Nowadays gigantic crowd-sourced data from mobile devices have become widely available
in social networks, enabling the possibility of many important data mining applications to …

The continuous publication of aggregate statistics over crowd-sourced data to the public has
enabled many data mining applications (eg, real-time traffic analysis). Existing systems …

Search engine companies collect the “database of intentions,” the histories of their users'
search queries. These search logs are a gold mine for researchers. Search engine …

Severe privacy leakage in the AOL search log incident has attracted considerable worldwide
attention. However, all the web users' daily search intents and behavior are collected in such …

The anonymization of query logs is an important process that needs to be performed prior to
the publication of such sensitive data. This ensures the anonymity of the users in the logs, a …

An e-mail address is a source of communication for major social networking sites. In
general, e-mail addresses hold identity in the form a surname as a substring in it. Identities …

Today there is a strong interest in publishing set-valued data in a privacy-preserving
manner. Such data associate individuals to sets of values (eg, preferences, shop** items …

Topic mining extracts patterns and insights from text data (eg, documents, emails and
product reviews), which can be used in various applications such as intent detection …

In the contemporary information era, the ubiquitous collection of data from different parties
frequently accommodates significant mutual benefits to the involved participants. However …

Web search logs contain extremely sensitive data, as evidenced by the recent AOL incident.
However, storing and analyzing search logs can be very useful for many purposes (ie …