symp. Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use, Nov. 2008. link

  53. Sheetal Gupta, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, A Framework for Secure Knowledge Management in Pervasive Computing, Proc. Workshop on Secure Knowledge Management (SKM 2008), 3-4 Nov. 2008, Richardson, TX. link

  54. Lushan Han, Tim Finin, Cynthia Parr, Joel Sachs, and Anupam Joshi, RDF123: from Spreadsheets to RDF, 7th Int. Semantic Web Conf., 26-31 Oct. 2008, Karlsruhe, DE. link

  55. Onkar Walavalkar, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, and Yelena Yesha, Streaming Knowledge Bases, Proc. 4th Int. Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web knowledge Base Systems, Karlsruhe, 26 Oct. 2008. link

  56. Zareen Syed, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Wikitology: Wikipedia as an ontology, Proc. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conf., Oct. 2008. link

  57. Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, Detecting Commmunities via Simultaneous Clustering of Graphs and Folksonomies, 10th Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis, held in conjunction with The 14th ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2008), 24-27 Aug. 2008, Las Vegas NV. link

  58. Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Lalana Kagal, Jim Parker and Anand Patwardhan, Security Policies and Trust in Ubiquitous Computing, Philosophical Transactions A, The Royal Society of London, Oct. 2008. link

  59. Pranam Kolari and Tim Finin, Spings und Splog, (in German), Linux Technical Review, n. 07, Linux Magazin, Munchen, Aug. 2008.

  60. Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Anubav Kale and Amit Krandikar, The Information ecology of social media and online communities, AI Magazine, v29, n3,Fall 2008. link

  61. Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Kelly Lyons, and Yelena Yesha, Expert Search using Internal Corporate Blogs, Procedings of the SIGIR Workshop on Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval, July 2008. link

  62. Palanivel Andiappan Kodeswaran, Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, Enforcing security in semantics driven policy based networks, Proc. 24th Int. Conf. on Data Engineering Workshops, Secure Semantic Web, April 2008. link

  63. T. Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, J. Niu, R. Sandhu, W. Winsborough, and B. Thuraisingham, ROWLBAC - Representing Role Based Access Control in OWL, Proc. 13th ACM symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, ACM Press New York, June 2008.

  64. Clay Fink, Tim Finin, Jim Mayfield and Christine Piatko, OWL as a Target for Information Extraction Systems, (Statement of Interest), 4th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop, April 2008.

  65. Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Lalana Kagal, Jianwei Niu, Ravi Sandhu, William H Winsborough, and Bhavani Thuraisingham, Role Based Access Control and OWL, Proc. 4th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop, April 2008. link

  66. Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, Approximating the Community Structure of the Long Tail, (poster paper), Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, AAAI Press, March 2008. link

  67. Amit Karandikar, Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha, and Yaacov Yesha, 2nd Space: A Generative Model For The Blogosphere, (poster paper), Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, AAAI Press, March 2008. link

  68. Zareen Syed, Tim Finin, and Anupam Joshi, Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, AAAI Press, March 2008. link

  69. Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Li Ding, Amit P. Sheth, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Anupam Joshi, Timothy W. Finin: Scalable semantic analytics on social networks for addressing the problem of conflict of interest detection, ACM Transactions on the Web, V. 2, N. 1, Feb. 2008. link

    2007

  70. Tim Finin, Lalana Kagal and Daniel Olmedilla (Eds.), Proc. Workshop on privacy enforcement and accountability with semantics, held in conjunction with the 6th Int. Semantic Web Conf. and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conf., Busan, Korea, Nov. 2007.

  71. Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Akshay Java, Anubhav Kale, and Pranam Kolari, Web 2.0 Mining: Analyzing Social Media, NSF Symp. on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for Innovation, Oct. 2007.

  72. Akshay Java, Sergei Nirneburg, Marjorie McShane, Timothy Finin, Jesse English and Anupam Joshi, Using a Natural Language Understanding System to Generate Semantic Web Content, Int. Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, 3(4), 2007. link

  73. P. Ordez, P. Kodeswaran, V. Korolev,W. Li, O.Walavalkar, B. Elgamil, A. Joshi, T. Finin and Y. Yesha, A Ubiquitous Context-Aware Environment for Surgical Training, The 1st Int. Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Context Aware Systems and Applications, Philadelphia, Aug. 2007.

  74. Akshay Java, Xiaodan Song, Tim Finin, and Belle Tseng, Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities, Joint 9th WEBKDD and 1st SNA-KDD Workshop, Aug. 2007. link

  75. Sheetal Agarwal, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha and Tim Ganous, A Pervasive Computing System for the Operating Room of the Future, Mobile Networks and Applications, V. 12, Numbers 2-3, pp. 215-228, Springer, June 2007.

  76. Tim Finin, Joel Sachs, and Cynthia Parr, Finding Data, Knowledge, and Answers on the Semantic Web, Proc. 20th Int. FLAIRS Conf., AAAI Press, May 2007. link

  77. Lalana Kagal and Tim Finin, Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pp 187-206, v. 14, n. 2, April 2007. link

  78. Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Oates, Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions, Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), Boulder, Colorado, 25 March 2007. link

  79. Anubhav Kale, Amit Karandikar, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity, Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), Boulder, Colorado, 25 March 2007. link

  80. Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha, Yaacov Yesha, Kelly Lyons, Stephen Perelgut, and Jen Hawkins, On the Structure, Properties and Utility of Internal Corporate Blogs, Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), Boulder, Colorado, 25 March 2007. link

  81. Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Akshay Java, and Anupam Joshi Towards Spam Detection at Ping Servers, short demonstration paper, Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), Boulder, Colorado, 25 March 2007. link

  82. Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Anupam Joshi, and Justin Martineau, BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff, Proc. Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, 20th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Jan. 2007. link

  83. Pavan Reddivari, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Policy-Based Access Control for an RDF Store, Proc. IJCAI-07 Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, Jan., 2007. link

    2006

  84. Dipanjan Chakraborty, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Y
  85. esha, and Tim Finin, Toward distributed service discovery in pervasive computing environments, IEEE Journal of Transactions on Mobile Computing, v5, n2, pp. 97-112, IEEE Computer Society, 2006. link

  86. Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Anupam Joshi, and Justin Martineau, Blog Track Open Task: Spam Blog Classification, Proc. Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conf. (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, Maryland, Nov. 2006. link

  87. Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Justin Martineau, Tim Finin, James Mayfield, and Anupam Joshi, The BlogVox Opinion Retrieval System Proc. Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conf. (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, Maryland, Nov. 2006. link

  88. Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha, Kelly Lyons, Stephen Perelgut, and Jen Hawkins, Monitoring Conversations on the Blogosphere: An Enterprise Perspective, CASCON 2006 Exhibit Program, Octobber 16, 2006. link

  89. Joel Sachs, Cynthia Parr, Adrey Parafiynyk, Rong Pan, Lushan Han, Li Ding, and Tim Finin, Using the Semantic Web to Support Ecoinformatics, AAAI 2006 Fall Symp. on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, 13-15 Oct. 2006, Hyatt Crystal City, Arlington, VA. link

  90. Li Ding and Tim Finin, Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web, Proc. 5th Int. Semantic Web Conf., Athens GA, 5-9 Nov. 2006. link

  91. Anand Patwardhan, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, and Yelena Yesha, A Data Intensive Reputation Management Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. 2nd Int. Workshop on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications, held in conjunction with The 3rd Annual Int. Conf. on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services, San Jose, 21 July 2006. link

  92. Lalana Kagal Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi and Sol Greenspan, Security and Privacy in Open and Dynamic Environments, IEEE Computer, volume 39, n. 5, June 2006. link

  93. Tim Finin and Li Ding, Search Engines for Semantic Web Knowledge, Proc. XTech 2006: Building Web 2.0, 16-19 May 2006. link

  94. Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Tim Oates, and Anupam Joshi, Detecting Spam Blogs: A Machine Learning Approach, Proc. 21st National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), July 2006. link

  95. Anand Patwardhan, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Querying in packs: Trustworthy Data Management in Ad Hoc Networks, Int. Journal of Wireless Information Networks, 21 July 2006. link

  96. Pranam Kolari and Tim Finin, A Framework for Multi-Relational Analytics on the Blogosphere, (abstract), Proc. 21st National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), July 2006.

  97. Akshay Java, Tim Finin, and Sergei Nirenburg, SemNews: A Semantic News Framework, Proc. 21st National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), July 2006.

  98. Cynthia Parr, Andriy Parafiynyk, Joel Sachs, Rong Pan, Lushan Han, Li Ding, Tim Finin, and Taowei Wang, Using the Semantic Web to Integrate Ecoinformatics Resources, poster paper, Proc. Twenty-1st National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, 18 July 2006, Boston. link

  99. Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha, Kelly Lyons, Jen Hawkins and Stephen Perelgut, Policy Management of Enterprise Systems: A Requirements Study, short paper, 2006 IEEE Workshop on Policy for Distributed Systems and Networks, 5-7 June 2006, London, Ontario CN. link

  100. Jim Parker, Anand Patwardhan, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, Trust in Pervasive Computing, in The Handbook of Mobile Middleware, P. Bellavista and A. Corradi (eds.), pp. 473-496, CRC Press, (ISBN 0-849-33833-6), May 2006. link

  101. Cynthia Parr, Andriy Parafiynyk, Joel Sachs, Li Ding, Sandor Dornbush, Tim Finin, Taowei Wang, and Allan Hollander, Integrating Ecoinformatics Resources on the Semantic Web, poster paper, 15th Int. World Wide Web Conf., Edinburgh, May 2006. link

  102. Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java and Tim Finin, "Characterizing the Splogosphere", 3rd Annual Workshop on Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics, held in conjunction with WWW2006, Edinboro, May 2006. link

  103. Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Amit Sheth, Budak Arpinar, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, "Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection", WWW 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2006. link

  104. Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, SVMs for the Blogosphere: Blog Identification and Spam Detection, submitted, AAAI Spring Symp. on Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs, Stanford, March 2006. link

  105. Akshay Java, Tim Finin and Sergei Nirenburg, Text understanding agents and the Semantic Web, 39th Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Sciences, Kauai HI, 4-6 Jan., 2006. link

    2000-05

  106. Mike Huhns et. al, "Research Directions for Service-Oriented Multiagent Systems," IEEE Internet Computing, v9, n6, pp. 65-70, Nov./Dec. 2005. link

