DG Update: September 2006

S. Gomatam, A. F. Karr, A. P. Sanil (2005). Data swapping as a decision problem. Journal of Official Statistics 21(4) 635-656.

Accepted for publication

J. Ghosh, J. P. Reiter and A. F. Karr (2006). Secure computation with horizontally partitioned data using adaptive regression splines. To appear in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.

A. F. Karr (2006). Citizen Access to Government Statistical Information. to appear in _Digital Government: Advanced Research and Case Studies_, H. Chen, L. Brandt, S. Dawes, V. Gregg, E. Hovy, A. Macintosh, R Traunmüller, and C. Larson, eds. Springer-Verlag.

Submitted for publication

M. Larsen (2006). Ideas for secure record linkage. Submitted to Privacy in Statistical Databases 2006.

M.-J. Woo, J. P. Reiter, A. Oganian and A. F. Karr (2006). Global measures of data utility for microdata masked for disclosure limitation. Submitted to Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.

2. JOURNAL OF PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY. I am pleased to announce that the new Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality (JPC) is now operational, under the editorship of

John M. Abowd, Cornell University, USA

Kobbi Nissim, Ben Gurion University, Israel

Chris Skinner, University of Southampton, UK

with an international board of associate editors. Disciplines represented on the editorial board include statistics, computer science, operations research, law and the biological, medical, and social sciences.

JPC is an open-access multi-disciplinary electronic journal whose purpose is to facilitate the coalescence of research methodologies and activities in the areas of privacy, confidentiality, and disclosure limitation. It is dedicated to prompt review and publication of manuscripts.

JPC seeks to publish a wide range of research and review papers on the interrelated topics of confidentiality, disclosure limitation, and privacy, not only from academia, but also from government (especially, official statistics agencies) and industry. JPC also plans to serve as a forum for exchanges of views, discussion, and news.

The first issue of JPC is expected in early 2007. For more information, see the JPC webpage: http://jpc.cylab.cmu.edu.

The founders of JPC are Cynthia Dwork, Stephen Fienberg and me.

3. NISS AFFILIATES DATA CONFIDENTIALITY 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 continues this year as an activity of the NISS DG project and the NISS affiliates program. The group meetings weekly at 9:15 AM Eastern time on Tuesdays, via a combination of teleconference and the WebEx web collaboration tool. Anyone interested in joining the group or just being added to the mailing list, please let me know.

4. NEWS ITEMS

Graduate student Jennifer Huckett at Iowa State University is studying simulation methods for producing synthetic data sets in response to confidentiality concerns. This work is being done for the Iowa Department of Revenue.

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