Digital Government:

Project Update - November 2002

• A. Dobra, A. F. Karr and A. P. Sanil. "Preserving Confidentiality of High-dimensional Tabulated Data: Statistical and Computational Issues." Submitted to Special Issue of Statistics and Computing on Confidentiality.
  
  
• A. Dobra, E. A. Erosheva and S. E. Fienberg. "Disclosure limitation methods based on bounds for large contingency tables with application to disability data." To appear in Proceedings of Conference on New Frontiers of Statistical Data Mining, (H. Bozdogan, ed.), CRC Press, 2003.
  
  
• S. E. Fienberg. "Confidentiality, privacy and disclosure limitation." To appear in Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Academic Press, 2003.
  
  
• M. Trottini, S. E. Fienberg, U. E. Makov, and M. M. Meyer. "Additive noise and multiplicative bias as disclosure limitation techniques for continuous microdata: A simulation study."

• Adrian Dobra, Stephen E. Fienberg, Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil, "Software Systems for Tabular Data Releases." International Journal on Uncertainty Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems 10(5) (2002) 529-544.

2. POSTDOCTORAL APPOINTMENTS. NISS has project needs and funds to make at least three postdoctoral appointments between now and next summer. Areas include digital government, software engineering, Web site analysis and bioinformatics. Involvement with SAMSI 2003-04 programs on Data Mining & Machine Learning, Internet Traffic and Multiscale Modeling is possible. Please make students and young colleagues aware of these wonderful opportunities. Information and a downloadable announcement are available on the NISS Web site, at

http://www.niss.org/postdoc_info.html

3. HOLIDAY WISHES. Best wishes to all for the holidays and 2003!

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