Timothy Wilking Finin
Curriculum Vitae 2006
http://umbc.edu/~finin/cv/

Contact

Timothy W. Finin, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore MD 21250. Voice: +1-410-455-3522, fax: +1-410-455-3969, mailto:finin@umbc.edu, http://umbc.edu/finin/, Airport: BWI, Citizenship: US, AIM: timfinin, longlat: (39.256318,-76.716211), metadata: http://umbc.edu/~finin/finin.rdf.

Research Interests

Artificial intelligence, semantic web, social media, natural language processing and information retrieval, 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

         2008

  1. Lushan Han, Tim Finin, Cynthia Parr, Joel Sachs, and Anupam Joshi, RDF123: from Spreadsheets to RDF, Seventh International Semantic Web Conference, 26-31 October 2008, Karlsruhe, DE.

  2. 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 International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2008), 24-27 August 2008, Las Vegas NV. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/406/

  3. 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, to appear, October 2008.

  4. Pranam Kolari and Tim Finin, Spings und Splog, (in German), Linux Technical Review, number 07, Linux Magazin, Munchen, August 2008.

  5. Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Anubav Kale and Amit Krandikar, The Information ecology of social media and online communities, AI Magazine, to appear, 2008. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/371/

  6. Palanivel Andiappan Kodeswaran, Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, "Enforcing security in semantics driven policy based networks", Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, Secure Semantic Web, April 2008. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/393/Enforcing-security-in-semantics-driven-policy-based-networks

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

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

  9. Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Lalana Kagal, Jianwei Niu, Ravi Sandhu, William H Winsborough, and Bhavani Thuraisingham, Role Based Access Control and OWL, Proceedings of the Fourth OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop, April 2008. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/385/

  10. Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, Approximating the Community Structure of the Long Tail, (poster paper), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, AAAI Press, March 2008. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/381/

  11. Amit Karandikar, Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Yelena Yesha, and Yaacov Yesha, Second Space: A Generative Model For The Blogosphere, (poster paper), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, AAAI Press, March 2008. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/382/

  12. Zareen Syed, Tim Finin, and Anupam Joshi, Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, AAAI Press, March 2008. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/383/

  13. 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, Volume 2, Number 1, February 2008.

    2007

  14. Tim Finin, Lalana Kagal and Daniel Olmedilla (Eds.), Proceedings of the workshop on privacy enforcement and accountability with semantics, held in conjunction with the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, Busan, Korea, November 2007.

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

  16. Akshay Java, Sergei Nirneburg, Marjorie McShane, Timothy Finin, Jesse English and Anupam Joshi, Using a Natural Language Understanding System to Generate Semantic Web Content, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, 3(4), 2007. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/369/

  17. 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 First International Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Context Aware Systems and Applications, Philadelphia, August 2007.

  18. 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, August 2007. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/367/

  19. 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, Volume 12, Numbers 2-3, pp. 215-228, Springer, June 2007.

  20. Tim Finin, Joel Sachs, and Cynthia Parr, Finding Data, Knowledge, and Answers on the Semantic Web, Proceedings of the 20th International FLAIRS Conference, AAAI Press, May 2007. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/353/

  21. Lalana Kagal and Tim Finin, Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pp 187-206, volume 14, number 2, April 2007. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/273/

  22. Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Oates, Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), Boulder, Colorado, 25 March 2007. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/314/

  23. Anubhav Kale, Amit Karandikar, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, Modeling Trust and Influence in the Blogosphere Using Link Polarity, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), Boulder, Colorado, 25 March 2007. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/351/

  24. 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, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), Boulder, Colorado, 25 March 2007. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/343/

  25. Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Akshay Java, and Anupam Joshi Towards Spam Detection at Ping Servers, short demonstration paper, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), Boulder, Colorado, 25 March 2007. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/342/

  26. Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Anupam Joshi, and Justin Martineau, BlogVox: Separating Blog Wheat from Blog Chaff, Proceedings of the Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2007), January 2007. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/326/

  27. Pavan Reddivari, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Policy-Based Access Control for an RDF Store, Proceedings of the IJCAI-07 Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, January, 2007. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/334

    2006

  28. Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Anupam Joshi, and Justin Martineau, Blog Track Open Task: Spam Blog Classification, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/318/

  29. Akshay Java, Pranam Kolari, Justin Martineau, Tim Finin, James Mayfield, and Anupam Joshi, The BlogVox Opinion Retrieval System Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/352/

  30. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/315/

  31. 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 Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, 13-15 October 2006, Hyatt Crystal City, Arlington, VA. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/319/

  32. Li Ding and Tim Finin, Characterizing the Semantic Web on the Web, Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference, Athens GA, 5-9 November 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/316/

  33. Anand Patwardhan, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, and Yelena Yesha, A Data Intensive Reputation Management Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications, held in conjunction with The 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services, San Jose, 21 July 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/306/

  34. Lalana Kagal Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi and Sol Greenspan, Security and Privacy in Open and Dynamic Environments, IEEE Computer, volume 39, number 5, June 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/308/

  35. Tim Finin and Li Ding, Search Engines for Semantic Web Knowledge, Proceedings of XTech 2006: Building Web 2.0, 16-19 May 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/304/Search-Engines-for-Semantic-Web-Knowledge

  36. Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Tim Oates, and Anupam Joshi, Detecting Spam Blogs: A Machine Learning Approach, Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), July 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/296/Detecting-Spam-Blogs-A-Machine-Learning-Approach

  37. Anand Patwardhan, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Querying in packs: Trustworthy Data Management in Ad Hoc Networks, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, 21 July 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/306/

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

  39. Akshay Java, Tim Finin, and Sergei Nirenburg, SemNews: A Semantic News Framework, Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), July 2006.

  40. 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, Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 18 July 2006, Boston. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/313/

  41. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/279/

  42. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/297/

  43. 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 International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, May 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/303/

  44. Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java and Tim Finin, "Characterizing the Splogosphere", Third Annual Workshop on Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics, held in conjunction with WWW2006, Edinboro, May 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/299/

  45. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/284/

  46. Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, SVMs for the Blogosphere: Blog Identification and Spam Detection, submitted, AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs, Stanford, March 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/269/

  47. 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 January, 2006. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/260/

    2005

  48. Mike Huhns et. al, "Research Directions for Service-Oriented Multiagent Systems," IEEE Internet Computing, v9, n6, pp. 65-70, November/December 2005. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/270/

  49. Li Ding, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Rong Pan and Pavan Reddivari, Search on the Semantic Web, IEEE Computer, October 2005. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/257/

  50. 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 November 2005, Washington DC. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/244/

  51. 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, September/October 2005. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/243/

  52. Li Ding, Rong Pan, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng and Pranam Kolari, Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web, Proceedings of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference, Galway IE, Nov. 2005. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/241/

  53. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/263/

  54. Akshay Java, Tim Finin and Sergei Nirenburg, Integrating Language Understanding Agents Into the Semantic Web, First Int. Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web, 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Arlington VA, 4-6 November, 2005. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/261/

  55. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/238/

  56. 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. http://www.birkhauser.ch/3-7643-7237-0

  57. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/223/

  58. Tim Finin, Li Ding, Lina Zhou and Anupam Joshi, Social Networking on the Semantic Web, Learning Organization Journal, v12, n5, pp 418-435, 2005. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/222/

  59. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/220/

  60. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/219/

  61. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/216/

  62. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/158/

  63. 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 Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security, 21-25 March 2005. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/209/

  64. 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-Verlag, LNCS, January, 2005.

  65. 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, January 2005. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/175/

  66. 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, January 2005. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/184/

  67. 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, January 2005. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/183/

    2004

  68. 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, December 2004. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/203/

  69. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/202/

  70. 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, November/December, 2004. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/201/

  71. 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, October, 2004. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/193/

  72. 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-Verlag, 2004. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/MASFinMktnew.pdf

  73. 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, Thirteenth ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'04), Washington DC, November 2004. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/182/

  74. Tim Finin and Joel Sachs, Will the Semantic Web Change Science?, Science Next Wave, September 2004. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/189/

  75. Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng and Timothy Finin, Quantitative Agent Service Matching, 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence (WI'04), 20-24 September, 2004, Beijing. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/181/

  76. 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/August), 2004. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/174/

  77. Deepali Khushraj, Ora Lassila and Tim Finin, sTuples: Semantic Tuple Spaces, Proc. Int. Conf. on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, Boston, August 22, 2004. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/293/

  78. 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, August 2004. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/167/

  79. 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, August 2004.

  80. Lalana Kagal and Tim Finin, A Generic Model for Conversation Specifications and Policies based on Permissions and Obligations, AAMAS 2004 Workshop on Agent Communication (AC2004), July 2004. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/166/

  81. 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 22-25, 2004, Monterey CA.

  82. Harry Chen, Filip Perich, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Tim Finin and Anupam Josh, Intelligent Agents Meet Semantic Web in a Smart Meeting Room, The Third Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, New York, July 19-23 July, 2004. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/156/

  83. 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).

  84. 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, December 2004. (ISBN: 0849319714)

  85. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/get/a/publication/76.pdf

  86. 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. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/159/

  87. Lalana Kagal, Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Grit Denker, Tim Finin and Katia Sycara, Authorization and Privacy for Semantic Web Services, AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium on Semantic Web Services, Stanford, March 2004. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/AAAIaowl2004.pdf

  88. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, A Context Broker for Building Smart Meeting Rooms, AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium on Knowledge Representation and Ontology for Autonomous Systems, Stanford, March 2004. Draft: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~hchen4/download/kroas04.pdf

  89. 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.

  90. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ker03a.draft.pdf

    2003

  91. Deepali Khushraj, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Semantic Tuple Spaces: A Coordination Infrastructure in Mobile Environments, poster paper, Second Int. Semantic Web Conf. (ISWC2003). http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/76/

  92. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, An Intelligent Broker for Context-Aware Systems, poster paper, the Fifth Annual Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing, 12-15 Oct 2003, Seattle. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ubicomp03-poster.pdf

  93. Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Mithun Sheshagiri, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi and Yun Peng, Personal Agents on the Semantic Web, poster paper, Second Int. Semantic Web Conf. (ISWC2003).

  94. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Semantic Web in a Pervasive Context-Aware Architecture, Workshop on Artifical Intelligence in Mobile Systems, the Fifth Annual Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing, 12-15 Oct 2003, Seattle. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ubicomp03-ai.pdf

  95. James Mayfield and Tim Finin, Information retrieval on the Semantic Web: Integrating inference and retrieval, SIGIR Workshop on the Semantic Web, Toronto, 1 August 2003. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/sigir03.pdf

  96. Grit Denker, Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin, Massimo Paoucci, Katia Sycara, Security for DAML Web Serviced: Annotation and Matchmaking, Second Int. Semantic Web Conf. (ISWC2003), Sanibel Island FL, October 2003. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/iswc03a.pdf

  97. Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, A Policy Based Approach to Security for the Semantic Web, Second Int. Semantic Web Conf. (ISWC2003), Sanibel Island FL, October 2003. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/iswc03b.pdf

  98. Li Ding, Lina Zhou, Tim Finin, Trust Based Knowledge Outsourcing for Semantic Web Agents, 2003 IEEE/WIC Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence (WI 2003), October 2003, Beijing. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/wi03.pdf

  99. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Using OWL in a Pervasive Computing Broker, Workshop on Ontologies in Open Agent Systems, AAMAS 2003. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aamas03a.pdf

  100. 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 5th Int. Conf. On Electronic Commerce: Technologies, Pittsburg, 1-3 October 2003.

  101. Olga Ratsimor, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha, eVibe: A Framework for Hierarchical Marketing in Mobile Peer-To-Peer Environments, Fifth Int. Conf. On Electronic Commerce: Technologies, Pittsburg, 1-3 October 2003.

  102. On Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin and Yelena Yesha, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TDKE), v16, n5, pp. 621-34, May 2004. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/31/

  103. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aamas03b.pdf

  104. 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, 1-5 September 2003.

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

  106. Harry Chen, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, An ontology for a context aware pervasive computing environment, IJCAI workshop on ontologies and distributed systems, IJCAI'03, August, 2003, Acapulco MX. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ijcai03-ont.pdf

  107. Jeffrey Undercoffer, John Pinkston, Anupam Joshi and Timothy Finin, A Target-Centric Ontology for Intrusion Detection, IJCAI Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems, IJCAI'03, August, 2003, Acapulco MX. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ijcai03ontologyWorkshop.pdf

  108. 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 August, 2003, Acuulco MX. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/tagaijcaidraft.pdf

  109. Li Ding, Tim Finin, Yongmei Shi, Youyong Zou, Zhongli Ding and Rong Pan, Strategies and heuristics used by the UMBCTAC agent in the Third Trading Agent Competition, Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, held in conjunction with the Eighteenth Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, 11 August, 2003, Acuulco MX. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ijcai03-umbctac.pdf

  110. Amit Choudhri, Lalana Kagal, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin, Yelena Yesha, PatientService : Electronic Patient Record Redaction and Delivery in Pervasive Environments, Fifth Int. Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry (Healthcom 2003), Santa Monica, June 2003. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/chaudhri03.pdf

  111. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/icaps03.pdf

  112. 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 Symposium, Nice, April 2003.

  113. Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, A Policy Language for Pervasive Systems, Fourth IEEE Int. Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, Lake Como, 4-6 June, 2003. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/policy03.pdf

  114. 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, 23-26 March 2003. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/numi03.pdf

  115. William Krueger, Jonathan Nilsson, Tim Oates and Tim Finin, Automatically Generated DAML Markup for Semistructured Documents, AAAI Spring Symposium 2003 on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM), 24-26 March, 2003, Palo Alto, California. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/AAAISS03.pdf

  116. 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. http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-73/

    2002

  117. 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. http://www.worldscinet.com/111/11/1103n04/S021884300200056X.html

  118. Dipanjan Chakraborty, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, 4th IEEE Conf. on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN), IEEE Press, Stockholm, September 2002. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/132/

  119. 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. http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-66/

  120. Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Agents, Trust and Information Access on the Semantic Web, SIGMOD Record, v31, n4, December 2002. http://www.acm.org/sigmod/record/issues/0212/SPECIAL/5.Finin.pdf

  121. 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). http://www.worldscinet.com/ijait/11/1101/S0218213002000757.html

  122. 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, December 2002. (revised version of paper in Proc. CAiSE 2002 Int. Workshop, WES 2002, Toronto, Canada, May 27-28, 2002.) http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/papers/2512/25120248.pdf

  123. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/cscw02.pdf

  124. 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 Symposium on Personalized Agents, North Falmouth, Nov 15-17, 2002. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aaaiss03.pdf

  125. 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, November 2002. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/cikm02/cikm02.pdf

  126. 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, November 2002. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ngdm02/ngdm02.pdf

  127. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/kagal01centaurus.pdf

  128. Dipanjan Chakraborty, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin, and Yelena Yesha, A Reactive Service Composition Architecture for Pervasive Computing Environments, Seventh Personal Wireless Communications Conf., October, 2002. http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~dchakr1/cadip2/mypapers/PWC2002/pwc2002.ps

  129. 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, Second ACM Int. Workshop on Mobile Commerce, in conjunction with Mobicom 2002, Sep 28, 2002, Atlanta GA. http://research.ebiquity.org/docrepos/2002/paper/AlliaMC2002.ps

  130. Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Developing Secure Agent Systems Using Delegation Based Trust Management, Second 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/semas02/semas02/semas02.pdf

  131. 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. http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~lkagal1/papers/security-arch-ghc.pdf

  132. 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. http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~lkagal1/papers/centaurus.pdf

  133. Dipanjan Chakraborty, Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha, Middleware for Mobile Information Access, Fifth Int. Workshop Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems, September 2-6, 2002 Aix-en-Provence, France. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/middleware02.pdf

  134. 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.

