DG Update: March 2005

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Project Update - March 2005

1. PUBLICATIONS (available at http://www.niss.org/dgii/techreports.html)

Accepted for publication:

Stephen E. Fienberg and Aleksandra B. Slavkovic (2005). Preserving the confidentiality of categorical statistical data bases when releasing information for association rules. To appear in Datamining and Knowledge Discovery.

Completed recently:

Alan F. Karr, Ashish P. Sanil and David L. Banks (2005). Data quality: A statistical perspective. Submitted to Statistical Methodology.

2. PRESENTATIONS

At ENAR 2005 (Austin, March 20-23, 2005), in an invited session "New Approaches to Statistical Access to Data in a Confidential World" organized by Stephen E. Fienberg:

Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong Lin, Ashish P. Sanil and Jerome P. Reiter: "Regression on Distributed Databases via Secure Multi-Party Computation"
Aleksandra B. Slavkovic: "Bounds for Cell Entries in Multi-way Tables Given Combinations of Marginals and Conditionals"
Alessandro Rinaldo, Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, Seth Sullivant and Stephen E. Fienberg: "Computational Algebraic Geometry: A New Tool For Statistical Disclosure Limitation and Statistical Estimation in Categorical Data Bases"

At the Research Day, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, Carnegie Mellon University, on March 29:

Stephen Fienberg: "Privacy and Confidentiality in a Datamining World: Matching and Disclosure Limitation,"

3. RELATED ITEM. Presentations and other materials from the NISS Affiliates Workshop on Total Survey Error, held on March 17-18, 2005 in Washington, are available at http://www.niss.org/affiliates/totalsurveyerrorworkshop200503/tse_presentations.html

4. UPCOMING MEETINGS

ISI 2005 (Sydney, April 5-12, 2005). Project-generated talks will be given by Stephen E. Fienberg: "Homeland Insecurity: Datamining, Terrorism Detection, and Confidentiality," and Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil: "Data Quality and Data Confidentiality for Microdata: Implications and Strategies"
dg.o 2005 (Atlanta, May 16-18, 2005). Alan Karr will present both a project highlight and a tutorial entitled "Data Confidentiality and Statistical Disclosure Limitation." Details are available at http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/
JSM 2005 (Minneapolis, August 7-11, 2005). NISS-organized session "Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases" on Monday, August 8th from 2:00 to 3:50 PM. Presentations are by Max Buot: "Statistical Analysis in the Presence of Matching Uncertainty," Xiaodong Lin: "Privacy Preserving Statistical Analysis for Horizontally Partitioned Data Sets," and Ashish Sanil: "Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analyses of Distributed Data Using Data Perturbations"

5. OTHER ITEMS

George Duncan participated in a workshop called by Charles Kincannon, Director of the Census Bureau, to address privacy and data access issues with him and his senior staff in Santa Cruz, CA, on March 2-4. The workshop was facilitated by Vincent Barabba, who recently retired as general manager of Corporate Strategy and Knowledge Development of General Motors, and twice served as director of the Census Bureau.
George Duncan and Stephen Fienberg participated in an NSF workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for the Social Sciences at Airlie Center in Virginia, on March 15-16.
Stephen Fienberg hosted a roundtable luncheon at ENAR on "Whither Privacy, Confidentiality, Data Sharing?"
Stephen Roehrig is presenting a 7-week course to students at Carnegie Mellon University on "Privacy and Confidentiality: Models and Implementations". There are 17 students from masters programs in public policy, information systems management, and the Information Networking Institute.

6. NISS NEWSLETTER. Volume 5, number 4 will be available soon, at http://www.niss.org/newsletter.html

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