Anonymization of nominal data based on semantic marginality

Information Sciences

Volumn 242, Issue , 2013, Pages 35-48

  Domingo Ferrer, Josep ^a   Sánchez, David ^a   Rufian Torrell, Guillem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anonymization; Data privacy; Data semantics; Medical ontologies; Statistical disclosure control

Indexed keywords

ANONYMIZATION; COVARIANCE FUNCTION; DATA SEMANTICS; EVALUATION RESULTS; MEDICAL ONTOLOGY; NOMINAL ATTRIBUTES; NUMERICAL ATTRIBUTES; STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE CONTROL;

DATA PRIVACY; DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAPPING; SEMANTICS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84878113523     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2013.04.021     Document Type: Article

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