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Data markets have the potential to foster new data-driven applications and help growing data-driven businesses. When building and deploying such markets in practice, regulations such as the European Union's General Data Protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Karl Koch , Stephan Krenn , Donato Pellegrino , Sebastian Ramacher

Differential privacy is the gold standard for statistical data release. Used by governments, companies, and academics, its mathematically rigorous guarantees and worst-case assumptions on the strength and knowledge of attackers make it a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Kareem Amin , Alex Kulesza , Sergei Vassilvitskii

In the current data driven era, synthetic data, artificially generated data that resembles the characteristics of real world data without containing actual personal information, is gaining prominence. This is due to its potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tshilidzi Marwala , Eleonore Fournier-Tombs , Serge Stinckwich

The amount of personal information contributed by individuals to digital repositories such as social network sites has grown substantially. The existence of this data offers unprecedented opportunities for data analytics research in various…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Michela Chessa , Jens Grossklags , Patrick Loiseau

Digitalization opens up new opportunities in the collection, analysis, and presentation of data which can contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In particular, the access to and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Matthias Stürmer , Jasmin Nussbaumer , Pascal Stöckli

In contemporary digital markets, personal data often reveals not just isolated traits, but complex, intersectional identities based on combinations of race, gender, disability, and other protected characteristics. This exposure generates a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán

Matching markets are of particular interest in computer science and economics literature as they are often used to model real-world phenomena where we aim to equitably distribute a limited amount of resources to multiple agents and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Andrew Yang , Bruce Changlong Xu , Ivan Villa-Renteria

We build an endogenous growth model with consumer-generated data as a new key factor for knowledge accumulation. Consumers balance between providing data for profit and potential privacy infringement. Intermediate good producers use data to…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-09-22 Lin William Cong , Danxia Xie , Longtian Zhang

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

Access to smart meter data offers system-wide benefits but raises significant privacy concerns due to the personal information it contains. Privacy-preserving techniques could facilitate wider access, though they introduce privacy-utility…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Saurab Chhachhi , Fei Teng

Reviews of official statistics for UK housing have noted that developments have not kept pace with real-world change, particularly the rapid growth of private renting. This paper examines the potential value of big data in this context. We…

Applications · Statistics 2021-02-01 Mark Livingston , Francesca Pannullo , Adrian Bowman , Marian Scott , Nick Bailey

We study a two-sided online data ecosystem comprised of an online platform, users on the platform, and downstream learners or data buyers. The learners can buy user data on the platform (to run a statistic or machine learning task).…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Diptangshu Sen , Jingyan Wang , Juba Ziani

Given the vital role that smart meter data could play in handling uncertainty in energy markets, data markets have been proposed as a means to enable increased data access. However, most extant literature considers energy markets and data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Saurab Chhachhi , Fei Teng

There are several aspects of data markets that distinguish them from a typical commodity market: asymmetric information, the non-rivalrous nature of data, and informational externalities. Formally, this gives rise to a new class of games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Samir Wadhwa , Roy Dong

Agencies, such as the U.S. Census Bureau, release data sets and statistics about groups of individuals that are used as input to a number of critical decision processes. To conform to privacy and confidentiality requirements, these agencies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ferdinando Fioretto , Cuong Tran , Pascal Van Hentenryck

We consider a scenario in which a database stores sensitive data of users and an analyst wants to estimate statistics of the data. The users may suffer a cost when their data are used in which case they should be compensated. The analyst…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-19 Lisa Fleischer , Yu-Han Lyu

Ensuring privacy of sensitive data is essential in many contexts, such as healthcare data, banks, e-commerce, wireless sensor networks, and social networks. It is common that different entities coordinate or want to rely on a third party to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Pradeep Chathuranga Weeraddana , George Athanasiou , Martin Jakobsson , Carlo Fischione , John S. Baras

In this paper, we introduce a preliminary model for interactions in the data market. Recent research has shown ways in which a data aggregator can design mechanisms for users to ensure the quality of data, even in situations where the users…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Tyler Westenbroek , Roy Dong , Lillian J. Ratliff , S. Shankar Sastry

Big data has become a great asset for many organizations, promising improved operations and new business opportunities. However, big data has increased access to sensitive information that when processed can directly jeopardize the privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Nils Gruschka , Vasileios Mavroeidis , