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Discovering private trajectories using background information

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Discovering private trajectories using background information
Trajectories are spatio-temporal traces of moving objects which contain valuable information to be harvested by spatio-temporal data mining techniques. Applications like city traffic planning, identification of evacuation routes, trend detection, and many more can benefit from trajectory mining. However, the trajectories of individuals often contain private and sensitive information, so anyone who possess trajectory data must take special care when disclosing this data. Removing identifiers from trajectories before the release is not effective against linkage type attacks, and rich sources of background information make it even worse. An alternative is to apply transformation techniques to map the given set of trajectories into another set where the distances are preserved. This way, the actual trajectories are not released, but the distance information can still be used for data mining techniques such as clustering. In this paper, we show that an unknown private trajectory can be re-...
Emre Kaplan, Thomas Brochmann Pedersen, Erkay Sava
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Updated 01 Mar 2011
Type Journal
Year 2010
Where DKE
Authors Emre Kaplan, Thomas Brochmann Pedersen, Erkay Savas, Yücel Saygin
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