  107. Li Ding, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Rong Pan and Pavan Reddivari, Search on the Semantic Web, IEEE Computer, Oct. 2005. link

  108. Anand Patwardhan, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Active Collaborations for Trustworthy Data Management in Ad Hoc Networks, 2nd IEEE Int. Conf. on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems, 7-10 Nov. 2005, Washington DC. link

  109. Mark Burstein, Christoph Bussler, Tim Finin, Michael Huhns, Massimo Paolucci, Amit Sheth, Stuart Williams and Michal Zaremba, A Semantic Web Services Architecture, IEEE Internet Computing, pp 52-61, v9, n5, Sept./Oct. 2005. link

  110. Li Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng and Pranam Kolari, Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web, Proc. 4th Int. Semantic Web Conf., Galway IE, Nov. 2005. link

  111. Li Ding, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva and Deborah McGuinness, Tracking RDF Graph Provenance using RDF Molecules, poster paper, Proc. 4th Int. Semantic Web Conf., Galway IE, Nov. 2005. link

  112. Akshay Java, Tim Finin and Sergei Nirenburg, Integrating Language Understanding Agents Into the Semantic Web, 1st Int. Symp. on Agents and the Semantic Web, 2005 AAAI Fall Symp. Series, Arlington VA, 4-6 Nov., 2005. link

  113. Harry Chen, Filip Perich, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing, in Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences, Valentina Tamma, Stephen Cranefield, Tim Finin and Steven Willmott (Eds), Springer Verlag, June 2005. link

  114. Valentina Tamma, Stephen Cranefield, Tim Finin and Steven Willmott (Eds), Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences, Springer Verlag, June 2005, ISBN: 3-7643-7237-0. link

  115. Tim Finin, Li Ding, Rong Pan, Anupam Joshi, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java and Yun Peng, "Swoogle: Searching for knowledge on the Semantic Web", Intelligent Systems Demonstration, Proc. 20th National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, July 2005. link

  116. Tim Finin, Li Ding, Lina Zhou and Anupam Joshi, Social Networking on the Semantic Web, Learning Organization Journal, v12, n5, pp 418-435, 2005. link

  117. Ryusuke Masuoka, Mohinder Chorpa, Zhexuan Song, Yannis Labrou, Lalana Kagal and Tim Finin, Policy-based Access Control for Task Computing Using Rei, Proc. Policy Management for the Web Workshop, 14th Int. World Wide Web Conf., pp 37-43, 10 May 2005, Chiba Japan. link

  118. Pavan Reddivari, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Policy based Access Control for a RDF Store, Proc. Policy Management for the Web workshop (position paper), 14th Int. World Wide Web Conf., pp 78-81, 10 May 2005, Chiba, Japan. link

  119. Pranam Kolari, Li Ding, Lalana Kagal, Shashidhara Ganjugunte, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Enhancing Web Privacy Protection through Declarative Policies, 2005 IEEE Workshop on Policy for Distributed Systems and Networks, 6-8 June 2005, Stockholm. link

  120. Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha and Tim Finin, "Collaborative Joins in a Pervasive Computing Environment", VLDB Journal, v14 n2, pp 182-196, April 2005. link

  121. Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng and Yelena Yesha, On Homeland Security and the Semantic Web: A Provenance and Trust Aware Inference Framework, poster paper, AAAI Spring Symp. on AI Technologies for Homeland Security, 21-25 March 2005. link

  122. Lalana Kagal and Tim Finin, Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations, in Developments in Agent Communication, Frank Dignum, Rogier van Eijk, Marc-Philippe Huget (Eds), (Post-proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Agent Communication, Springer, LNCS, Jan., 2005.

  123. Dipanjan Chakraborty, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Service Composition for Mobile Environments, Journal on Mobile Networking and Applications, Special Issue on Mobile Services, v10, n4, pp 435-451, Jan. 2005. link

  124. Li Ding, Lina Zhou, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, How the Semantic Web is Being Used:An Analysis of FOAF, Proc. 38th Int. Conf. on System Sciences, Digital Documents Track (The Semantic Web: The Goal of Web Intelligence), Hawaii, Jan. 2005. link

  125. Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Anupam Joshi, R. Scott Cost and Clay Fink, Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web, Proc. 38th Int. Conf. on System Sciences, Digital Documents Track (The Semantic Web: The Goal of Web Intelligence), Hawaii, Jan. 2005. link

  126. Youyong Zou, Tim Finin Harry Chen, F-OWL: an Inference Engine for Semantic Web, in Michael G. Hinchey, James L. Rash, Walter F. Truszkowski and Christopher A. Rouff (editors), Formal Approaches to Agent Based Systems, (Proc. 3rd NASA/IEEE Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent Based Systems, FAABS III, 16-18 April 2004, Greenbelt MD), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v3228, Dec. 2004. link

  127. Li Ding, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Analyzing Social Networks on the Semantic Web, IEEE Intelligent Systems (Trends and Controversies), v9, n1, Jan/Feb 2005. link/

  128. Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Filip Perich, Dipanjan Chakraborty and Lalana Kagal, Intelligent Agents Meet the Semantic Web in Smart Spaces, IEEE Internet Computing, v8, n6, Nov./Dec., 2004. link

  129. Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Declarative Policies for Describing Web Service Capabilities and Constraints, W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services, Oct., 2004. link

  130. Olga Streltchenko, Yelena Yesha and Tim Finin, Multi-agent simulation of financial markets, in Steven Orla Kimbrough and D.J. Wu (eds.), Formal Modeling in Electronic Commerce: Representation, Inference and Strategic Interaction, Springer, 2004. link

  131. Li Ding, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Rong Pan, R. Scott Cost, Joel Sachs, Vishal Doshi, Pavan Reddivari and Yun Peng, Swoogle: A Search and Metadata Engine for the Semantic Web, Proc 13th ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, Washington DC, Nov. 2004. link

  132. Tim Finin and Joel Sachs, Will the Semantic Web Change Science?, Science Next Wave, Sept. 2004. link

  133. Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng and Timothy Finin, Quantitative Agent Service Matching, 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence, Sept. 2004, Beijing. link

  134. Lalana Kagal, Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Grit Denker, Tim Finin and Katia Sycara, Authorization and Privacy for Semantic Web Services, IEEE Intelligent Systems (Special issue on Semantic Web Services, pp. 50-56, v19, n4 (July/Aug.), 2004. link

  135. Deepali Khushraj, Ora Lassila and Tim Finin, sTuples: Semantic Tuple Spaces, Proc. Int. Conf. on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, Boston, Aug. 2004. link

  136. Filip Perich, Jeffrey L Undercoffer, Lalana Kagal, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, In Reputation We Believe: Query, Processing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Proc. Int. Conf. on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, Boston, Aug. 2004. link

  137. Harry Chen, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, SOUPA: Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications, Processing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Proc. Int. Conf. on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, Boston, Aug. 2004.

  138. Lalana Kagal and Tim Finin, A Generic Model for Conversation Specifications and Policies based on Permissions and Obligations, Proc. AAMAS 2004 Workshop on Agent Communication, July 2004. link

  139. James Just, Mark R. Cornwell, Lalana Kagal and Tim Finin, A Policy Based Collaboration Infrastructure for P2P Networking, Twelfth Int. Conf. on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis, July 2004, Monterey CA.

  140. Harry Chen, Filip Perich, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Tim Finin and Anupam Josh, Intelligent Agents Meet Semantic Web in a Smart Meeting Room, Proc. 3rd Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, New York, July 2004. link

  141. William Krueger, Jonathan Nilsson, Tim Oates and Tim Finin, Automatically Generated DAML Markup for Semistructured Documents, in Agent Mediated Knowledge Management, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Luder van Elst, Virginia Dignum and Andreas Abecker (Eds.), 2004. (Revised version of 2003 workshop paper).

  142. Lalana Kagal, James Parker, Harry Chen, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, Security, Trust and Privacy in Mobile Computing Environments, in Handbook of Mobile Computing, Imad Mahgoub and Mohammad Ilyas (eds.), CRC Press, pp. 961-986, Dec. 2004.

  143. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Semantic Web in the Context Broker Architecture, IEEE Conf. on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Orlando, March, 2004. link

  144. Olga Ratsimor, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin and Yelena Yesha, Service Discovery in Agent-based Pervasive Computing Environments, Journal on Mobile Networking and Applications (MONET). Special issue on Mobile and Pervasive Commerce, v9, pp 679-692, 2004. link

  145. Lalana Kagal, Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Grit Denker, Tim Finin and Katia Sycara, Authorization and Privacy for Semantic Web Services, AAAI 2004 Spring Symp. on Semantic Web Services, Stanford, March 2004. link

  146. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, A Context Broker for Building Smart Meeting Rooms, AAAI 2004 Spring Symp. on Knowledge Representation and Ontology for Autonomous Systems, Stanford, March 2004. link

  147. Jeffery Undercoffer, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and John Pinkston. "A Target Centric Ontology for Intrusion Detection: Using DAML+OIL to Classify Intrusive Behaviors", Knowledge Engineering Review - Special Issue on Ontologies for Distributed Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

  148. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, An ontology for context aware pervasive computing environments, Knowledge Engineering Review - Special Issue on Ontologies for Distributed Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2004. link

  149. Deepali Khushraj, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Semantic Tuple Spaces: A Coordination Infrastructure in Mobile Environments, poster paper, Proc. 2nd Int. Semantic Web Conf., Oct. 2003. link

  150. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, An Intelligent Broker for Context-Aware Systems, poster paper, the 5th Annual Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing, Oct 2003, Seattle. link

  151. Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Mithun Sheshagiri, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi and Yun Peng, Personal Agents on the Semantic Web, poster paper, 2nd Int. Semantic Web Conf., Oct 2003.

  152. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Semantic Web in a Pervasive Context-Aware Architecture, Workshop on Artifical Intelligence in Mobile Systems, the 5th Annual Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing, 12-15 Oct 2003, Seattle. link

  153. James Mayfield and Tim Finin, Information retrieval on the Semantic Web: Integrating inference and retrieval, SIGIR Workshop on the Semantic Web, Toronto, Aug. 2003. link

  154. Grit Denker, Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Massimo Paoucci, Katia Sycara, Security for DAML Web Serviced: Annotation and Matchmaking, 2nd Int. Semantic Web Conf., Sanibel Island FL, Oct. 2003. link

  155. Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, A Policy Based Approach to Security for the Semantic Web, 2nd Int. Semantic Web Conf., Sanibel Island FL, Oct. 2003. link

  156. Li Ding, Lina Zhou, Tim Finin, Trust Based Knowledge Outsourcing for Semantic Web Agents, 2003 IEEE/WIC Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence (WI 2003), Oct. 2003, Beijing. link

  157. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Using OWL in a Pervasive Computing Broker, Workshop on Ontologies in Open Agent Systems, AAMAS 2003. link

  158. Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen and Rong Pan, Using Semantic Web technology in Multi-Agent Systems: a case study in the TAGA trading agent environment, Proc. 5th Int. Conf. On Electronic Commerce: Technologies, Pittsburg, Oct. 2003.

  159. Olga Ratsimor, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha, eVibe: A Framework for Hierarchical Marketing in Mobile Peer-To-Peer Environments, 5th Int. Conf. On Electronic Commerce: Technologies, Pittsburg, Oct. 2003.

  160. On Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin and Yelena Yesha, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, v16, n5, pp. 621-34, May 2004. link

  161. Mithun Sheshagiri, Marie desJardins, Tim Finin, A Planner for Composing Service Described in DAML-S, Workshop on Web Services and Agent-based Engineering, AAMAS, July 20003. link

  162. Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha and Timothy Finin, Neighborhood-Consistent Transaction Management for Pervasive Computing Environments, 14th Int. Conf. on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2003), Prague, Sept. 2003.

  163. B. Burg, J. Dale, T. Finin, H. Nakashima, L. Padgham, C. Sierra and S. Willmott, editors, Agentcities: Challenges in Open Agent Environments, Springer, 2003.

  164. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, An ontology for a context aware pervasive computing environment, IJCAI workshop on ontologies and distributed systems, Aug., 2003, Acapulco MX. link

  165. Jeffrey Undercoffer, John Pinkston, Anupam Joshi and Timothy Finin, A Target-Centric Ontology for Intrusion Detection, IJCAI Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems, Aug. 2003, Acapulco MX. link

  166. Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen and Rong Pan, TAGA: Trading Agent Competition in Agentcities, Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, held in conjunction with the Eighteenth Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, 11 Aug., 2003, Acuulco MX. link

  167. Li Ding, Tim Finin, Yongmei Shi, Youyong Zou, Zhongli Ding and Rong Pan, Strategies and heuristics used by the UMBCTAC agent in the 3rd Trading Agent Competition, Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, held in conjunction with the 18th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence,Acuulco MX, Aug. 2003.. link

  168. Amit Choudhri, Lalana Kagal, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin, Yelena Yesha, PatientService : Electronic Patient Record Redaction and Delivery in Pervasive Environments, Proc. 5th Int. Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry, Santa Monica, June 2003. link

  169. Mithun Sheshagiri, Marie desJardins, Tim Finin, A Planner for Composing Service Described in DAML-S, Workshop on Planning for Web Services, Int. Conf. on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Trento, July 2003. link

  170. Vipul Hingne, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Hillol Kargupta and Elias Houstis, Towards a Pervasive Grid, Next Generation Systems Program Workshop, Int. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symp., Nice, April 2003.

  171. Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, A Policy Language for Pervasive Systems, Proc. 4th IEEE Int. Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, Lake Como, 4-6 June, 2003. link

  172. Sethuram Kodeswaran, Olga Ratsimor, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Using Peer-to-Peer Data Routing for Infrastructure-based Wireless Networks, IEEE Int. Conf. on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Dallas-Fort Worth, March 2003. link

  173. William Krueger, Jonathan Nilsson, Tim Oates and Tim Finin, Automatically Generated DAML Markup for Semistructured Documents, AAAI Spring Symp. 2003 on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM), 24-26 March, 2003, Palo Alto, California. link

  174. Stephen Cranefield, Tim Finin, Valentina Tamma and Stephen Willmott, (eds.). Proc. Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems (OAS'03), 2nd Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Tilburg, The Netherlands, CEUR Publications, 2003. link

  175. Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Lalana Kagal, Olga Ratsimore, Sasikanth Avancha, Vlad Korolev, Harry Chen, Filip Perich, R. Scott Cost, Information Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices, Int. Journal of Cooperative Information Systems Vol. 11, Nos. 3 and 4 (2002), pp. 205-230. link

  176. Dipanjan Chakraborty, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, 4th IEEE Conf. on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN), IEEE Press, Stockholm, Sept. 2002. link

  177. Stephen Cranefield, Tim Finin and Steve Willmott (Eds.), Proc. Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, 1st Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, 16 July 2002. link

  178. Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Agents, Trust and Information Access on the Semantic Web, SIGMOD Record, v31, n4, Dec. 2002. link

  179. Tim Finin, Manolis Koubarakis, Yannis Labrou, Intelligent Information Agents in the Internet and the WWW Age, Preface. Int. Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 11(1): 1-2 (2002). link

  180. Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Me-Services: A Framework for Secure and Personalized Discovery, Composition and Management of Services in Pervasive Environments, in Web Services, E-Business and the Semantic Web, C. Bussler, R. Hull, S. McIlraith, M.E. Orlowska, B. Pernici, J. Yang (Eds.), LNCS 2512, p. 248 ff., Springer, ISBN:3540001980, Dec. 2002. (revised version of paper in Proc. CAiSE 2002 Int. Workshop, WES 2002, Toronto, Canada, May 27-28, 2002.) link

  181. Olga Ratsimor, Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Combining Infrastructure and Ad hoc Collaboration For Data Management in Mobile Wireless Networks, Workshop on "Ad hoc Communications and Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments" held in conjunction with the ACM 2002 Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002) New Orleans LA, 16-20 Nov 2002. link

  182. Subhash Kumar, Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Mithun Sheshagiri, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng and R. Scott Cost, A personal agent application for the semantic web, AAAI Fall Symp. on Personalized Agents, North Falmouth, Nov 15-17, 2002. link

  183. Urvi Shah, Tim Finin Anupam Joshi, R. Scott Cost and James Mayfield, Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web, 10th Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, Nov. 2002. link

  184. William Krueger, Jonathan Nilsson, Tim Oates and Tim Finin, Automatically Generated DAML Markup for Semistructured Documents, National Science Foundation Workshop on Next Generation Data Mining, Baltimore, Nov. 2002. link

  185. Lalana Kagal, Vlad Korolev, Sasikanth Avancha, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin and Yelean Yesha, Centaurus: An Infrastructure for Service Management in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, Wireless Networks, 8:6, Kluwer, 2002. link

  186. Dipanjan Chakraborty, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin, and Yelena Yesha, A Reactive Service Composition Architecture for Pervasive Computing Environments, Proc. Seventh Personal Wireless Communications Conf. (PWC), Oct., 2002. link

  187. Olga Ratsimor, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Sovrin Tolia, Deepali Kushraj, Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Gaurav Gupta, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin, Allia: Alliance-based Service Discovery for Ad-Hoc Environments, 2nd ACM Int. Workshop on Mobile Commerce, in conjunction with Mobicom 2002, Sep 28, 2002, Atlanta GA. link

  188. Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Developing Secure Agent Systems Using Delegation Based Trust Management, 2nd Int. Workshop on Security of Mobile Multiagent Systems (SEMAS-2002), Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 27-34, Bologna, 15-19 July 2002. link

  189. Lalana Kagal, Jeffrey Undercoffer, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, A Security Architecture Based on Trust Management for Pervasive Computing Systems', Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2002. link

  190. Lalana Kagal, Vladimir Korolev, Sasikanth Avancha, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin, 'An Approach to Dynamic Service Management in Pervasive Computing', Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2002. link

  191. Dipanjan Chakraborty, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Middleware for Mobile Information Access, 5th Int. Workshop Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems, Sept. 2-6, 2002 Aix-en-Provence, France. link

  192. Stephen Cranefield, Steven Willmott and Tim Finin, Introduction to the special issue on ontologies in agent systems, The Knowledge Engineering Review, v17, n1, pp. 1-5, March 2002.

  193. Sasikanth Avancha, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Enhanced Service Discovery in Bluetooth, IEEE Computer, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp 96-99, June 2002. link

  194. Sushama Prasad, Yun Peng and Tim Finin, Using Explicit Information To Map Between Two Ontologies, Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, 1st Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, 15-19 July 2002.

  195. Naveen Srinivasan and Timothy Finin, Enabling Peer to Peer SDP in Agents, Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on "Challenges in Open Agent Systems, July 2002, University of Bologna, held in conjunction with the 2002 Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. link

  196. Sovrin Tolia, Deepali Khushraj and Timothy Finin, ITTalks Event Notification Service An illustrative case for services in the Agentcities Network, Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on Challenges in Open Agent Systems, July 2002, University of Bologna, held in conjunction with the 2002 Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. link

  197. Sovrin Tolia, Anupam Joshi and Timothy Finin, MAGICWEAVER - An AgentBased Simulation Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks, Proc. Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on embedded, wearable and mobile devices, 2002 Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, University of Bologna, 16 July 2002, link

  198. Harry Chen and Tim Finin, Beyond Distributed AI, Agent Teamwork in Ubiquitous Computing, Proc. Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on embedded, wearable and mobile devices, July 16, 2002, University of Bologna, held in conjunction with the 2002 Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. link

  199. Benjamin Grosof, Mahesh Gandhe and Tim Finin, SweetJess: Translating DamlRuleML to Jess, Proc. Int. Workshop on Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules on the Semantic Web, 1st Int. Semantic Web Conf. (ISWC2002), 14 June 2002, Sardinia. link

  200. Sushama Prasad, Yun Peng and Timothy Finin, A tool for mapping between two ontologies using explicit information, AAAI-02 Workshop on Meaning Negotiation, July 28, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  201. Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Me-Services: A Framework for Secure and Personalized Discovery, Composition and Management of Services in Pervasive Environments, Workshop on Web Services, e-Business and the Semantic Web (WES): Foundations, Models, Architecture, Engineering and Applications, In conjunction with CAiSE'02, The Fourteenth Int. Conf. on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 27-28 May, 2002. link

  202. R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, Harry Chen, Lalana Kagal, Filip Perich, Youyong Zou, Sovrin Tolia, ' ITTALKS: A Case Study in the Semantic Web and DAML+OIL', IEEE Intelligent Systems, v17 n1, Jan./Feb. 2002, pp 40-47. link.

  203. S. Avancha, D. Chakraborty, H. Chen, L. Kagal, F. Perich, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Issues in Data Management for Pervasive Environments, In Proc. NSF Workshop on Context Aware Mobile Database management (CAMM), Jan. 24-25, 2002. link.

  204. Harry Chen, Sovrin Tolia, Craig Sayers, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi. "Creating Context-Aware Software Agents." Paper, 1st GSFC/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, 26-28 Sept. 2001. link

  205. Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Lalana Kagal, Olga Ratsimore, Vlad Korolev and Harry Chen, Information Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices, 5th Int. Workshop Cooperative Information Agents, Sept. 6-8, 2001 Modena, Italy. link

  206. Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Moving from Security to Distributed Trust in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, IEEE Computer, Dec. 2001. link

  207. Sasikanth Avancha, Vladimir Korolev, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, Transport Protocols in Wireless Networks, Tenth IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks, Oct. 2001, Scottsdale, Arizona. link

  208. Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin and Yelena Yesha, Agents, Mobility, and M-Services: Creating the next generation applications and infrastructure on mobile ad-hoc networks, Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems, Scottsdale AZ, 15 Oct. 2001.

  209. Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng and Timothy Finin, Agent Consumer Reports: of the Agents, by the Agents and for the Agents, Proc. 2nd Asia-Pacific Conf. on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001), Maebashi City, Japan, Oct. 23-26, 2001. link

  210. Olga Ratsimore, Vladimir Korolev, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, Agents2Go: an infrastructure for location-Dependent Service Discovery in the mobile electronic commerce environment, 1st ACM Mobile Commerce Workshop, July 21, 2001, Rome. link

  211. R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Filip Perich, Charles Nicholas, Harry Chen, Lalana Kagal, Youyong Zou and Sovrin Tolia, ITTALKS: A Case Student in how the Semantic Web Helps, Proc. 1st Int. Semantic Web Workshop - Infrastructure and Applications for the Semantic Web, pp. 477-494, July, 2001, Stanford. link

  212. Stephen Cranefield, Tim Finin and Stephen Willmott (eds.), Proc. Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, 5th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents, Montreal (2001). 117 pages. link

  213. Filip Perich, R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Harry Chen, Lalana Kagal, Youyong Zou and Sovrin Tolia, ITTALKS: An Application of Agents in the Semantic Web, Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents' World, 7 July 2001, Prague. link

  214. Lalana Kagal, Timothy Finin and Yun Peng, A Framework for Distributed Trust, Workshop on Autonomy, Delegation and Control: Interacting with Autonomous Agents, Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001) Seattle, Aug., 2001. link

  215. Lalana Kagal, Scott Cost, Harry Chen, Timothy Finin, Yun Peng, An Infrastructure for Distributed Trust Management, Workshop on Norms and Institutions in Multiagent Systems, Autonomous Agents 2001, Montreal, May 29, 2001. link

  216. Lalana Kagal, Vlad Korolev, Harry Chen, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin, Centaurus: A Framework for Intelligent Services in a Mobile Environment, Int. Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC), Scottsdale AZ, 16 April 2001. link

  217. Chen, H., Joshi, Anupam, Finin, T. and Chakraborty, D., "Dynamic Service Discovery for Mobile Computing: Intelligent Agents meet Jini in the Aether", Baltzer Science Journal on Cluster Computing, Special Issue on Advances in Distributed and Mobile Systems and Communications, v. 4, n. 4, 2001.

  218. Chen, H., Chakraborty, D., Xu, L., Joshi, Anupam and Finin, T., Service Discovery in the Future Electronic Market, Proc. Workshop on Knowledge Based Electronic Markets, AAAI2000, Austix, 2000.

  219. R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou and Yun Peng, Using Colored Petri Nets for Conversation Modeling, in ``Agent Communication Languages'', Frank Dignum and Mark Greaves (editors), Springer, Lecture Notes in AI, 2000. link

  220. R. Scott Cost Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Agent Communication Languages and Agent Coordination, in "Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies and Applications" A. Omicini, F. Zambonelli, M. Klusch, R. Tolksdorf (Eds.), Springer, July 2000. link

  221. Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin, Benjamin Grosof and Yun Peng, Agent Communication Languages, in Handbook of Agent Technology, JeffB radshaw, ed., MIT/AAAI Press, 2000. link

  222. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, History, State of the Art and Challenges for Agent Communication Languages, Informatik/Informatique, Jan. 2000, Swiss Federation of Information Processing Societies. link

  223. Knowledge Based Electronic Markets: Papers from the AAAI Workshop, Tim Finin and Benjamin Grosof (Eds.), AAAI Press, Menlo Park, Aug. 2000, ISBN: 1577351193.

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  224. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Yahoo as an Ontology - using Yahoo categories to describe documents, 1999 ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'99), Kansas City, Nov., 1999. link

  225. Steven Quirolgico, Kip Canfield and Tim Finin, Communicating neural network knowledge between agents in a simulated arial reconnaissance system, 1st Int. Symp. on Agent Systems and Applications, Palm Springs, Oct. 3-6, 1999. link

  226. R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, James Mayfield and Akram Boughannam, ``An Agent-based Infrastructure for Enterprise Integration'', 1st Int. Symp. on Agent Systems and Applications, Palm Springs, Oct. 3-6, 1999. link

  227. Tim Finin and Benjamin Grosof (eds), Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce, AAAI Technical Report WS-99-01 (134 pp.), ISBN 1-57735-085-5. link

  228. Ye Chen, Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou and Scott Cost, A negotiating agents for supply chain management, extended abstract, AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce, Orlando, Florida, July, 1999. link

  229. Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Harry Chen, Ling Wang, Yannis Labrou, R. Scott Cost, Bill Chu, Valerie Cross, Mike Russell, Bill Tolone, Akram Boughannam and Jerry McCobb, An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment, in Proc. of SCI/ISAS'99: The 3rd. World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics and The 5th. Int'l Conf. on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis, Orlando, Florida, July 31-Aug. 3, 1999, Vol VII, 415-421. link

  230. Ye Chen, Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou and Scott Cost, Negotiating agents for supply chain management, Extended abstract, AAAI Workshop on Articial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce, AAAI, Orlando, June 1999. link

  231. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Experiments on using Yahoo! categories to describe documents, IJCAI99 Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration, July 31, 1999, Stockhold, Sweden. link

  232. R. Scott Cost, Ye Chen, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou and Yun Peng, Modeling agent conversations with colored petri nets, Working notes of the Workshop on Specifying and Implementing Conversation Policies, Autonomous Agents '99, Seattle, Washington, May, 1999. link

  233. Ye Chen, Yun Peng, Tim Finin, yannis Labrou, Scott Cost, BIll Chu, Rongming Sun and Bob Willhelm, A negotiation-based multi-agent system for supply chain management, Workshop on supply chain management, Autonomous Agents '99, Seattle, Wa, May 1999. link

  234. R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff and James Mayfield, ``Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development'', poster paper, ACM Autonomous Agents Conf., 1999.

  235. Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin and Yun Peng, The Interoperability Problem: Bringing together Mobile Agents and Agent Communication Languages, Proc. Hawaii Int. Conf. On System Sciences, Jan. 5-8, 1999, Maui, Hawaii. link

  236. Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin and Yun Peng, "The current landscape of Agent Communication Languages", Intelligent Systems, v14, n2, March/April 1999, IEEE Computer Society. link

  237. Mike Grasso, David Ebert and Tim Finin, The integrality of Speech in Multimodal Interfaces, ACM Transactions on Human-computer interactions, 5(4):303-325, 1998. link

  238. Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, R. Scott Cost, B. Chu, J. Long, W. J. Tolone, A. Boughannam, Agent-based approach for manufacturing integration: The CIIMPLEX experience, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 13, Iss. 1-2, 1999. link

  239. R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng, Ian Soboroff, James Mayfield and Akram Boughannam, ``Jackal: a Java-based Tool for Agent Development'' in the Working Papers or the AAAI-98 Workshop on Software Tools for Developing Agents, pages xx-yy. (Workshop Notes available as AAAI Technical Report WS-98-??) link

  240. Tim Finin, Yun Peng and Yannis Labrou, ``Mobile agents can benefit from standards efforts on interagent communication'', IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 50-56, July 1998. (special issue on ``Mobile Software Agents for Telecommunications''). link

  241. Y. Peng, T. Finin, Y. Labrou, B. Chu, B. Tolone and J. Long, ``A multi-agent system for enterprise integration'', Int. Journal of Agile Manufacturing, special issue on Innovative Software Support for Agile Manufacturing. v1, n2, pages 213-229, 1998. link

  242. Bill Chu, W. Tolone, J. Long, R. Willhelm, Y. Peng, T. Finin and M. Mathews, Toward Intelligent Integrated Manufacturing Planning-Execution, The Int. Journal of Agile Manufacturing, v1, issue 2, 1998. link

  243. W. Tolone, B. Chu, J. Lnong, R. Wilhelm, T. Finin, Y. Peng and A. Boughannam, ``Supporting Human Interactions within Integrated Manufactuing Systems'', Int. Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, v1, n2, pages 221-234, 1998.

  244. Qi He, Katia Sycara and Tim Finin, ``Personal Security Agent: KQML-based Public Key Infrastructure'', Proc. ACM Conf. on Autonomous Agents (Agents'98), May, 1998. link

  245. Y. Peng, T. Finin, Y. Labrou, B. Chu, B. Tolone and J. Long, ``A multi-agent system for enterprise integration'' 3rd Int. Conf. and Exhibition on The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology, London, March 1998. link

  246. R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Jeegar Lakhani, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas and Ian Soboroff, Developing communicating software agents in Tcl, Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages IV, M. Wooldridge, J. P. Muller and M. Tambe (eds). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 1998. link

  247. Bill Chu, Bill Tolone, Junsheng Long, Bob Wilhelm, Ronmin Sun, Raja Chandrasakarn, Yun Peng, Tim Finin and Akram Bougannon, "Achieving Manufacturing Agility Using Software Agents", Int. Conf. on Agile Manufacturing, Minneapolis, MN, Jun2 21-23, 1998.

  248. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Towards a standard for an Agent 18Communication Language, AAAI Fall 1997 Symp. on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, Nov. 8-10th, 1997, MIT, Cambridge MA. link

  249. Mike Grasso, David Ebert and Tim Finin, Acceptance of a Speech Interface for Biomedical Data Collection, 1997 AMIA Annual Fall Symp. (SCAMC), 739-743. link

  250. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Semantics for an Agent Communication Language, the 4th Int. Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, Providence RI, July, 1997. link

  251. R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Jeegar Lakhani, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas and Ian Soboroff, Developing communicating software agents in Tcl, the 4th Int. Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, Providence RI, July, 1997. link

  252. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language, in ``Readings in Agents'', Michael Huhns and Munindar Singh (eds), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1997. (Reprinted from IJCAI-97 paper). link

  253. Ramesh S. Patil, Richard E. Fikes, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Don McKay, Tim Finin, Thomas Gruber and Robert Neches, The DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort: Progress Report in ``Readings in Agents'', Michael Huhns and Munindar Singh (eds), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1997.

  254. R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Jeegar Lakhani, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas and Ian Soboroff, Agent Development Support for Tcl, poster and extended abstract, 5th Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop '97, July 14-17, 1997 Boston. link

  255. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language, Proc. 15th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Aug., 1997. link

  256. Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou and James Mayfield, KQML as an agent communication language, invited chapter in Jeff Bradshaw (Ed.), ``Software Agents'', MIT Press, Cambridge, (1997). link

  257. Mike Grasso and Tim Finin, Task Integration in Multimodal Speech Recognition Environments, ACM Crossroads, 3(3):19-22, Spring, 1997. link

  258. B. Chu, B. W. Tolone, R. Wilhelm, M. Hegedus, J. Fesko, T. Finin, Y. Peng, C. Jones, J. Long, M. Matthews, J. Mayfield, J. Shimp, S. Su, Integrating Manufacturing Softwares for Intelligent Planning-Execution: A CIIMPLEX Perspective, Plug and Play Software for Agile Manufacturing, SPIE Int. Symp. of Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, Boston, Nov. 1996. link

  259. Donald McKay, Jon Pastor, Robin McEntire and Tim Finin, An architecture for information agents, in ``Advanced Planning Technology'', (ed. Austin Tate.), The AAAI Press, Menlo Park CA, May 1996, ISBN 0-929280-98-0. link

  260. James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language, in Intelligent Agents Volume II - Proc. 1995 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages. M. Wooldridge, J. P. Muller and M. Tambe (eds). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 1996. link

  261. Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu, Tim Finin and James Mayfield, Secret Agents - A Security Architecture for the KQML agent communication language, Proc. ACM CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, Baltimore, Dec. 1995. link

  262. Tim Finin, Chelliah Thirunavukkarasu, Anupama Potluri, Donald McKay and Robin McEntire, On Agent Domains, Agent Names and Proxy Agents, Proc. ACM CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, Baltimore, Dec. 1995. link

  263. James Mayfield, Tim Finin, William MacCartney, Chetan Shah and Rajkumar Narayanaswamy, Cycic Friends Network, Proc. ACM CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, Baltimore, Dec. 1995. link

  264. James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin. Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language, IJCAI-95 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, Montreal, Quebec, 19-20 Aug. 1995.

  265. James Mayfield, Marty Hall and Tim Finin. Using Automatic Memoization as a Software Engineering Tool in Real-World AI Systems. Proc. IEEE Conf. on Artificial Intelligence for Applications, pp. 87-93, March 1995. link

  266. James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages, in the Proc. 1995 AAAI Spring Symp. on Information Gathering in Distributed Environments, March 1995. link

  267. Tim Finin, Don McKay, Rich Fritzson and Robin McEntire, ``KQML: An Information and Knowledge Exchange Protocol'', in Kazuhiro Fuchi and Toshio Yokoi (Ed.), Knowledge Building and Knowledge Sharing, Ohmsha and IOS Press, 1994.link

  268. Rich Fritzson, Tim Finin, Don McKay and Robin McEntire. KQML - A Language and Protocol for Knowledge and Information Exchange, 13th Int. Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop July 28-30, 1994: Seattle WA.

  269. Tim Finin, Richard Fritzson, Don McKay and Robin McEntire, ``The KQML Information and Knowledge Exchange Protocol'', Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 1994.

  270. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, ``A semantics approach for KQML - a general purpose communication language for software agents''. Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 1994. .link

  271. Martha Palmer, Rebecca Passonneau, Carl Weir and Tim Finin, The Kernel Natural Language Processing System, Artificial Intelligence, v63, Issue (1-2), pp 17-68, Oct. 1993. .link

  272. Tim Finin, Charles Nicholas and Yelena Yesha (eds.), ``Information and Knowledge Management, Expanding the Definition of Database'', Lecture Notes in Computer Science 752, Springer, Berlin, 1993 (ISBN 3-540-57419-0). (reisued June 2000)

  273. Tim Finin, Don McKay, Rich Fritzson and Robin McEntire, ``KQML: An Information and Knowledge Exchange Protocol'', Int. Conf. on Building and Sharing of Very Large-Scale Knowledge Bases, Tokyo, Dec., 1993. link

  274. Bharat Bhargava, Yelena Yesha and Tim Finin, (eds.), Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM Press, New York. Nov., 1993. (ISBN 0-89791-626-3).

  275. Neches, R, et. al, An Overview of the Darpa Knowledge Sharing Effort, Principles Of Knowledge Representation And Reasoning: Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. (KR92), Bernhard Nebel, Charles Rich and William Swartout, eds. Morgan Kaufman, 1992. link

  276. Jon Pastor, Don Mckay and Tim Finin, View-Concepts: Knowledge-Based Access to Databases, 1st Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, Baltimore, Nov. 1992.

  277. Tim Finin, Rich Fritzson and Don McKay, "A Language and Protocol to Support Intelligent Agent Interoperability", 4th National Symp. on Concurrent Engineering, CE & CALS Conf., Washington, DC June 1-4, 1992. link

  278. Tim Finin, Rich Fritzson and Don McKay, ``A High-Level Language and Protocol to Support Intelligent Agent Interoperability'', Workshop on Enabling Technologies for Concurrent Engineering, Concurrent Engineering Research Center, Morgantown, WV, April 1992.

  279. Jon Pastor, Don Mckay and Tim Finin, View-Concepts: Knowledge-Based Access to Databases, Loom Users Workshop, Marina Del Rey, California, March 1992. link

  280. R. Neches, R. Fikes, T. Finin, T. Gruber, R. Patil, T. Senator and W. Swartout, ``Enabling Technology for Knowledge Sharing'', AI Magazine, v. 12, N. 3, pp 37-56, 1991.

  281. Carl Weir, Tim Finin, Robin McEntire and Barry Silk, ``A Three-Tiered Approach to Integrating Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing'', American Society for Information Science Workshop on Language and Information Processing, Oct. 27, 1991, Washington, D.C.

  282. Tim Finin, Robin McEntire, Carl Weir and Barry Silk, A Three-Tiered Approach to Natural Language Text Retrieval, AAAI Workshop on Natural Language Text Retrieval, AAAI, July, 1991.

  283. Carl Weir, Tim Finin, Robin McEntire and Barry Silk, ``The Unisys MUC-3 Text Understanding System'', Proc. 3rd Message Understanding Conf., San Diego, May, 1991.

  284. Carl Weir, Robin McEntire, Barry Silk and Tim Finin, ``MUC-3 Test Results and Analysis'', Proc. 3rd Message Understanding Conf., San Diego, May, 1991.

  285. Don McKay, Tim Finin and Anthony O'Hare, The Intelligent Database Interface, Proc. 1990 National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90), Boston, Aug., 1990. link

  286. Rebecca Passoneau, Carl Weir, Tim Finin and Martha Palmer, Integrating Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Based Processing: Demand Driven Reasoning for Document Analysis, Proc. 1990 National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90), Boston, Aug., 1990. link

  287. Kass, Robert and Tim Finin, ``General User Modeling: A Facility to Support Intelligent Interaction'', in J. Sullivan and S. Tyler (eds.) Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces: Elements and Prototypes, pp. 111-128, ACM Frontier Series, Addison-Wesley, 1990.

  288. Tim Finin and Jim McGuire, Inheritance in Logic Programming Knowledge Bases, extended abstract, ICLP'90 Workshop on Structuring Disciplines for Logic Programming, Int. Conf. on Logic Programming, June, Eilat, Israel, June 1990.

  289. Martha Palmer and Tim Finin, Report on the Workshop on the Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems, Computational Linguistics, 16:3, pp 175-181, Sept., 1990. link

  290. Finin, Tim and Dave Matuszek, ``The Proper Role of an Intelligent Agent in Human-Machine Interfaces'', AAAI Spring Symp. on Knowledge-Based Human-Computer Communication, Palo Alto, March, 1990.

  291. Finin, Tim, ``Interactive Classification - A Technique for the Acquisition and Maintenance of Knowledge Bases'', reprinted in Peter G. Raeth (ed), Expert Systems: A Software Methodology for Modern Applications, 1990.

  292. Finin, Tim, Bonnie Webber and Aravind K. Joshi, ``Natural Language Interactions with Artificial Experts'', reprinted in Peter G. Raeth (ed), Expert Systems: A Software Methodology for Modern Applications, 1990.

  293. Matuszek, David and Tim Finin, ``Human-Machine Interface Tools - An Overview and Underview'', in Proc. 3rd Unisys Software Engineering Symp., Jan. 1990.

  294. Finin, Tim and James McGuire, ``Inheritance Hierarchies in Logic Programming Languages'', in Inheritance Hierarchies in Knowledge Representation, M. Lenzerini, D. Nardi and M. Simi (eds.), Wiley, 1990.

  295. Shimon Schocken and Tim Finin, Meta-Interpreters for Rule-Based Inference Under Uncertainty, Decision Support Systems, 6 (1990), 165-181.

  296. Rebecca Passonneau, Carl Weir and Tim Finin, Interfacing Natural Language Processing and Knowledge-Based Processing in PUNDIT, (extended abstract), Proc. DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop, Morgan Kaufman, 1990.

    1980-89

  297. Finin, Tim, et. al., ``The Intelligent System Server - Delivering AI to Complex Systems'', 1st Int. Workshop on Tools for AI, ``Architectures, Languages and Algorithms'', (sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society), Fairfax, VA, Oct., 1989.

  298. Finin, Tim and David Klein, ``Characterizing Knowledge Depth in Intelligent Safety Systems'', Applied Artificial Intelligence, v3, n2, pp 129-142, (special issue``Towards Causal AI Models in Practice''), 1989.

  299. Finin, Tim and David Klein, ``Characterizing Knowledge Depth in Intelligent Safety Systems'' in Causal AI Models: Steps Towards Applications, Werner Horn (ed), Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1989.

  300. Finin, Tim and Jim McGuire, ``A Hierarchical Database Model with Inheritance for Logic Programming'', Workshop on Inheritance Hierarchies in Knowledge Representation and Programming Languages, Rome, 1989.

  301. Finin, Tim and Rich Fritzson, ``How to Serve Knowledge - Notes on the Design of a Knowledge Base Server'', AAAI Spring Symp. on Knowledge System Development Tools and Languages, Palo Alto, March 1989.

  302. Finin, Tim, Rich Fritzson and Dave Matuszek, ``Adding Forward Chaining and Truth Maintenance to Prolog'', IEEE Conf. on Artificial Intelligence Applications, (pp. 123 - 130), Miami, March 1989.

  303. Finin, Tim and Gary Morris, Abductive Reasoning in Multiple Fault Diagnosis, Artificial Intelligence Review, 3, pp 129-158 (1989).

  304. Finin, Tim, ``A General User Modeling System'', in Kobsa and Wahlster (eds.), User Modeling, Springer Symbolic Computation Series, Springer, 1989.

  305. Finin, Tim, Rich Fritzson, Don McKay and Robin McEntire, ``The Intelligent System Server - Delivering AI to Complex Systems'', (extended abstract), Proc. 7th Annual Intelligence Community AI/Advanced Computing Symp., Reston, Va, Oct. 4-6, 1989.

  306. Kass, Robert and Tim Finin, ``The Role of User Models in Cooperative Interactive Systems'', Int. Journal of Intelligent Systems, 1:4 (81-112), 1989.

  307. John D. Keenan and Tim Finin. ``Developing an Expert System for Hazardous Waste Remediation'', Journal of Resource Management and Technology, 17, 4, (1989).

  308. Kass, Robert and Tim Finin, Modeling the User in Natural Language Systems, Computational Linguistics, 14:3 (pp 5-22), Sept. 1988.

  309. Finin, Tim, ``Default Reasoning and Stereotypes in User Modeling'', Int. Journal of Expert Systems, v1, n2, pp 131-158, 1988.

  310. Kass, Robert and Tim Finin, Acquiring User Models for Tailoring Explanations, (extended abstract), AAAI Workshop on Explanations, pp. 48-54, Aug. 1988, Seattle WA.

  311. Kass, Robert and Tim Finin, ``The Need for User Models in Generating Expert System Explanations'', Int. Journal of Expert Systems, 1:4, pp 345-376, (1988). link

  312. Kass, Robert and Tim Finin, ``General User Modeling: A Facility to Support Intelligent Interaction'', Proc. Workshop on Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces: Elements and Prototypes, Monterey, March, 1988.

  313. Kass, Robert and Tim Finin, ``A General User Modeling Facility'', Proc. of CHI'88 - Conf. of Human Factors in Computing Systems, Washington D.D., May, 1988.

  314. Matuszek, David, Tim Finin, Rich Fritzson and Chris Overton, Endpoint Relations on Temporal Intervals, Proc. 3rd Annual Rocky Mountain Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, (pp. 182 - 188), June 1988.

  315. Finin, Tim and David Klein, On the Requirements of Active Expert Systems, Proc. of AVIGNON 87 - The 7th Int. Conf. on Expert Systems and their Application, pp. 1199-1207, Avignon, France, May 1987.

  316. Finin, Tim and Joshua Levy, ``BBC, A BlackBoard Generating System'', (extended abstract) Proc. AAAI Workshop on Blackboard Systems: Implementational Issues, 1987.

  317. Finin, Tim and Martha Palmer, ``Parsing with Unification and Logical Variables'', in L. Bolc (ed.) Natural Language Parsing Systems, Springer, 1987.

  318. Finin, Tim and John Keenan, Developing an Expert System for Hazardous Waste Remediation, Proc. 3rd Int. Symp. on Industrial Resource Management, New York, Feb., 1987.

  319. Hui, Alan, Michael Feinberg and Tim Finin, DMA: A Depression Treatment Planning System Using an Expectation Driven Advisement Paradigm, (extended abstract), Proc. AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 1987.

  320. Kass, Robert, Ron Katrial and Tim Finin, Breaking the Primitive Concept Barrier, Proc. IEEE 3rd Annual Conf. on AI Applications, Orlando, FL, Feb., 1987.

  321. Kass, Robert and Tim Finin, Rules for the Implicit Acquisition of Knowledge about the User, Proc. The National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), July 1987. link

  322. Klein, David and Tim Finin, What's in a Deep Model - A Characterization of Knowledge Depth in Intelligent Safety Systems, Proc. Tenth Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Aug., 1987.

  323. Finin, Tim, Bonnie Webber and Aravind K. Joshi, ``Natural Language Interactions with Artificial Experts'', in Proc. IEEE, invited paper, pp. 921-938, July 1986.

  324. Finin, Tim, ``Interactive Classification - A Technique for the Acquisition and Maintenance of Knowledge Bases'', Proceedings of the IEEE, v74, n10, Oct. 1986.

  325. Finin, Tim, ``Understanding Frame Languages'', AI Expert, Nov., 1986.

  326. Finin, Tim, ``Implementing PFL'', AI Expert, Dec., 1986.

  327. Finin, Tim, ``Constraining the Interpretation of Nominal Compounds in a Limited Context'', in Grishman and Kitterage (ed.) Analyzing Language in Restricted Domains, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 163-173, 1986.

  328. Finin, Tim and David Drager, GUMS - A General User Modeling System, Proc. 1986 Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI-86), May 1986.

  329. Finin, Tim and David Drager, A General User Modeling Shell, Proc. DARPA Strategic Computing Natural Language Processing Workshop, Information Sciences Institute, USC, May 1986.

  330. Kass, Robert and Tim Finin, User Models in Intelligent Interfaces: Why They are Needed, Problems with Their Implementation, Proc. AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces, Aug., 1986.

  331. Ethel Schuster and Tim Finin, ``VP2 - The Role of User Modeling in Correcting Errors in 2nd Language Learning'', in A.G. Cohn and J.R. Thomas (ed). Artificial Intelligence and its Applications, John Wiley and Sons Limited, 1986.

  332. Aravind Joshi. Tim Finin, Dale Miller, Lokendra Shastri and Bonnie Webber, Research in natural language processing, Human Language Technology Conf., Proc. workshop on Strategic computing: natural language, Marina del Rey, pp 30-36, MAy 1986. link

  333. Finin, Tim and Norm Badler, ``Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence'', Computer Graphics and Applications, v5, n11, Nov. 1985.

  334. Finin, Tim, ``Interactive Classification as a Knowledge Acquisition Tool'', in L. Kerschberg (Ed.) Expert Data Base Systems, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co., Menlo Park CA, 1985.

  335. Schuster, Ethel and Tim Finin, VP2: The Role of User Modeling in Correcting Errors in 2nd Language Learning, Proc. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior, April 1985.

  336. Finin, Tim, John McAdams and Pam Kleinosky, Expert Systems for Automatic Test Equipment, Proc. 1984 Conf. on Intelligent Systems, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 1984.

  337. Finin, Tim, John McAdams and Pam Kleinosky, FOREST - An Expert System for Automatic Test Equipment, Proc. 1st IEEE Conf. on Artificial Intelligence Applications, Denver, Colorado, Dec. 1984.

  338. Finin, Tim and David Silverman, Interactive Classification of Conceptual Knowledge. In Proc. 1st Int. Workshop on Expert Database Systems, Larry Kerschberg (Ed.). Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co., Inc., Redwood City CA, 79-90, Oct. 1984.

  339. Finin, Tim and David Silverman, Interactive Classification - A Technique for the Acquisition and Maintenance of Knowledge Bases, Proc. IEEE Workshop on Principals of Knowledge-Based Systems, Denver, Dec. 1984.

  340. Howe, Adele and Tim Finin, Using Spreading Activation to Identify Relevant Help, Proc. 1984 Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI-84), 1984.

  341. Webber, Bonnie and Tim Finin, ``In Response: Next Steps in Natural Language Interaction'', in W. Reitman (ed.), Artificial Intelligence Applications for Business. Norwood NJ: Ablex Publishing Co., 1984.

  342. Finin, Tim and Martha Palmer, Parsing with Logical Variables, Proc. Conf. on Applied Natural Language Processing, Santa Monica, 1983.

  343. Finin, Tim, Providing Help and Advice in Task Oriented Systems, Proc. Eighth Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, 1983.

  344. Tom Kehler, Avron Barr, Tim Finin, Peter Friedland, Mike Genesereth, Jim Miller, Mark Miller, Elliot Soloway and Harry Tennan, Intelligent Assistance for Complex Systems, Proc. ACM '82 Conf., ACM Press, 1982. link

  345. Shrager, Jeff and Tim Finin, An Expert System that Volunteers Advice, Proc. 2nd Annual National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-82), 1982. link

  346. Finin, Tim, ``Parsing with ATN Grammars'', in Leonard Bolc (ed.) The Design of Interpreters, Compilers and Editors for Augmented Transition Networks, Springer, Berlin, 1981.

  347. Finin, Tim, The Semantic Interpretation of Nominal Compounds, in Proc. 1st Annual National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-80), 1980. link

    1977-79

  348. Finin, Tim, Brad Goodman and Harry Tennant, JETS: Achieving Completeness Through Coverage and Closure, Proc. 6th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, 1979.

  349. Finin, Tim and George Hadden, Augmenting ATNs, Proc. 5th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, 1977.

  350. Tim Finin and Paul Rutter, Different fringe for different folk. SIGART Newsletter, No. 60, Nov., 1976, pp 4-5.

Funded research contracts, grants and gifts

(Principal investigator or Co-Principal Investigator, unless otherwise noted)

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  1. CDI-Type II: GLOBE: Evolving New Global Workflows for Land Change Science, NSF, CO-PI, (recommended for funding) $1.93M, 2011-15.

  2. Platys: From Position to Place in Next Generation Networks, NSF, $700K, 2009-13.

  3. Inferring the semantics of structured and unstructured data, Microsoft External Research, $100K, 2009-10.

  4. Understanding RSM: Relief Social Media, Office of Naval Research (via subcontract from Lockheed Martin), $135K, 2009-11.

