Publications

Orobosa Ekhator, Dylan Conklin, Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus (2026). Towards Fast Detection of Suspicious Bluetooth Trackers using Anomaly Detection. 19th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec).

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Christian Badolato, Nathan Samson, Houssam Hajj Hassan, Chih-Kai Huang, Georgios Bouloukakis, Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus (2026). PSMark: A Distributed IoT Benchmark for Publish/Subscribe Under Domain-Based Workloads. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom).

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Christian Badolato, Nathan Samson, Houssam Hajj Hassan, Chih-Kai Huang, Georgios Bouloukakis, Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus (2026). Artifact: PSMark: A Distributed IoT Benchmark for Publish/Subscribe Under Domain-Based Workloads. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops).

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Ikechukwu Oranekwu, Lavanya Elluri, Roberto Yus, Anantaa Kotal (2026). Scalable Automation for IoT CyberSecurity Compliance: Ontology-Driven Reasoning for Real-Time Assessment. Computers & Security.

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Nikolaos Papadakis, Athanasios Tsirikas, Fotios Fouskas, Krish Chatterjie, Christian Badolato, Gregory Blanc, Roberto Yus, Kostas Magoutis, Georgios Bouloukakis (2025). A Context-Aware Benchmarking Approach for Scenario-Based Evaluation of Smart Devices. 15th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2025).

Jun Ma, Roberto Yus, Georgios Bouloukakis (2025). DigiGuide: A DT-based Occupant Guiding System for Optimizing Comfort and Energy Consumption. IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp).

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Jun Ma, Aziz Boubaker, Sabrine Azaiez, Roberto Yus, Georgios Bouloukakis (2025). DEMO: Web-CozyBench - A Web-Based Platform to Benchmark Thermal Comfort Provision using Digital Twins. IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp).

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Saisricharan Malkireddy, Sumedh Kane, Sourimitra Medepalli, Satvik Racharla, Bharg Barot, Christian Badolato, Roberto Yus (2025). LOADS: LiDAR-based Privacy-Preserving Queue Monitoring and Analysis. 23rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom).

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Dylan Conklin, Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus (2025). BL(u)E CRAB: A User-Centric Framework for Identifying Suspicious Bluetooth Trackers. 23rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom).

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Christian Badolato, Kaur Kullman, Nikolaos Papadakis, Manav Bhatt, Georgios Bouloukakis, Don Engel, Roberto Yus (2025). Your Smart Home Exchanged 3M Messages: Defining and Analyzing Smart Device Passive Mode. International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom). Best Artifact Award.

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Aamir Hamid, Hemanth Reddy Samidi, Primal Pappachan, Tim Finin, Roberto Yus (2024). GenAIPABench: A Benchmark for Generative AI-based Privacy Assistants. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

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Jun Ma, Dimitrije Panic, Roberto Yus, Georgios Bouloukakis (2024). Co-zyBench: Using Co-Simulation and Digital Twins to Benchmark Thermal Comfort Provision in Smart Buildings. International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom).

Jun Ma, Georgios Bouloukakis, Ajay Kattepur, Roberto Yus, Denis Conan (2023). DEMSA: a DT-enabled Middleware for Self-adaptive Smart Spaces. 1st International Workshop on Middleware for Digital Twin (Midd4DT) @ the 24th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference.

Andrew Chio, Daokun Jiang, Peeyush Gupta, Georgios Bouloukakis, Roberto Yus, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (2023). SmartSPEC: A framework to generate customizable, semantics-based smart space datasets. Pervasive and Mobile Computing.

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Aamir Hamid, Hemanth Reddy Samidi, Tim Finin, Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus (2023). PrivacyLens: A Framework to Collect and Analyze the Landscape of Past, Present, and Future Smart Device Privacy Policies. arXiv.

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Satoshi Kai, Takao Kondo, Naghmeh Karimi, Konstantinos Mersinas, Marc Sel, Roberto Yus, Satoru Tezuka (2023). International Mutual Recognition: A Description of Trust Services in US, UK, EU and JP and the Testbed “Hakoniwa”. 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT).

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Maksim E. Eren, Manish Bhattarai, Nicholas Solovyev, Luke E. Richards, Roberto Yus, Charles Nicholas, Boian S. Alexandrov (2022). One-Shot Federated Group Collaborative Filtering. 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA).

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Peeyush Gupta, Sharad Mehrotra, Shantanu Sharma, Roberto Yus, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (2022). Sentaur: Sensor Observable Data Model for Smart Spaces. 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).

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Roberto Yus, Georgios Bouloukakis, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (2022). The SemIoTic Ecosystem: A Semantic Bridge between IoT Devices and Smart Spaces. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.

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Andrew Chio, Daokun Jiang, Peeyush Gupta, Georgios Bouloukakis, Roberto Yus, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (2022). SmartSPEC: Customizable Smart Space Datasets via Event-Driven Simulations. International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom). Best Paper Award.