  135. Sasikanth Avancha, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Enhanced Service Discovery in Bluetooth, IEEE Computer, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp 96-99, June 2002. http://dlib.computer.org/co/books/co2002/pdf/r6096.pdf

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

  137. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/agentcities02a/

  138. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/agentcities02b/

  139. 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, http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ubiagents02a/

  140. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ubiagents02b/

  141. 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, First Int. Semantic Web Conf. (ISWC2002), 14 June 2002, Sardinia. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/iscw02/

  142. 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.

  143. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/wsebt02/

  144. 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, January/February 2002, pp 40-47. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ieeeis02/ .

  145. 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), January 24-25, 2002. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/nsfcamm.pdf.

    2001

  146. Harry Chen, Sovrin Tolia, Craig Sayers, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi. "Creating Context-Aware Software Agents." Paper, First GSFC/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, 26-28 September 2001. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/hcwrac01/hcwrac01.pdf

  147. Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Lalana Kagal, Olga Ratsimore, Vlad Korolev and Harry Chen, Information Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices, Fifth Int. Workshop Cooperative Information Agents, September 6-8, 2001 Modena, Italy. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/cia01/

  148. Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Moving from Security to Distributed Trust in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, IEEE Computer, December 2001. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ieee01/

  149. Sasikanth Avancha, Vladimir Korolev, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin, Transport Protocols in Wireless Networks, Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, October 2001, Scottsdale, Arizona. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/107/

  150. 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 October 2001.

  151. Xiaocheng Luan, Yun Peng and Timothy Finin, Agent Consumer Reports: of the Agents, by the Agents and for the Agents, Proc. Second Asia-Pacific Conf. on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001), Maebashi City, Japan, October 23-26, 2001. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/iat2001/

  152. Olga Ratsimore, Vladimir Korolev, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, Agents2Go: an infrastructure for location-Dependent Service Discovery in the mobile electronic commerce environment, First ACM Mobile Commerce Workshop, July 21, 2001, Rome. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/amcw01/

  153. 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. First Int. Semantic Web Workshop - Infrastructure and Applications for the Semantic Web, pp. 477-494, July, 2001, Stanford. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/swws01/

  154. 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. http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-52/

  155. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/esaw01/

  156. 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, August, 2001. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ijcai01/

  157. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/nimas01/

  158. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/centaurus/

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

    2000

  160. 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.

  161. 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-Verlag, Lecture Notes in AI, 2000. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ijcai99s.pdf

  162. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/drafts/aclac.pdf

  163. Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin, Benjamin Grosof and Yun Peng, Agent Communication Languages, in Handbook of Agent Technology, JeffB radshaw, ed., MIT/AAAI Press, 2000. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/drafts/notyet.pdf

  164. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, History, State of the Art and Challenges for Agent Communication Languages, Informatik/Informatique, January 2000, Swiss Federation of Information Processing Societies. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/Labrou-Finin99swiss.pdf

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

    1990 - 1999

  166. 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, November, 1999. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/cikm99.pdf

  167. Steven Quirolgico, Kip Canfield and Tim Finin, Communicating neural network knowledge between agents in a simulated arial reconnaissance system, First Int. Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications, Palm Springs, October 3-6, 1999. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/asa99q.pdf

  168. 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'', First Int. Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications, Palm Springs, October 3-6, 1999. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/asa99.pdf

  169. Tim Finin and Benjamin Grosof (eds), Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce, AAAI Technical Report WS-99-01 (134 pp.), ISBN 1-57735-085-5. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aiec99.html

  170. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aiec99.pdf

  171. 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-August 3, 1999, Vol VII, 415-421. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/isas99.pdf

  172. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aiec99.pdf

  173. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Experiments on using Yahoo! categories to describe documents, IJCAI99 Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration, July 31, 1999, Stockhold, Sweden. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/LabrouFinin-ijcai99-IIIworkshop-final.pdf

  174. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/agents99cp-final-preprint.pdf

  175. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/agents99-supply-chain.pdf

  176. 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.

  177. 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, January 5-8, 1999, Maui, Hawaii. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/hicss99.pdf

  178. Yannis Labrou, Tim Finin and Yun Peng, "The current landscape of Agent Communication Languages", Intelligent Systems, v14, n2, March/April 1999, IEEE Computer Society. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ieee99.pdf

  179. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/tochi99.ps

  180. Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Yannis Labrou, Bill Chu, J.Long, William Tolone and Akram Boughannam, ``A Multi-Agent System for Enterprise Integration'', Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, 1998.http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aai98.pdf

  181. 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-??) http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aaai98agents.pdf

  182. 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''). http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/IEEECommDraft.pdf

  183. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/agile98.pdf

  184. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/icam.pdf

  185. 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, Vol 1, number 2, pages 221-234, 1998.

  186. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aa98-security.pdf

  187. Y. Peng, T. Finin, Y. Labrou, B. Chu, B. Tolone and J. Long, ``A multi-agent system for enterprise integration'' Third Int. Conf. and Exhibition on The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology, London, March 1998. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/paam98.pdf

  188. 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-Verlag, 1998. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aa98-security.pdf

  189. 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.

  190. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Towards a standard for an Agent 18Communication Language, AAAI Fall 1997 Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, November 8-10th, 1997, MIT, Cambridge MA. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/fss97.pdf

  191. Mike Grasso, David Ebert and Tim Finin, Acceptance of a Speech Interface for Biomedical Data Collection, 1997 AMIA Annual Fall Symposium (SCAMC), 739-743. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/grasso97a.ps

  192. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Semantics for an Agent Communication Language, the Fourth Int. Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, Providence RI, July, 1997. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/atal97.pdf

  193. R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Jeegar Lakhani, Ethan Miller, Charles Nicholas and Ian Soboroff, Developing communicating software agents in Tcl, the Fourth Int. Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, Providence RI, July, 1997. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/atal97b.pdf

  194. 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). http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ijcai97.ps

  195. 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.

  196. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/tcltk97.ps

  197. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language, Proc. 15th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97), August, 1997. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ijcai97.ps

  198. 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). http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/kqml-acl.ps

  199. Mike Grasso and Tim Finin, Task Integration in Multimodal Speech Recognition Environments, ACM Crossroads, 3(3):19-22, Spring, 1997. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/grasso97b.ps

  200. 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. Symposium of Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, Boston, November 1996. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/spie96.ps

  201. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/arpi.pdf

  202. 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-Verlag, 1996. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/kqml-eval.ps

  203. 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, December 1995. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/iia95a.ps

  204. 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, December 1995. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/ans95.ps

  205. James Mayfield, Tim Finin, William MacCartney, Chetan Shah and Rajkumar Narayanaswamy, Cycic Friends Network, Proc. ACM CIKM Intelligent Information Agents Workshop, Baltimore, December 1995. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/cfn95.ps

  206. 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 August 1995.

  207. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/caia95.pdf

  208. James Mayfield, Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages, in the Proc. 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium on Information Gathering in Distributed Environments, March 1995. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/sss.ps

  209. 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.http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/kbks.pdf

  210. 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.

  211. Tim Finin, Richard Fritzson, Don McKay and Robin McEntire, ``The KQML Information and Knowledge Exchange Protocol'', Proc. Third Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-94), Gaithersburg, MD, November 1994.

  212. Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin, ``A semantics approach for KQML - a general purpose communication language for software agents''. Proc. Third Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-94), Gaithersburg, MD, November 1994. .http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/cikm94.pdf

  213. Martha Palmer, Rebecca Passonneau, Carl Weir and Tim Finin, The Kernel Natural Language Processing System, Artificial Intelligence, v63, Issue (1-2), pp 17-68, October 1993. .http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/kernel.ps

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

  215. 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, December, 1993. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/kbks.pdf

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

  217. Neches, R, et. al, An Overview of the Darpa Knowledge Sharing Effort, Principles Of Knowledge Representation And Reasoning: Proc. Third Int. Conf. (KR92), Bernhard Nebel, Charles Rich and William Swartout, eds. Morgan Kaufman, 1992. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/kr92-status-report.pdf

  218. Jon Pastor, Don Mckay and Tim Finin, View-Concepts: Knowledge-Based Access to Databases, First Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, Baltimore, November 1992.

  219. Tim Finin, Rich Fritzson and Don McKay, "A Language and Protocol to Support Intelligent Agent Interoperability", Fourth National Symposium on Concurrent Engineering, CE & CALS Conf., Washington, DC June 1-4, 1992. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/cecals.pdf

  220. 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.

  221. Jon Pastor, Don Mckay and Tim Finin, View-Concepts: Knowledge-Based Access to Databases, Loom Users Workshop, Marina Del Rey, California, March 1992. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/view-concepts-3.ps

  222. 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.

  223. 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, October 27, 1991, Washington, D.C.

  224. 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.

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

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

  227. Don McKay, Tim Finin and Anthony O'Hare, The Intelligent Database Interface, Proc. 1990 National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90), Boston, August, 1990. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/AAAI90-102.pdf

  228. 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, August, 1990. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/AAAI90-146.pdf

  229. 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, ACM Frontier Series, Addison-Wesley, 1990.

  230. 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.

  231. Martha Palmer and Tim Finin, Report on the Workshop on the Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems, Computational Linguistics, 16:3, pp 175-181, September, 1990. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/acl90.pdf

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

  233. 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.

  234. 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.

  235. Matuszek, David and Tim Finin, ``Human-Machine Interface Tools - An Overview and Underview'', in Proc. Third Unisys Software Engineering Symposium, January 1990.

  236. 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.

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

  238. 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.

    1980-1989

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

  240. 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.

  241. 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.

  242. 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.

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

  244. 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.

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

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

  247. 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 Symposium, Reston, Va, October 4-6, 1989.

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

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

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

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

  252. Kass, Robert and Tim Finin, Acquiring User Models for Tailoring Explanations, (extended abstract), AAAI Workshop on Explanations, August 1988, Seattle WA.

  253. 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).

  254. 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.

  255. 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.

