In this paper we observe that k-anonymizing a data set is strikingly similar to building a spatial index over the data set, so similar in fact that classical spatial indexing tech...
Web data integration is an important preprocessing step for web mining. It is highly likely that several records on the web whose textual representations differ may represent the ...
Privacy models such as k-anonymity and -diversity typically offer an aggregate or scalar notion of the privacy property that holds collectively on the entire anonymized data set....
In this paper we study when the disclosure of data mining results represents, per se, a threat to the anonymity of the individuals recorded in the analyzed database. The novelty o...
Maurizio Atzori, Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti...