Handicapping attacker's confidence: An alternative to κ - Anonymization

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 345-368

  Wang, Ke ^a   Fung, Benjamin C M ^a   Yu, Philip S ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Data mining; Data sharing; Privacy protection; Sensitive inference; anonymity

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA SHARING; METADATA; PRIVACY BY DESIGN;

ANONYMIZATION; DATA MINING ALGORITHM; DATA TRANSFORMATION; PERSONAL IDENTITY; PRIVACY PROTECTION; SENSITIVE INFERENCE; SENSITIVE PROPERTIES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 34147125465     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-006-0035-5     Document Type: Article

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