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

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

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

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

  260. Finin, Tim and John Keenan, Developing an Expert System for Hazardous Waste Remediation, Proc. Third Int. Symposium on Industrial Resource Management, New York, February, 1987.

  261. 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.

  262. Kass, Robert, Ron Katrial and Tim Finin, Breaking the Primitive Concept Barrier, Proc. IEEE Third Annual Conf. on AI Applications, Orlando, FL, February, 1987.

  263. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/AAAI87-053.pdf

  264. 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 (IJCAI-87), August, 1987.

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

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

  267. Finin, Tim, ``Understanding Frame Languages'', AI Expert, November, 1986.

  268. Finin, Tim, ``Implementing PFL'', AI Expert, December, 1986.

  269. 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, 1986.

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

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

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

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

  274. Aravind Joshi. Tim Finin, Dale Miller, Lokendra Shastri and Bonnie Webber, Research in natural language processing, Human Language Technology Conference, Proceedings of the workshop on Strategic computing: natural language, Marina del Rey, pp 30-36, MAy 1986. http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1077146

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

  276. 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.

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

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

  279. Finin, Tim, John McAdams and Pam Kleinosky, FOREST - An Expert System for Automatic Test Equipment, Proc. First Conf. on Artificial Intelligence Applications (IEEE), Denver, Colorado, December 1984.

  280. Finin, Tim and David Silverman, Interactive Classification of Conceptual Knowledge, Proc. First Int. Workshop on Expert Database Systems, October 1984.

  281. 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, December 1984.

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

  283. 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.

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

  285. Finin, Tim, Providing Help and Advice in Task Oriented Systems, Proc. Eighth Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-83), 1983.

  286. Tom Kehler, Avron Barr, Tim Finin, Peter Friedland, Mike Genesereth, Jim Miller, Mark Miller, Elliot Soloway and Harry Tennan, Intelligent Assistance for Complex Systems, Proceedings of the ACM '82 conference, ACM Press, 1982. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=809775

  287. Shrager, Jeff and Tim Finin, An Expert System that Volunteers Advice, Proc. Second Annual National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-82), 1982. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/AAAI82-080.pdf

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

  289. Finin, Tim, The Semantic Interpretation of Nominal Compounds, in Proc. First Annual National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-80), 1980. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/AAAI80-088.pdf

    1977-1979

  290. Finin, Tim, Brad Goodman and Harry Tennant, JETS: Achieving Completeness Through Coverage and Closure, Proc. Sixth Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-79), 1979.

  291. Finin, Tim and George Hadden, Augmenting ATNs, Proc. Fifth Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-77), 1977.

Other publications and collections

  • Proc. Policy Management for the Web workshop, Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin and James A. Hendler, May 10, 2005. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/221/

  • Tim Finin: Translating KL-ONE from Interlisp to FranzLisp, in R. Brachman, J. Schmolze et al. (Eds.), Proc. Second (1981) KL-ONE Workshop, BBN Report No. 4842, BBN Laboratories, Cambridge MA, pp 104-112, June 1982. Also published as FLAIR Report 4, Schlumberger, Palo Alto Research, 1982.

  • Tim Finin, The semantic interpretation of compound nominals, PhD dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1980. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/8026491

  • Timothy W. Finin, Casting the Rendezvous Analyzer Rules into Augmented Transition Network Form, IBM Research Report RJ 2146, November 1978, IBM Research Laboratory, 5600 Cottle Road, San Jose, California 95193

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

  • Tim Finin, Finding the Skeleton of a Brick, AIM-287, MIT AI Lab, March 1973. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/AIM-287.pdf

  • Tracking Wires on Printed Circuit Boards, W.P. 52, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, M.I.T., 1974.

  • A Vision Potpourri, Working Paper 26, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, M.I.T., 1972.

  • Two Problems in Analyzing Scenes, Working Paper 12, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, M.I.T., 1971.

Funded research contracts, grants and gifts

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

Awarded

University of Maryland Baltimore County

  1. A Framework for Managing the Assured Information Sharing Lifecycle, Multi-disciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), AFOSR, 2008-11.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  11. Trauma Pod middleware, DARPA (via University of Maryland Medical System), 2005-2007. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/v2.1/project/html/id/63/

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

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

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

  15. ITR: Science on the Semantic Web: Prototypes in Bioinformatics, PI, NSF (0326460), 2003-8, $2.35M. http://spire.umbc.edu/

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

  17. Trust and security for the Semantic Web, PI, NSF, $240K, 2003-2006. http://umbc.edu/~finin/research/nsfdas/

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

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

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

  21. 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. http://umbc.edu/~finin/research/nsfdmpe/

  22. 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 http://umbc.edu/~finin/research/nsfugrid/

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

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

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

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

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

  28. National Science Foundation, Dynamic Negotiation Agents in Mobile Computing, $174,000, (with Anumpam Joshi and Yelena Yesha, Co-PIs), 2000-2003. http://umbc.edu/~finin/research/nsfdnamc/

  29. DAML Tools for supporting Intelligent Information Annotation, Sharing and Retrieval, DARPA, $2,018,000, 2000-2005. http://daml.umbc.edu/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  46. 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 over two years, 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.

Professional service

Professional service

Awards and Honors

  • IBM Faculty Development Award (1983-84)

  • Appointment as Fellow, Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (1997)

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, 2005-. link

  • Editorial board, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence, 2005-.

  • Editorial board, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, World Scientific.

  • Editorial board, International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

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

  • Advisory board, International Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, 1994- present.

Past Editorial Activities

  • 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, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol 11 number 1, March 2002.

  • Associate Editor, Artificial Intelligence Review (Blackwell Scientific Publishing), 1988 - 1991.

  • 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.

  • Editorial Board, Artificial Intelligence Review (Blackwell Scientific Publishing), 1988 - 1993..

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

  • 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

  • General chair, International Semantic Web Conference, Karlsruhe DE, October 2008.

  • Organizer, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Seattle, 30 March - 2 April 2008.

  • 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 Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston (AAAI-07) , July 2007.

  • Co-Chair, Artificial Intelligence and the Web, a special technical paper track at the 21st National Conference 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. http://www.swuma.org/

  • Organizer, Workshop on Models of Trust for the Web (MTW'06), 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006), 22 May 2006, Edinburgh. http://www.l3s.de/~olmedilla/events/MTW06Workshop.html

  • Organizer, Semantic Web and Policy Workshop, 4th International Semantic Web Conference, 6-10 November 2005, Galway, Ireland http://www.cs.umbc.edu/swpw/

  • Organizer, Policy Management for the Web Workshop, 14th International World Wide Web Conference Tuesday 10 May 2005, Chiba, Japan. http://www.csee.umbc.edu/pm4w/

  • Organizing committee, Workshop on Ambient Intelligence - Agents for Ubiquitous Environments, held in conjunction with the 2005 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Utrecht, July 2005. http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/~mellouli/ubiagents04/

  • Program co-chair, Mobiquitous 2004, The First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services August 22-25, 2004, Boston. http://mobiquitous.org/

  • Organizing committee, Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents, held in conjunction with the 2004 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, New York, July 2004. http://autonomousagents.org/ubiagents/2004/

  • Organizing committee, Workshop on Web-services and Agent-based Engineering, held in conjunction with the 2004 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, New York, July 2004. http://www.agentus.com/WSABE2004/

  • Organizer, Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on embedded, wearable, and mobile devices, held in conjunction with the 2002 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Bologna, July 2002. http://autonomousagents.org/ubiagents/2002/

  • Organizer, Workshop on Ontologies for Agent Systems, held in conjunction with the 2002 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Bologna, July 2002.

  • Organizer, Workshop on Agentcities: Research in Large Scale Open Agent Environments, held in conjunction with the 2002 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Bologna, July 2002.

  • Track chair, Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), Seattle, WA, August 2001.

  • Organizer, Knowledge Based Electronic Markets, AAAI Workshop, July 2000. http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kbem/

  • Organizer, Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce, AAAI Workshop, July 1999. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/aiec99.html

  • Organizer, CRA Effective Teaching Workshop, Madison, July 1998.

  • Program co-chair, ACM Autonomous Agents Conference, May 1998.

  • Organizer, Second CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Gaithersburg MD, December, 1995.

  • Associate Chair, AAAI Symposium Series, 1995-8.

  • Co-founder and Steering Committee, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 1991 - present.

  • Steering Committee, IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications, 1990-94.

  • Organizer, CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, Gaithersburg MD, December, 1994.

  • Co-General Chair, Second ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November, 1993, Washington, DC.

  • Co-General Chair, First International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November, 1992, Baltimore, MD.

  • General chair, Eighth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications, Monterey, March, 1992.

  • Program Chair, Seventh IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, Miami, 1991.

  • Co-Organizer, AAAI Workshop on Knowledge Base Management Systems, Boston, August, 1990.

Program committee member for

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

  • Vice chair, The 6th International Semantic Web Conference, November 2007.

  • Third International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, Banff, 8 May 2007. http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/2007/cfp.html

  • senior program committee, 2007 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 14-18 May 2007, Honolulu, Hawai'i.

  • IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy 2007), 13-15, June 2007 Bologna, Italy. http://www.policy-workshop.org/

  • First International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 26-28 March 2007, Boulder CO. http://www.icwsm.org/.

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

  • senior program committee, The 5th International Semantic Web Conference, 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. http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/swdb06/

  • First on-Line conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'05): Approaches to Advanced Information Systems, November 2005. http://www.metadata-semantics.org

  • ISWC-2005 Workshop on Semantic Network Analysis, International Semantic Web Conference, 7 November 2005, Galway, Ireland. http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/sna2005/

  • 6th VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES-05), in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2005), 2-3 September 2005, Trondheim, Norway.

  • International Workshop on Agents, Web Services, and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe), in conjunction with the OnTheMove federated conferences, Cyprus, 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2005. http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/awesome2005cfp.html.

  • Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-05), Paris, France, July 5-8, 2005. http://www.context-05.org/

  • The Tenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2006), June 2006, Manchester, UK http://www.kr.org/KR2006

  • The International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE'05), Cyprus, Oct 31-Nov 4, 2005. http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/odbase2005cfp.html

  • First International Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web, 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, Arlington VA, 3-6 November, 2005 http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/AAAI-FSS05/

  • Mobiquitous 2005, The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, July 17-21, 2005, San Diego, California. http://mobiquitous.org/

  • Semantic Web Services: Towards Dynamic Business Integration held at the 14th International World Wide Web Conference, Chiba, Japan Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 myurlhttp://www.ai.sri.com/WWW-SWS2005

  • Second IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability, Philadelphia, August 30-31, 2005. http://www.cs.drexel.edu/mass2005/

  • Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'05), July 5-8 2005, Paris.

