Digital
Government:
Project
Update - November 2004
1. PUBLICATIONS
Accepted for publication:
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Jonathan P. Caulkins, Wenxuan Ding, George Duncan, Ramayya
Krishnan, and Eric Nyberg: "A Method for Managing Access to Web Pages:
Filtering by Statistical Classification (FSC) Applied to Text." To
appear in Decision Support Systems.
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Shanti Gomatam, Alan F. Karr, Jerome P. Reiter and Ashish
P. Sanil (2004). "Data Dissemination and Disclosure Limitation in
a World Without Microdata: A Risk-Utility Framework for Remote Access
Analysis Servers." Final version, to appear in May 2005 issue of
Statistical Science.
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Stephen E. Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University): Datamining
and Disclosure Limitation for Categorical Statistical Databases
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Pradeep Ravikumar, William W. Cohen, Stephen E. Fienberg
(Carnegie Mellon University): A Secure Protocol for Computing String Distance
Metrics
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Aleksandra Slavkovic (Pennsylvania State University):
Statistical Disclosure Limitation with Released Marginal and Conditionals
for Contingency Tables.
Topics in Privacy Seminar, Data Privacy Lab, Carnegie Mellon University,
November 9, 2004:
3. RELATED ITEMS. The NISS Affiliates Program is planning a workshop on
Total Survey Error, to be held on March 17-18, 2005 in Washington. Details
will appear soon on the affiliates web site: http://www.niss.org/affiliates/affiliatesmain.html
4. ENAR 2005. An invited session "New Approaches Statistical Access
to Data in a Confidential World" organized by Stephen E. Fienberg has
been accepted for the ENAR 2005 Spring Meeting (Austin, March 20-23, 2005).
The presentations:
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Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong Lin, Ashish P. Sanil, National
Institute of Statistical Sciences, and Jerome P. Reiter, Duke University:
"Regression on Distributed Databases via Secure Multi-Party Computation"
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Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, Pennsylvania State University:
"Bounds for Cell Entries in Multi-way Tables Given Combinations of
Marginals and Conditionals"
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Alessandro Rinaldo, Carnegie Mellon University Aleksandra
B. Slavkovic, Pennsylvania State University, Seth Sullivant, University
of California Berkeley, and Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University:
"Computational Algebraic Geometry: A New Tool For Statistical Disclosure
Limitation and Statistical Estimation in Categorical Data Bases"
5. ISI 2005 (Sydney, April 5-12, 2005). Project-generated talks include:
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Stephen E. Fienberg: "Homeland Insecurity: Datamining,
Terrorism Detection, and Confidentiality"
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Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil: "Data Quality and
Data Confidentiality for Microdata: Implications and Strategies"
6. JSM 2005. A NISS-organized session "Secure Statistical Analysis
of Distributed Databases" is on the invited program for the 2005 Joint
Statistical Meetings (Minneapolis, August 7-11, 2005). The session has been
scheduled for Monday, August 8th from 2:00 to 3:50 PM.
Speakers and titles:
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Max Buot, NISS and Carnegie Mellon: "Statistical
Analysis in the Presence of Matching Uncertainty"
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Xiaodong Lin, NISS and University of Cincinnati: "Privacy
Preserving Statistical Analysis for Horizontally Partitioned Data Sets"
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Ashish Sanil, NISS: "Privacy-Preserving Statistical
Analyses of Distributed Data Using Data Perturbations"
7. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!
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