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Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Peeyush Gupta, Sharad Mehrotra, Roberto Yus, Yasser Altowim (2022). JENNER: Just-in-time Enrichment in Query Processing. Proc. VLDB Endow.

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Yiming Lin, Daokun Jiang, Roberto Yus, Georgios Bouloukakis, Andrew Chio, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (2021). LOCATER: Cleaning WiFi Connectivity Datasets for Semantic Localization. Proc. VLDB Endow.

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Michael August, Christopher Davison, Mamadou H. Diallo, Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Peeyush Gupta, Christopher T. Graves, Shanshan Han, Michael Holstrom, Pramod Khargonekar, Megan Kline, Sharad Mehrotra, Shantanu Sharma, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Guoxi Wang, Roberto Yus (2020). A Privacy-Enabled Platform for COVID-19 Applications. 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2020).

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Dave Archer, Michael August, Georgios Bouloukakis, Christopher Davison, Mamadou H Diallo, Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Christopher T Graves, Michael Hay, Xi He, Peeter Laud, Steve Lu, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Sharad Mehrotra, Gerome Miklau, Alisa Pankova, Shantanu Sharma, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Guoxi Wang, Roberto Yus (2020). Transitioning from testbeds to ships: an experience study in deploying the TIPPERS Internet of Things platform to the US Navy. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology.

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Peeyush Gupta, Michael J. Carey, Sharad Mehrotra, Roberto Yus (2020). SmartBench: A Benchmark For Data Management In Smart Spaces. Proc. VLDB Endow.

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Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus, Sharad Mehrotra, Johann-Christoph Freytag (2020). Sieve: A Middleware Approach to Scalable Access Control for Database Management Systems. Proc. VLDB Endow.

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Roberto Yus, Carlos Bobed, Eduardo Mena (2020). A Knowledge-Based Approach to Enhance Provision of Location-Based Services in Wireless Environments. IEEE Access.

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Roberto Yus, Georgios Bouloukakis, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (2019). Abstracting Interactions with IoT Devices Towards a Semantic Vision of Smart Spaces. 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (Buildsys).

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Sumaya Almanee, Georgios Bouloukakis, Daokun Jiang, Sameera Ghayyur, Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Peeyush Gupta, Yiming Lin, Sharad Mehrotra, Primal Pappachan, Eun-Jeong Shin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Guoxi Wang, Roberto Yus (2019). SemIoTic: Bridging the Semantic Gap in IoT Spaces. 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (Buildsys).

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Sameera Ghayyur, Yan Chen, Roberto Yus, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Michael Hay, Gerome Miklau, Sharad Mehrotra (2018). IoT-Detective: Analyzing IoT Data Under Differential Privacy. 2018 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2018).

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Mamadou H. Diallo, Nisha Panwar, Roberto Yus, Sharad Mehrotra (2018). Trustworthy Privacy Policy Translation in Untrusted IoT Environments. 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS 2018).

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Eun-Jeong Shin, Roberto Yus, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (2017). Exploring fairness in participatory thermal comfort control in smart buildings. 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2017).

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Primal Pappachan, Martin Degeling, Roberto Yus, Anupam Das, Sruti Bhagavatula, William Melicher, Pardis Emami Naeini, Shikun Zhang, Lujo Bauer, Alfred Kobsa, Sharad Mehrotra, Norman M. Sadeh, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (2017). Towards Privacy-Aware Smart Buildings: Capturing, Communicating, and Enforcing Privacy Policies and Preferences. International Workshop on the Internet of Things Computing and Applications (IoTCA 2017) at the 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017).

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Roberto Yus (2016). Semantic Management of Location-Based Services in Wireless Environments. University of Zaragoza.

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Carlos Bobed, Roberto Yus, Fernando Bobillo, Eduardo Mena (2015). Semantic Reasoning on Mobile Devices: Do Androids Dream of Efficient Reasoners?. Journal of Web Semantics.

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Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena, Enrique Solano-Bes (2015). Generic Rules for the Discovery of Subsumption Relationships based on Ontological Contexts. 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2015).

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Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena (2015). Cooperative Network of Mobile Agents to Remotely Process User Information Requests. 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2015).

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Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena (2015). Continuous Processing of Real-Time Multimedia Requests Using Semantic Techniques. 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM 2015).

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Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus, Prajit Kumar Das, Sharad Mehrotra, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi (2015). Mobipedia: Mobile Applications Linked Data. 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015).

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Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena (2015). Mobile Endpoints: Accessing Dynamic Information from Mobile Devices. 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015).

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Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus, Prajit Kumar Das, Sharad Mehrotra, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi (2015). Building a Mobile Applications Knowledge Base for the Linked Data Cloud. 1st International Workshop on Mobile Deployment of Semantic Technologies (MoDeST 2015), co-located with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015).

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Roberto Yus, Primal Pappachan (2015). Are Apps Going Semantic? A Systematic Review of Semantic Mobile Applications. 1st International Workshop on Mobile Deployment of Semantic Technologies (MoDeST 2015), co-located with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015).