  • Second International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases (SWDB 2004), August 29-30, 2004 in Toronto, Canada.

  • Semantic Web Services: Preparing to Meet the World of Business Applications, A workshop held at ISWC 2004, November 8th, 2004, Hiroshima, Japan

  • The 1st International Symposium on "Web Intelligence and Security", 8th Joint Conference on Information Science, July 20-26, 2005, Salt Lake City.

  • Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb), held in conjunction with VLDB 2004, Toronto, 29 August 2004. http://cips.eas.asu.edu/iiweb.htm.

  • Senior Program Committee, Third International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), Hiroshima, Japan, November 7-11, 2004. http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/.

  • 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004), September 20-24, 2004, Beijing. http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04/

  • 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004), September 20-24, 2004, Beijing. http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04/.

  • 2004 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2004), September 15-18, 2004. http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2004/

  • The 3nd International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE) Larnaca, Cyprus, 25-29 Oct, 2004. http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/

  • The Sixth International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS04), June and July 2004, http://www.aois.org.

  • International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (IWUC 2004), April 13-14, 2004 - Porto, Portugal. http://www.iceis.org/workshops/iwuc/iwuc2004-cfp.html

  • International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC'04), 25-27 October, Delft, The Netherlands. http://www.icec04.net/

  • The Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'04) Oct 25-29, 2004. http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/

  • Senior Program Committee, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), August, 2004. http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2004/

  • Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing, held in conjunction with ICEIS 2004, Porto, Portugal, 2004. http://www.iceis.org

  • The 17th International FLAIRS Conference, Special Track on AI and the Web, Miami Beach FL, 17-19 May 2004. http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~heflin/conf/flairs/

  • First IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability, Philadelphia, August 30-31, 2004. http://www.cs.drexel.edu/mass2004/

  • AAMAS Workshop on Web Services and Agent-Based Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, July 2003. http://agentus.com/WSABE2003/

  • The Ninth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2004), June 2-5, 2004, in Whistler Resort, Canada. http://research.it.uts.edu.au/magic/KR2004/

  • 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS2004), March 2004, Tokyo.

  • Third International Workshop on Agent-based Approaches for B2B Electronic Commerce, 30 September 2003, in conjunction with the International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2003), Pittsburgh.

  • Fifth International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2003), http://www.aois.org

  • 10th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (COOPIS 2003), November 3-7, 2003, Sicily. http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/coopis/2003/

  • Workshop on Web Services and Agent-Based Engineering (WSABE), held in conjunction with the the The Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2003), Melbourne, July 2003.

  • Workshop on Agent Languages and Conversation Policies 2003, http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mph/ACL2003, held in conjunction with the the The Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2003), Melbourne, July 2003.

  • 5th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC'03), http://www.icec03.org/, Pittsburgh 1-3 Oct, 2003.

  • International Semantic Web Conference 2003 (ISWC'03), Sanibel Island, Forida, October 2003.

  • First International Workshop on Agent Standards in Theory and Practice (ASTAP-02), September 2002. http://www.tzi.de/astap02/

  • Workshop on Logic and Communication in Multi-Agent Systems, to be held during ECALP 2003, Eindhoven, http://www.win.tue.nl/icalp2003/.

  • Workshop on Agent communication languages and conversation policies, held in conjunction with the 2002 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Bologna, July 2002.

  • Workshop on Agent communication languages and conversation policies, held in conjunction with the 2002 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Bologna, July 2002.

  • Workshop on Agent oriented Information Systems, policies, held in conjunction with the 2002 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Bologna, July 2002.

  • Sixth International Workshop CIA-2002 on Cooperative Information Agents - Intelligent Agents for the Internet and Web, September, 2002.

  • Eighth International Conference on Principles of Knowledged Representation and Reasoning (KR2002), April 202, Toulouse, Franc

  • Third International Symposium on Electronic Commerce (ISEC-02) North Carolina, USA, 18-19 October, 2002.

  • Workshop on Ontologies for multi-agent systems, in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Siguenza (Spain), 1-4 October 2002

  • Second workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW 2002), September 17-18, Madrid.

  • Fourth International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2002), May 27-28, 2002 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.aois.org

  • CollECTeR (Europe) Conference on Electronic Commerce, April 2002; Toulouse.

  • 10th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (COOPIS 2002), Irvine, California, October 30 - November 1st, 2002. http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/coopis/2002/cfp.html

  • Senior Program Committee, ACM Autonomous Agents Conference, Bologna, June, 2002.

  • International Semantic Web Conference 2002 (ISWC'02), Sardinia, Italy, June, 2002.

  • Sixth International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, September, 2002 Madrid. http://www.dfki.de/ klusch/cia2002.html

  • Eighth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2002), April 2002; Toulouse. http://www.kr.org/kr/kr02/

  • Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2001), www.aois.org, Seattle, 2001.

  • Senior Program Committee