A tree-based approach to preserve the privacy of software engineering data and predictive models

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fu, Yu ^a   Koru, A Güneş ^a   Chen, Zhiyuan ^a   El Emam, Khaled ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DATA PERTURBATION; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PRIVACY CONCERNS; REPRODUCIBLE RESEARCH; RESEARCH RESULTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DATA; TREE-BASED APPROACH;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77953744541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1540438.1540443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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