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Carlos Bobed, Roberto Yus, Fernando Bobillo, Sergio Ilarri, Jorge Bernad, Eduardo Mena, Raquel Trillo-Lado, Angel Luis Garrido (2015). Chapter 4: Emerging Semantic-Based Applications. Semantic Web: Implications for Technologies and Business Practices.

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Roberto Yus, Fernando Bobillo, Carlos Bobed, Eduardo Mena (2015). The OWL Reasoner Evaluation Goes Mobile. 4th International Workshop on OWL Reasoner Evaluation (ORE 2015).

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Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena, Sergio Ilarri, Arantza Illarramendi, Jorge Bernad (2015). MultiCAMBA: A System for Selecting Camera Views in Live Broadcasting of Sport Events Using a Dynamic 3D Model. Multimedia Tools and Applications.

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Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena (2015). Emergency Management Using SHERLOCK. 13th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2015).

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Roberto Yus, Sergio Ilarri, Eduardo Mena (2015). Real-time Selection of Video Streams for Live TV Broadcasting Based on Query-by-Example Using a 3D Model. Multimedia Tools and Applications.

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Abhay Kashyap, Lushan Han, Roberto Yus, Jennifer Sleeman, Taneeya Satyapanich, Sunil Gandhi, Tim Finin (2015). Robust Semantic Text Similarity Using LSA, Machine Learning, and Linguistic Resources. Language Resources and Evaluation.

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Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena, Sergio Ilarri, Arantza Illarramendi (2014). SHERLOCK: Semantic Management of Location-Based Services in Wireless Environments. Pervasive and Mobile Computing.

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Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena, Sergio Ilarri, Arantza Illarramendi (2014). Flexible Access to Services in Smart Cities: Let SHERLOCK Advise Modern Citizens. ERCIM News.

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Roberto Yus, Primal Pappachan, Prajit Kumar Das, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Eduardo Mena (2014). Semantics for Privacy and Shared Context. 2nd International Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web – Policy and Technology (PrivOn 2014), co-located with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014).

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Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin (2014). Rafiki: A Semantic and Collaborative Approach to Community Health-care in Underserved Areas. 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2014).

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Roberto Yus, Varish Mulwad, Tim Finin, Eduardo Mena (2014). Infoboxer: Using Statistical and Semantic Knowledge to Help Create Wikipedia Infoboxes. 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014).

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Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus, Prajit Kumar Das, Tim Finin, Eduardo Mena, Anupam Joshi (2014). A Semantic Context-Aware Privacy Model for FaceBlock. 2nd International Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web – Policy and Technology (PrivOn 2014), co-located with the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014).

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Abhay Kashyap, Lushan Han, Roberto Yus, Jennifer Sleeman, Taneeya Satyapanich, Sunil Gandhi, Tim Finin (2014). Meerkat Mafia: Multilingual and Cross-Level Semantic Textual Similarity systems. 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014).

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Carlos Bobed, Fernando Bobillo, Roberto Yus, Guillermo Esteban, Eduardo Mena (2014). Android Went Semantic: Time for Evaluation. 3rd International Workshop on OWL Reasoner Evaluation (ORE 2014).

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Roberto Yus, Primal Pappachan, Prajit Kumar Das, Eduardo Mena, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin (2014). FaceBlock: Privacy-Aware Pictures for Google Glass. 12th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2014).

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Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena, Sergio Ilarri, Arantza Illarramendi (2013). SHERLOCK: A System for Location-Based Services in Wireless Environments Using Semantics. 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013).

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Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena, Sergio Ilarri, Arantza Illarramendi (2013). Semantic Management of Moving Objects with SHERLOCK. Workshop COST IC0903 MOVE Final Conference.

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Roberto Yus, Carlos Bobed, Guillermo Esteban, Fernando Bobillo, Eduardo Mena (2013). Android goes Semantic: DL Reasoners on Smartphones. 2nd International Workshop on OWL Reasoner Evaluation (ORE 2013).

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Sergio Ilarri, Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena, Arantza Illarramendi (2012). Semantic-Based Query Processing on Moving Objects. Workshop on Future Research Directions in MOVEment (FRDinMOVEment), COST IC0903 MOVE meeting.

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Sergio Ilarri, Eduardo Mena, Arantza Illarramendi, Roberto Yus, Maider Laka, Gorka Marcos (2012). A Friendly Location-Aware System to Facilitate the Work of Technical Directors When Broadcasting Sport Events. Mobile Information Systems.

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Roberto Yus, David Anton, Eduardo Mena, Sergio Ilarri, Arantza Illarramendi (2011). MultiCAMBA: A System to Assist in the Broadcasting of Sport Events. 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2011).

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Roberto Yus, Eduardo Mena, Jorge Bernad, Sergio Ilarri, Arantza Illarramendi (2011). Location-Aware System Based on a Dynamic {3D} Model to Help in Live Broadcasting of Sport Events. 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM 2011).

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