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 …

This article reviews the current understanding of the electrical properties of the grain
boundaries of acceptor-doped zirconia and ceria, however, with an emphasis on the grain …

Over the past five years a new approach to privacy-preserving data analysis has born fruit
[13, 18, 7, 19, 5, 37, 35, 8, 32]. This approach differs from much (but not all!) of the related …

A fruitful direction for future data mining research will be the development of techniques that
incorporate privacy concerns. Specifically, we address the following question. Since the …

We examine the tradeoff between privacy and usability of statistical databases. We model a
statistical database by an n-bit string d 1,.., dn, with a query being a subset q⊆[n] to be …

We present a framework for mining association rules from transactions consisting of
categorical items where the data has been randomized to preserve privacy of individual …

These methods are presented in the framework of a general query evaluation procedure
using the relational calculus representation of queries. In addition, nonstandard query …

Literature on information integration across databases tacitly assumes that the data in each
database can be revealed to the other databases. However, there is an increasing need for …

Publisher Summary The Hippocratic Oath has guided the conduct of physicians for
centuries. Inspired by its tenet of preserving privacy, it has been argued that future database …

Most common database management systems represent information in a simple record-
based format. Semantic modeling provides richer data structuring capabilities for database …