Digital Government:

Project Update - June 2006

1. PUBLICATIONS

Completed recently

• Adrian Dobra, Stephen E. Fienberg, Alessandro Rinaldo, and Yi Zhou: "Confidentiality Protection and Utility for Contingency Table Data: Algorithms and Links to Statistical Theory." Submitted to the conference "Privacy in Statistical Databases 2006" (Rome, Italy, December 2006)
  
  
• Stephen E. Fienberg, William J. Fulp, Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, and Tracey A. Wrobel,"Secure Log-Linear and Logistic Regression Analysis of Distributed Databases." Submitted to the conference "Privacy in Statistical Databases 2006" (Rome, Italy, December 2006)
  
  
• J. Ghosh, J. P. Reiter and A. F. Karr, "Secure computation with horizontally partitioned data using adaptive regression splines. Submitted to Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.
  
  
• A. Oganian and A. F. Karr, "Combinations of SDC methods for microdata protection." Submitted to the conference "Privacy in Statistical Databases 2006" (Rome, Italy, December 2006)
  
  
• M.-J. Woo, J. P. Reiter, A. Oganian and A. F. Karr, "Global measures of data utility for microdata masked for disclosure limitation." To be submitted to the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.
  

2. PRESENTATIONS

At the CAIMS-MITACS (Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society--Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems) 2006 Joint Annual Conference at York University, Toronto Canada, June 16-20:

• Stephen E. Fienberg: "Statistical and Mathematical Foundations for Computing Bounds for Cell Entries in Multi-way Contingency Tables Given Overlapping Marginals"
  
  
  
  At CSIRO Math and Information Sciences, Sydney, June 2006:
  
  
• Alan Karr, "Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases"
  
  
• Alan Karr, "Combining Statistical Disclosure Methods for Microdata"
  
  
  
  At the SRCOS/ASA 2006 Summer Research Conference, Kerrsville, TX, June 4-7, 2006:
  
  
• Bahjat F. Qaqish, "Statistical Issues in Releasing and Sharing Data"
  
  
• Lisa Denogean, "Data Utility and Disclosure Risk for Data Swapping"
  
  
• Francisco Vera, "Secure Statistics Software for Horizontally Partitioned Data"
  

3. SAMSI NDHS-DC WORKING GROUP. The data confidentiality working group that met throughout the past year under the auspices of the SAMSI 2005-06 program on National Defense and Homeland Security is continuing, and will continue next year, as an activity of the NISS DG project (which it has been in part all along).