Association rule hiding

Verykios, V. S. and Elmagarmid, A. K. and Bertino, E. and Saygın, Yücel and Dasseni, E. (2004) Association rule hiding. IEEE Transactions On Knowledge and Data Engineering, 16 (4). pp. 434-447. ISSN 1041-4347

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Abstract

Large repositories of data contain sensitive information that must be protected against unauthorized access. The protection of the confidentiality of this information has been a long-term goal for the database security research community and for the government statistical agencies. Recent advances in data mining and machine learning algorithms have increased the disclosure risks that one may encounter when releasing data to outside parties. A key problem, and still not sufficiently investigated, is the need to balance the confidentiality of the disclosed data with the legitimate needs of the data users. Every disclosure limitation method affects, in some way, and modifies true data values and relationships. We investigate confidentiality issues of a broad category of rules, the association rules. In particular, we present three strategies and five algorithms for hiding a group of association rules, which is characterized as sensitive. One rule is characterized as sensitive if its disclosure risk is above a certain privacy threshold. Sometimes, sensitive rules should not be disclosed to the public since, among other things, they may be used for inferring sensitive data, or they may provide business competitors with an advantage. We also perform an evaluation study of the hiding algorithms in order to analyze their time complexity and the impact that they have in the original database.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: privacy preserving data mining; association rule mining; sensitive rule hiding
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Depositing User: Yücel Saygın
Date Deposited: 17 Feb 2007 02:00
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 08:06
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/371

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