The collection and analysis of data are continuously growing due to the pervasiveness of
computing devices. The analysis of such information is fostering businesses and …

The collection of digital information by governments, corporations, and individuals has
created tremendous opportunities for knowledge-and information-based decision making …

This textbook explores the different aspects of data mining from the fundamentals to the
complex data types and their applications, capturing the wide diversity of problem domains …

The k-anonymity privacy requirement for publishing microdata requires that each
equivalence class (ie, a set of records that are indistinguishable from each other with respect …

In recent years, privacy-preserving data mining has been studied extensively, because of
the wide proliferation of sensitive information on the internet. A number of algorithmic …

In this article, we introduce a new and general privacy framework called Pufferfish. The
Pufferfish framework can be used to create new privacy definitions that are customized to the …

In this paper, we propose the first formal privacy analysis of a data anonymization process
known as the synthetic data generation, a technique becoming popular in the statistics …

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become integral to numerous domains, significantly
advancing applications in data management, mining, and analysis. Their profound …

Awareness of data and information quality issues has grown rapidly in light of the critical role
played by the quality of information in our data-intensive, knowledge-based economy …

Serious concerns on privacy protection in social networks have been raised in recent years;
however, research in this area is still in its infancy. The problem is challenging due to the …