Data Anonymization through Collaborative Multi-view Microaggregation

Autor: Sarah Zouinina, Younès Bennani, Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, Nicoleta Rogovschi
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol 30, Iss 1, Pp 327-345 (2020)
ISSN: 2191-026X
Popis: The interest in data anonymization is exponentially growing, motivated by the will of the governments to open their data. The main challenge of data anonymization is to find a balance between data utility and the amount of disclosure risk. One of the most known frameworks of data anonymization is k-anonymity, this method assumes that a dataset is anonymous if and only if for each element of the dataset, there exist at least k − 1 elements identical to it. In this paper, we propose two techniques to achieve k-anonymity through microaggregation: k-CMVM and Constrained-CMVM. Both, use topological collaborative clustering to obtain k-anonymous data. The first one determines the k levels automatically and the second defines it by exploration. We also improved the results of these two approaches by using pLVQ2 as a weighted vector quantization method. The four methods proposed were proven to be efficient using two data utility measures, the separability utility and the structural utility. The experimental results have shown a very promising performance.
Databáze: OpenAIRE