Nowadays, privacy is an important issue, for this reason many researchers are working in the development of new data protection methods. The aim of these methods is to minimize the disclosure risk (DR) preserving the data ...

The use of collaborative network services is increasing, therefore, the protection of the resources and relations shared by network participants is becoming crucial. One of the main issues in such networks is the evaluation ...

The use of collaborative networks services in general, and web based social networks (WBSN) services in particular, is today increasing and, therefore, the protection of the resources shared by network participants is ...

Microaggregation is one of the most employed microdata protection methods. It builds clusters of at least k original records, and then replaces these records with the centroid of the cluster. When the number of attributes ...

Nowadays, the need for privacy motivates the use of methods that permit us to protect a microdata file both minimizing the disclosure risk and preserving the statistical utility. Nevertheless, research is usually focused ...

Nowadays, the management of sequential and temporal data is an increasing need in many data mining processes. Therefore, the development of new privacy preserving data mining techniques for sequential data is a crucial ...

The goal of statistical disclosure control (SDC) is to modify statistical data so that it can be published without releasing confidential information that may be linked to specific respondents. The challenge for SDC is to ...