DG Update: March 2003

1. PUBLICATIONS. Published recently:

Ashish P. Sanil, Shanti Gomatam, Alan F. Karr and Chunhua "Charlie" Liu, "NISS WebSwap: A Web Service for Data Swapping." To appear in the Journal of Statistical Software, Volume 8, issue 7. Available on-line at http://www.jstatsoft.org/

Accepted for publication:

A. Dobra, A. F. Karr and A. P. Sanil. "Preserving Confidentiality of High-dimensional Tabulated Data: Statistical and Computational Issues." To appear in a special issue on confidentiality of Statistics and Computing. Available on-line at http://www.niss.org/technicalreports/tr130.pdf

William Cohen, Pradeep Ravikumar and Stephen Fienberg: "A Comparison of String Distance Metrics for Name-Matching Tasks." Submitted to The Eighteenth International Joint Conference (IJCAI-2003) Workshop on Information Integration on the Web. Available on-line at http://www.niss.org/dg/technicalreports.html
and http://secondstring.sourceforge.net/doc/iiweb03.pdf

Stephen Fienberg: "Conditional Distributions, Log-linear Models, and Disclosure Limitation Methods," University of Montreal, Montreal Quebec, March 7, 2003.

Stephen Fienberg: "Preserving Confidentiality AND Providing Adequate Data for Statistical Modeling: The Role of Partial and Perturbed Data," Alladin Workshop on Privacy in D.A.T.A., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, March 28, 2003.

3. STRING-MATCHING SOFTWARE. SecondString, an open-source Java-based package of approximate string-matching techniques, is available at http://secondstring.sourceforge.net/

SecondString was developed by researchers from the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, the Department of Statistics, and the Center for Computer and Communications Security at Carnegie Mellon University. Quoting from the project page, "SecondString is intended primarily for researchers in information integration and other scientists. It does or will include a range of string-matching methods from a variety of communities, including statistics, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and databases. It also includes tools for systematically evaluating performance on test data. It is not designed for use on very large data sets."

4. POSTDOCTORAL APPOINTMENT. One joint NISS/SAMSI appointment has been made already, of Xiaodong Lin, who will complete his Ph.D. in statistics at Purdue this spring. Xiaodong is joining the faculty of the University of Cincinnati in 2003, but will take a one-year leave to work on both the NISS Digital Government project and the SAMSI program on Data Mining and Machine Learning.

Other appointments are in process.

5. SAMSI PROGRAMS FOR 2003-04. SAMSI will conduct three programs in 2003-04.
The program on

Data Mining and Machine Learning (Fall, 2003–Spring, 2004)
* Tutorials and Opening Workshop: September 6-10, 2003
* Closing Workshop: May 20-22, 2004

will contain a thread addressing privacy-preserving data mining. For complete information, including the other 2003-04 programs, see the SAMSI Web site: http://www.samsi.info/200304/programs200304.html

6. AIM WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL ALGEBRAIC STATISTICS. Information is available at http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/compalgstat.html

7. NISS NEWSLETTER. Volume 3, number 4 of the NISS Newsletter is available later this week on the NISS Web site, at http://www.niss.org/newsletter.html

It features an article on NISS WebSwap.

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