  5. A Framework for Managing the Assured Information Sharing Lifecycle, Multi-disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), AFOSR, $7.5M, 2008-13.

  6. Policy-based WAN Configuration and Management, DARPA Phase II STTR with Shared Spectrum Company, 2008-2009.

  7. Modeling influence, bias and information flow in Social Media, Google, 2008-09, $60K

  8. Modelling bias, influence and information flow in social media, Microsoft Research 2008-09, $55K

  9. CT-T: Collaborative Research: A Semantic Framework for Policy Specification and Enforcement in a Need to Share Environment, PI, NSF (0716627), 2007-08, $50K.

  10. SPINTEL:Information Quality for the Intelligence Analysis, Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory, 2007, $40K.

  11. Policy-based WAN Configuration and Management, DARPA Phase I STTR with Shared Spectrum Company, 2006-2007, $40K.

  12. National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) and University of Maryland Baltimore County Invasive Species Collaboration Project, US Geological Survey, $5K, 2005.

  13. Supporting Large Scale Computational Research in Autonomic Systems, Bioinformatics and the Environmental Sciences, CO-PI, IBM Shared University Research, equipment award, 2005.

  14. Context Aware Surgical Training, University of Maryland Medical Center, 2006-2008.

  15. Trauma Pod middleware, DARPA (via University of Maryland Medical System), 2005-2007. link

  16. Indexing and retrieving semantic web documents, Fujitsu Labs of America, $20K, 2005.

  17. Computational Support for Research in Large-Scale Autonomic Systems, Bioinformatics, and Environmental Sciences, CO-PI, IBM Shared University Research, equipment award, 2004.

  18. Research support for task computing, Fujitsu Labs of America, $56K, 2004-5.

  19. ITR: Science on the Semantic Web: Prototypes in Bioinformatics, PI, NSF (0326460), 2003-8, $2.35M. link

  20. ITR-SemDis: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web, CO-PI, NSF (0325172), 2003-5.

  21. Trust and security for the Semantic Web, PI, NSF, $240K, 2003-2006. link

  22. Research in pervasive computing, Fujitsu Labs of America, $15K, 2003.

  23. An Eclipse IDE for Security, Trust and Privacy Policies, CO-PI, IBM, $25K, 2003.

  24. Research on advanced information systems for mobile computing, the semantic web and bioiformatics, CO-PI, IBM Shared University Research, equipment award, 2003.

  25. National Science Foundation, Profile Driven Architecture for Data Management in Pervasive Environments, $153,190 Anupam Joshi (PI), Tim Finin (CO-PI), and Yelena Yesha (CO-PI), 2002-2005. link

  26. National Science Foundation, Agent Oriented Approaches to a Ubiquitous Grid, $480,726, Anupam Joshi (PI), Elias Houstis (CO-PI), Tim Finin (CO-PI), Hillol Kargupta (CO-PI), 2002-2005 link

  27. Intelligent agents for electronic service registration, discovery, and negotiation, Hewlett Packard, 2002, $30K.

  28. NGS: Workshop on Manufacturing Software Integration Research: Status and Future Directions, National Science Foundation, $20K, CO-PI, 2001-2002.

  29. Intelligent agents for electronic service registration, discovery, and negotiation, Hewlett Packard, 2001, $30K.

  30. Research in Agent Communication Languages, Fujitsu Corporation, $30K, 2000-01.

  31. AetherSystens Inc, Home Automation Service Discovery, $132,720, (Co-PI with Anupam Joshi and Yelena Yesha), 2000.

  32. National Science Foundation, Dynamic Negotiation Agents in Mobile Computing, $174,000, (with Anumpam Joshi and Yelena Yesha, Co-PIs), 2000-2003. link

  33. DAML Tools for supporting Intelligent Information Annotation, Sharing and Retrieval, DARPA, $2,018,000, 2000-2005. link

  34. Research in Agent Communication Languages, Fujitsu Corporation, $40K, 1999-00.

  35. Coordinated Agent Test and Demonstration Environment, PI on subcontract to Global InfoTek for DARPA COABS program (BAA98-01), $460K, 1998-01.

  36. Research in Agent Communication Languages, Fujitsu Corporation, $40K, 1998-99.

  37. Extended Enterprise Coalition for Integrated Collaborative Manufacturing Systems, PI, $775K, 1998-00. NIST ATP/TIMA program.

  38. Security for software agents. PI, $50K, 1997-8, Department of Defense.

  39. Computer Integrated Knowledge Systems. PI, $50K, 1997-8, NIST.

  40. An agent-based framework for integrated intelligent Planning-execution. PI. $900K, 1996-99. NIST ATP/TIMA program.

  41. A Capability Package Supporting Evolutionary Views of Lifecycle Versions, Elements and Rationales, DARPA Evolutionary Design of Complex Software program. CO-PI. $160K, 1996-1999.

  42. An Agent-based Architecture for Large-Scale Document Information Systems, CO-PI, $260K, 1994-97, Department of Defense.

  43. A Study to Assess the Usefulness of Cyc in a Mediated Architecture, CO-PI. Department of Defense, $50K, 1995-96.

  44. Research on Unitree Mass Storage System, NASA/USRA, $31K, 94-95.

  45. Intelligent Integration of Knowledge-based Systems, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA/SISTO), jointly with Unisys and SUNY Buffalo, ($160K 1994-96).

  46. Study and Evaluation of Persistent Object Base Systems, National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), $159K, 1994-96.

  47. Research on Digital Libraries and Computer Systems Performance, NASA, $67K, 1993-94.

  48. AASERT Grant for Intelligent Agent Protocols, Air Force Office of Scientific Research $70K, 1993-95.

  49. Intelligent Agent Protocols, Air Force Office of Scientific Research $109K, 1992-95.

  50. A Development Environment for Spoken Language Systems, UMBC DRIF GRA Application, 1992. $1K.

Unisys

  1. Persistent Storage Technology for Planning and Scheduling, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA/ISTO) and Rome Laboratory, $2.5M, 1993-1995.

  2. Intelligent Database Interface for Knowledge-Based Planning and Scheduling, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA/ISTO) and Rome Air Development Center (RADC), $1.5M, 1991-1993.

  3. Human-Machine Interface Tools, internal research and development project, Unisys Custom Systems Division, 1989.

  4. Intelligent System Server, internal research and development project, Unisys Custom Systems Division, 1989.

University of Pennsylvania

  1. An Expert System for the Design of Injection Molded Packaging, co-principal investigator, Benjamin Franklin Partnership, $50K, 1987.

  2. Artificial Intelligence Research and Training, Internal Revenue Service, co-principal investigator, $300K, 1987-1988.

  3. Research in Natural Language, Co-Principal Investigator, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA/ISTO) and Office of Naval Research (ONR), $2.1M 1986-1989,

  4. Apple Development Grant, equipment grant of $8K, 1986.

  5. Techniques for the Acquisition and Maintenance of Knowledge Bases, principal investigator, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1986-1987, $60K.

  6. An Interactive CAD/CAM System for the Engineering Design of Injection Molded Plastic Parts, co-principal investigator, $300K, Scott Paper Company, 1986 - 1987.

  7. Distributed Expert Systems, principal investigator, $75K, Army Research Office, 1986-87.

  8. Equipment Grant, Apple, $10K, December 1986.

  9. Artificial Intelligence Research and Training, Internal Revenue Service, co-principal investigator, $300K, 1985-1986.

  10. HP Prism Grant, Hewlett-Packard, co-principal investigator, Equipment Grant of $3.3M over three years, 1985-88.

  11. Apple Development Grant, Apple, $6K, 1985.

  12. Scheme Software and Hardware, Texas Instruments, $6K, 1985.

  13. IBM Faculty Development Award, $100K, 1983-84.

  14. Natural Interfaces to Expert Systems, Equipment Grant, Hewlett-Packard Research Partnership Program, co-principal investigator, $140K. 1983.

  15. A Knowledge Based Approach to Intelligent Interactive Help Systems, NSF Research Initiation Grant, $100K, 1982 - 1984.

Teaching

Teaching and mentoring

Dissertations supervised

Completed

  • Justin Martineau, Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis, 2011
  • Zareen Syed, Wikitology: A novel hybrid knowledge base derived from Wikipedia, August 2010
  • Akshay Java, Mining Social Media Communities and Content, October 2008
  • Pranam Kolari, Detecting Spam Blogs: An Adaptive Online Approach, December 2007
  • Olga Ratsimore, Coordination by bartering electronic goods and services, May 2007
  • Li Ding, On Boosting Semantic Web Data Access, March 2006
  • Harry Chen, An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems, December 2004
  • Lalana Kagal, A Policy-Based Approach to Governing Autonomous Behavior in Distributed Environments, September 2004
  • Youyong Zou, Agent-Based Services for the Semantic Web, August 2004
  • Olga Streltchenko, Exploring Trading Dynamics in a Derivative Securities Market of Heterogeneous Agents, (co-advised with Charles Nicholas), December 2003
  • R. Scott Cost, Conversations and Protocols for Software Agents, August 1999
  • Muhammad Abdallah Rabi, Relationships Among Security and Algebraic Properties of Cryptographic Objects, and a Security Infrastructure for Agent Communication Languages, August 1998 (co-advised with A. Sherman)
  • Ellis Clarke, Knowledge discovery in historical databases, May 1998
  • Michael Grasso, Speech Input in Multimodal Environments: Effects of Perceptual Structure on Speed, Accuracy, and Acceptance, 1997 (co-advised with D. Ebert)
  • Yannis K. Labrou, The semantic specification of the KQML agent communication language , 1996
  • David Klein, A Framework for the Explanation and Refinement of a Formal Choice Model, University of Pennsylvania, 1989 (co-advised with T. Shortliffe)
  • Robert Kass, Automatic Acquisition of User Models in Cooperative Advising Systems, University of Pennsylvania, 1988

In progress

  • Jennifer Sleeman, expected 2013
  • Karuna Joshi, expected 2013 (co-advised with Y. Yesha)
  • Joel Sachs, expected 2012
  • Robert Holder, expected 2012 (co-advised with M. desJardins)
  • Lushan Han, expected 2011

