On identity disclosure in weighted graphs

dc.contributor.authorLi, Y.
dc.contributor.authorShen, H.
dc.contributor.conferenceInternational Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (11th : 2010 : Wuhan, China)
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractAs an integral part of data security, identity disclosure is a major privacy breach, which reveals the identification of entities with certain background knowledge known by an adversary. Most recent studies on this problem focus on the protection of relational data or simple graph data (i.e. undirected, unweighted and acyclic). However, a weighted graph can introduce much more unique information than its simple version, which makes the disclosure easier. As more real-world graphs or social networks are released publicly, there is growing concern about privacy breaching for the entities involved. In this paper, we first formalize a general anonymizing model to deal with weight-related attacks, and discuss an efficient metric to quantify information loss incurred in the perturbation. Then we consider a very practical attack based on the sum of adjacent weights for each vertex, which is known as volume in graph theory field. We also propose a complete solution for the weight anonymization problem to prevent a graph from volume attack. Our approachesare efficient and practical, and have been validated by extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityYidong Li and Hong Shen
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2010), 2010: pp.166-174
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/PDCAT.2010.23
dc.identifier.isbn9780769542874
dc.identifier.orcidShen, H. [0000-0002-3663-6591] [0000-0003-0649-0648]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/65299
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIEEE Computer Society
dc.publisher.placeUSA
dc.rights© 2010 IEEE
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1109/pdcat.2010.23
dc.subjectAnonymity
dc.subjectWeighted Graph
dc.subjectPrivacy Preserving Graph Mining
dc.subjectWeight Anonymization
dc.titleOn identity disclosure in weighted graphs
dc.typeConference paper
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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