Semantic microaggregation for the anonymization of query logs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6344 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 127-137

  Erola, Arnau ^a   Castellà Roca, Jordi ^a   Navarro Arribas, Guillermo ^b   Torra, Vicenç ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANONYMIZATION; K-ANONYMITY; MICROAGGREGATES; MICROAGGREGATION; OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECTS; PROTECTION METHODS; QUERY LOGS; RANDOM SUBSETS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SEARCH LOGS; STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE CONTROL; WEB SEARCH LOGS;

DATA PRIVACY;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 78049388666     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15838-4_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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