Digital Government:

Project Update - July 2005

• A. F. Karr, X. Lin, A. P. Sanil and J. P. Reiter (2005). Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases. To appear in Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism, D. Olwell and A. G. Wilson, eds., ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability.
  
  
• A. F. Karr, J. Feng, X. Lin, J. P. Reiter, A. P. Sanil and S. S. Young (2005). Secure analysis of distributed chemical databases without data integration. To appear in Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design.
  

• Max Buot: "Random Configurations in Record Linkage"
  
  
• Stephen Fienberg, Daniel Ting, and Mario Trottini: "Disclosure Protection Via Data Perturbation Using Orthogonal Operators"
  
  
• A. F. Karr, C. N. Kohnen, A. Oganian, J. P. Reiter, A. P. Sanil (2005). A framework for evaluating the utility of data altered to protect confidentiality (2005). Submitted to The American Statistician.
  

• Stephen E. Fienberg and Aleksandra B. Slavkovic (2005). Preserving the Confidentiality of Categorical Statistical Data Bases When Releasing Information for Association Rules. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 11, 1-26.
  

• George Duncan: "Some Thoughts on What Distribution should Generate Virtual Data"
  
  
• Stephen Fienberg: "Overview of Disclosure Limitation With focus on Categorical Statistical Databases"
  
  
• Alan Karr: "Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases using Partially Trusted Third Parties"
  
  
• Jerome Reiter: "Generating Partially Synthetic Data When There are Missing Data" and "Sharing Vertically Partitioned, Confidential Data via a Multiple Imputation Approach"
  
  
• Aleksandra Slavkovic: "Algebraic Geometry and Tools for Disclosure Limitation for Contingency Tables"
  
  
• Mario Trottini: "The Structuring of Objectives in a Statistical Confidentiality Problem"
  

• 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"
  
  
• Stephen Fienberg (CMU): "Introductory Overview Lecture on Data Confidentiality" and panelist for "National Security Issues in the Design and Analysis of Social Network Studies"
  
  
• Michael Larsen (Iowa State University): "Advances in Record Linkage Theory"
  
  
• Jerome Reiter (Duke): "Methods of Secure Computation and Data Integration"
  
  
• Stephen F. Roehrig (Carnegie Mellon University) Discussant for Session on "Research Access to Confidential Data for Analysis"
  
  
• Aleksandra Slavkovic (Pennsylvania State University): "Effects of Released Marginals and Conditionals in Multiway Tables on Disclosure Limitation"
  
  
• Mario Trottini (University of Alicante): "Decision Models for Data Disclosure Limitation Problems" (Mario's thesis is a finalist for the 2004 Savage Award to be presented at JSM)