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In order to prevent the disclosure of privacy-sensitive data, such as names and relations between users, social network graphs have to be anonymised before publication. Naive anonymisation of social network graphs often consists in deleting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Sjouke Mauw , Yunior Ramírez-Cruz , Rolando Trujillo-Rasua

Real network datasets provide significant benefits for understanding phenomena such as information diffusion or network evolution. Yet the privacy risks raised from sharing real graph datasets, even when stripped of user identity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Sameera Horawalavithana , Clayton Gandy , Juan Arroyo Flores , John Skvoretz , Adriana Iamnitchi

In this paper, matching pairs of random graphs under the community structure model is considered. The problem emerges naturally in various applications such as privacy, image processing and DNA sequencing. A pair of randomly generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-01 F. Shirani , S. Garg , E. Erkip

Releasing connection data from social networking services can pose a significant threat to user privacy. In our work, we consider structural social network de-anonymization attacks, which are used when a malicious party uses connections in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Gábor György Gulyás , Benedek Simon , Sándor Imre

We give the first polynomial-time, differentially node-private, and robust algorithm for estimating the edge density of Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs and their generalization, inhomogeneous random graphs. We further prove…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hongjie Chen , Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , David Steurer

Online users generate tremendous amounts of data. To better serve users, it is required to share the user-related data among researchers, advertisers and application developers. Publishing such data would raise more concerns on user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Ghazaleh Beigi

In this paper, a new mathematical formulation for the problem of de-anonymizing social network users by actively querying their membership in social network groups is introduced. In this formulation, the attacker has access to a noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Farhad Shirani , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip

Background knowledge is an important factor in privacy preserving data publishing. Distribution-based background knowledge is one of the well studied background knowledge. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no existing work…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu , Jian Pei , Philip S. Yu

Motivated by a strongly growing interest in anonymizing social network data, we investigate the NP-hard Degree Anonymization problem: given an undirected graph, the task is to add a minimum number of edges such that the graph becomes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Sepp Hartung , Clemens Hoffmann , André Nichterlein

Data sharing between different organizations is an essential process in today's connected world. However, recently there were many concerns about data sharing as sharing sensitive information can jeopardize users' privacy. To preserve the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Abdelrahman Eldosouky , Tapadhir Das , Anuraag Kotra , Shamik Sengupta

In a wide spectrum of real-world applications, it is very important to analyze and mine graph data such as social networks, communication networks, citation networks, and so on. However, the release of such graph data often raises privacy…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Weilong Ren , Kambiz Ghazinour , Xiang Lian

Sharing or publishing social network data while accounting for privacy of individuals is a difficult task due to the interconnectedness of nodes in networks. A key question in k-anonymity, a widely studied notion of privacy, is how to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Rachel G. de Jong , Mark P. J. van der Loo , Frank W. Takes

We address the problem of social network de-anonymization when relationships between people are described by scale-free graphs. In particular, we propose a rigorous, asymptotic mathematical analysis of the network de-anonymization problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-27 Carla Chiasserini , Michele Garetto , Emilio Leonardi

Anonymization of graph-based data is a problem which has been widely studied over the last years and several anonymization methods have been developed. Information loss measures have been used to evaluate data utility and information loss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Jordi Casas-Roma

In this paper we present a novel approach for anonymizing Online Social Network graphs which can be used in conjunction with existing perturbation approaches such as clustering and modification. The main insight of this paper is that by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-07 David F. Nettleton , Vicenc Torra , Anton Dries

This paper introduces a unified computational framework for the anonymization problem in social networks, where the objective is to maximize node anonymity through graph alterations. We define three variants of the underlying optimization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rachel G. de Jong , Mark P. J. van der Loo , Frank W. Takes

In a ring-signature-based anonymous cryptocurrency, signers of a transaction are hidden among a set of potential signers, called a ring, whose size is much smaller than the number of all users. The ring-membership relations specified by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Christoph Egger , Russell W. F. Lai , Viktoria Ronge , Ivy K. Y. Woo , Hoover H. F. Yin

Ensuring privacy of individuals is of paramount importance to social network analysis research. Previous work assessed anonymity in a network based on the non-uniqueness of a node's ego network. In this work, we show that this approach does…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Rachel G. de Jong , Mark P. J. van der Loo , Frank W. Takes

The MIT/IEEE/Amazon GraphChallenge encourages community approaches to developing new solutions for analyzing graphs and sparse data derived from social media, sensor feeds, and scientific data to discover relationships between events as…

Graph clustering is widely used in many data analysis applications. In this paper we propose several parallel graph clustering algorithms based on Monte Carlo simulations and expectation maximization in the context of stochastic block…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Frederic Prost , Jisang Yoon