Universally utility-maximizing privacy mechanisms

SIAM Journal on Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1673-1693

  Ghosh, Arpita ^a   Roughgarden, Tim ^b   Sundararajan, Mukund ^c  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential privacy; Geometric; Utility maximization

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACIES; FEASIBLE REGIONS; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; GEOMETRIC; LINEAR PROGRAMS; LOSS FUNCTIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL MECHANISM; OUTPUT DISTRIBUTION; POTENTIAL USERS; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; PRIVACY MECHANISMS; QUERY RESULTS; RANDOM NOISE; RELEVANT VERTEX; SENSITIVE DATAS; SIDE INFORMATION; STATISTICAL DATABASE; UTILITY MAXIMIZATIONS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; QUERY PROCESSING;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84871605204     PISSN: 00975397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/09076828X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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