Courses Taught

University of Maryland Baltimore County

  • Computer Science I (CMSC201, undergraduate)
  • Programming Languages (CMSC331, undergraduate)
  • Database Management Systems (CMSC461, undergraduate)
  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CMSC471, undergraduate)
  • Principles of Database Systems (CMSC661, graduate)
  • Principles of Artificial Intelligence (CMSC671, graduate)
  • Advanced Artificial Intelligence (CMSC771, graduate)
  • Theory and practice of Knowledge Representation (CMSC771, graduate)
  • Research methods (CMSC601, graduate)
  • Communication Skills (CMSC692, graduate)
  • Special topics in Computer Science, Teaching Cs1 in Python (CMSC691, graduate)
  • Special topics in Computer Science, Intelligent Agents (CMSC691, graduate)
  • Special topics in Computer Science, Semantic Web (CMSC691, graduate)
  • Special topics in Computer Science, Intelligent Information Systems (CMSC891, graduate)

University of Pennsylvania, Department of Decision Sciences, Wharton School of Business

  • Decision Support Systems (graduate)

University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (graduate)
  • Seminar on Natural Language Processing (graduate)
  • Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (graduate)
  • Programming Languages and Techniques (graduate)
  • Interactive Systems (undergraduate)
  • Data Structures (undergraduate)
  • Programming Languages and Techniques (undergraduate)
  • Introduction to Computing (undergraduate)

Professional service

Professional service

Awards and Honors

  • UMBC Presidential Research Professor, 2012-2015
  • IEEE Technical Achievement Award (2009) "For pioneering contributions to Distributed Intelligent Systems"
  • Appointment as Fellow, Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (1997)
  • IBM Faculty Development Award (1983-84)

Advisory boards and studies

  • Committee of Visitors for NSF's CISE Information and Intelligent Systems Division, 2005.

  • member, scientific advisory committee, Computation Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2005-2009.

  • member, Joint DARPA/EU Semantic Web Services Committee, 2003-2005.

  • member, World Wide Web Consortium Web Ontologies Working Group, 2001-2005.

  • Advisory board, Advanced Information Technology, Smith-Klein Beechum, 1999-2004.

  • Planning committee, CRA study on the Information Technology Workforce, (NSF sponsored), 1998-99.

  • Steering committee, Institute for Global Electronic Commerce, 1997-2002.

  • Executive board, Computer Research Association (AAAI representative), 1997-present.

  • Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1994-97.

  • 1991 NSF Presidential Young Investigatory review board.

  • Advisory board, DARPA/NSF Knowledge Representation Standards Initiative, 1990-1996.

Current Editorial Activities

  • Editor-in-chief, Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier, 2005-.

  • Editorial board, Int. Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, InderScience

  • Editorial Board, Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer, 1988-.

Past Editorial Activities

  • Editorial board, Int. Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, World Scientific, 2005-2010.

  • Editorial board, Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Advisory board, Int. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management

  • Editor, AgentNews, ISSN 1090-306. AgentNews is an electronic newsletter distributed electronically by email and over the world-wide web. Published about 15 times per year with approximately 1600 direct subscribers.

  • Co-editor with M. Koubarakis and Y. Labrou, Special issue on Intelligent Information Agents in the Internet and the WWW Age, Int. Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol 11 number 1, March 2002.

  • Joint Editor, Tutorial Monographs in Artificial Intelligence (Ablex Publishing Corporation), 1988 - 1991.

  • Editorial Board, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, Kluwer, 1989 - 1997.

  • Editorial Board, IEEE Expert, IEEE Press, 1990 - 1993.

  • Associate, Behavioral and Brain Science, 1989-1990.

  • Comtex Scientific Corporation, member of editorial board - Artificial Intelligence Series, 1982 - 1984.

  • Guest Editor, Computer Graphics and Applications, special issue on ``Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence'', Volume 5 number 11, November 1985.

Major conference and workshop activities (last five years)

  • Organizer, AAAI Fall Symposium on Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges, November 2011.

  • Organizer, AAAI Workshop on Activity Context Representation: Techniques and Languages, San Francisco, August 2011. link

  • Organizer, NSF-IUSSTF Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for Security Monitoring and Intelligence Extraction Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 9-13 January 2010.

  • Organizer, Workshop on 'Semantics for the Rest of Us, Variants of RDF and OWL in the Real World', 18th Int. World Wide Web Conf., Madrid, April 2009. link

  • General chair, Int. Semantic Web Conf., Karlsruhe DE, October 2008. link

  • Organizer, Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, Seattle, 30 March - 2 April 2008. link

  • Organizer, AAAI Fall symposium on Regarding the "Intelligence" in Distributed Intelligent Systems, Arlington VA, 8-11 November, 2007.

  • Co-Chair, Artificial Intelligence and the Web, a special technical paper track at the 22nd National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Boston (AAAI-07) , July 2007.

  • Co-Chair, Artificial Intelligence and the Web, a special technical paper track at the 21st National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Boston (AAAI-06) , 16-20 July 2006.

  • Organizer, AAAI Fall Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, Arlington VA, 12-15 October 2006.

  • Organizer, ECAI Workshop on the use of Semantic Web Technologies for Ubiquitous and Mobile Applications (SWUMA), Tentino IT, 28 August 2006. link

  • Organizer, Workshop on Models of Trust for the Web (MTW'06), 15th Int. World Wide Web Conf. (WWW2006), 22 May 2006, Edinburgh. link

Program committee member (last five years)

  • IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligence and Security Informatics(ISI 2012), 11-14 June 2012, Washington, DC, USA

  • IEEE Int. Symp. on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, 16-18 July 2012, Chapel Hill, USA

  • Senior Program Committee Member, 6th Int. AAAI Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-12), 4-8 June 2012, Dublin, Ireland

  • 9th Extended Semantic Web Conf., Crete, May 2012

  • ICDE Workshop on Secure Data Management on Smartphones and Mobiles, in conjunction with ICDE 2012 , April 1-5, Washington D.C.

  • 11th Int. Semantic Web Conf. (ISWC-2011), Outrageous Ideas Track, November 2011.

  • ACM Symposium on New Ideas in Programming and Reflections on Software, October 2011, Portland OR.

  • Int. Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Collaborative Technologies, Philadelphia., May 2011.

  • First Workshop on Question Answering over Linked Data (QALD-1), collocated with the Extended Semantic Web Conf. (ESWC), May 2011.

  • IEEE Conf. on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Beijing, China, 10-12 July 2011.

  • 2011 Int. Conf. on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP11), Match 2011.

  • Senior program committee, Tenth Int. Semantic Web Conf., Shanghai, November 2010.

  • Area chair, 9th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Toronto, May 2010.

  • Int. Conf. on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP10), March 2010.

  • Int. Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Collaborative Technologies, Chicago, Illinois, May 2010.

  • Fourth AAAI Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, senior programm committee member, Washington DC, 24-26 May 2010. link

  • Senior program committee, Ninth Int. Semantic Web Conf., Washington DC, October 2009.

  • Semantic Web Area, WWW2010, 26-30 April, 2010, Raleigh NC. link

  • Second Int. Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, Phoenix, March 31 - April 1, 2009

  • AAAI Spring SYmposium on Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0, Stanford, March 2009.

  • Third Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, San Jose, May 2009.

  • Senior program committee, 21st Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Pasadena, July 2009.

  • Semantic/Data Web track of the 18th Int. World Wide Web conference (WWW2009), Madrid, Spain on April 20-24, 2009.

  • Vice chair, The 6th Int. Semantic Web Conf., November 2007.

  • Third Int. Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, Banff, 8 May 2007. link

  • Senior program committee, 2007 Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 14-18 May 2007, Honolulu, Hawai'i.

  • IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, 13-15, June 2007 Bologna, Italy. link

  • First Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, 26-28 March 2007, Boulder CO. link.

  • Semantic Web track, World Wide Web Conf., 8-12 May 2007, Banff, Canada.

  • Senior program committee, The 5th Int. Semantic Web Conf., 5-9 November 2006, Athens GA.

  • Ubiquitous Access Control, Workshop at Mobiquitous 2006 17-21 July 2006, San Jose.

  • Semantic Web and Databases Workshop, ICDE 2006, Atlanta GA, 3-7 April 2006. link

  • First on-Line conference on Metadata and Semantics Research

Invited Talks

Keynote and invited talks (last five years)

2012

Keynote talk, Third International Workshop on Data Engineering Meets the Semantic Web (DESWEB) co-located with the the annual IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2012), 1 April 2012.

2011

Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use for eScience Applications, Microsoft Research 2011 eScience Workshop, co-located with the IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Stockholm, December 2011.

New Applications forInformation Extraction, Qualcomm Research, January 2011.

2010

Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data, NSF-IUSSTF Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for Security Monitoring and Intelligence Extraction Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 9-13 January 2010.

Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Valentia ES, 24 January 2010.

2009

Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data, Infosys Aurora Conference, Los Angeles, October 2009.

Managing the Assured Information Sharing Lifecycle, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, Dallas, June 8, 2009.

Wikipedia as an ontology, AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Semantic Web, March 23, 2009.

Creating and exploiting a web of (semantic) data, CSEE Research Review, May 1, 2009

Creating and exploiting a web of (semantic) data, Human Language Technology Center of Excellance, Johns Hopkins University, April 2009.

2008

Finding knowledge, data and answers on the Semantic Web, The Semantic Web meets the Deep Web Workshop, held at the IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services, July 2008, Arlington VA.

An overview of Social Media Content Analysis, Micrsoft Social Media Workshop, Seattle, July 30 2008.

2007

Wikitology: Wikipedia as an Ontology, Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory, Arlington VA, December 2007.

Computational Policies in a Need to Share Environment, Microsoft SemGrail Workshop, June 2007, Redmond WA.

Finding knowledge, data and answers on the Semantic Web, 20th International FLAIRS Conference, Key West FL, 9 May 2007.

2006

Finding knowledge, data and answers on the Semantic Web, MIT Decentralized Information Group, 17 July 2006, Cambridge MA.

Swoogle: Finding knowledge, data and answers on the Semantic Web, Fifth Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference, 10-11 October 2006, MITRE, McLean VA.

2005

Panelist: OWL leaves the nest, First International Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web, Arlington, 4 Novembr 205.

Multiagent Systems meet the Semantic Web in the Aether, keynote talk, Mobility aware technology and applications Workshop, 18 October, 2005, Montreal.

Intelligent Agents meet the Semantic Web, Oakridge National Laboratory, APril 5, 2005.

Building Intelligent Applications Using Ontologies and the Semantic Web, tutorial presented at the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 13 -17, 2005