DG Update: October 2003

1. DATA SWAPPING TOOLKIT.
The recently released NISS Data Swapping Toolkit (DSTK) is available for download on the NISS web site, at

http://www.niss.org/software/dstk.html

2. DATA CONFIDENTIALITY TECHNOLOGY DAY, to be held in Washington on Thursday, November 20, 2003. The location will be announced shortly. In part, this technology day is a report on recent research under this project to our partner federal agencies: the BLS, BTS, Census, NASS and NCES. The planned presentations:

- Introduction and Overview: Alan Karr, NISS

- Data Swapping Toolkit: Ashish Sanil, NISS

- Tabular Data (focusing in released marginals): Aleksandra Slavkovic, Carnegie Mellon University

- Perturbation Methods: Steve Roehrig, Carnegie Mellon University

- Regression Servers: Jerome Reiter, Duke University

- Privacy Preserving Regressions: Alan Karr

- Future Plans: Alan Karr

Space is likely to be VERY LIMITED. Those interested in attending should send E-mail to me as soon as possible.

3. RELATED MEETING.

PSD 2004--Privacy in Statistical Databases, will be held in Barcelona, Catalonia on June 9-11, 2004. This meeting has substantial overlap with the project. Information is available at

http://vneumann.etse.urv.es/psd2004/

4. PUBLICATIONS. Appeared recently:

Elena A. Erosheva, Stephen E. Fienberg, Brian W. Junker: Alternative statistical models and representations for large sparse multi-dimensional contingency tables Ann. Fac. Sci. Toulouse Math. (6) 11 (2002), no. 4, 485-505.

Mikael Bilenko, Ray Mooney, William Cohen, Pradeep Ravikumar & Stephen Fienberg, Adaptive Name-Matching in Information Integration (PDF), IEEE Intelligent Systems (2003).

George Duncan: "Commentary on Measuring the Risks and Costs of Disclosure," National Academy of Sciences Workshop "Access to Research Data: Assessing Risks and Opportunities," October 16-17, 2003, Washington.

Stephen Fienberg: three lectures on "Contingency Tables and Computational Algebraic Statistics," October 17, 24, and 31, 2003, CRES-ENSAE, Paris.

Alan Karr: "Data Mining for Homeland Security: Challenges from Data Confidentiality, Data Integration and Data Quality," 9th Army Conference on Applied Statistics, October 29-31, 2003, Napa, CA.

Jerome Reiter: "Protecting Confidentiality by Releasing Synthetic Microdata," INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2003, Atlanta.

Jerome Reiter: "Estimating Probabilities of Identification for Microdata," National Academy of Sciences Workshop "Access to Research Data: Assessing Risks and Opportunities," October 16-17, 2003, Washington.

Stephen Roehrig: "Cyclic Perturbation for Multi-Way Tables," INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 18, 2003, Atlanta.

Aleksandra Slavkovic: "Statistical Disclosure Limitation Beyond the Margins--Making Inferences from Arbitrary Sets of Conditionals and Marginals for Contingency Tables," October 21, 2003, University of California Berkeley

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