Effective anonymization of query logs

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1465-1468

  Hong, Yuan ^a   He, Xiaoyun ^a   Vaidya, Jaideep ^a   Adam, Nabil ^a   Atluri, Vijayalakshmi ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Privacy

Indexed keywords

ANONYMIZATION; MICRODATA; PRIVACY BREACHES; PRIVACY MODELS; QUERY LOGS; SEARCH QUERIES;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 74549172518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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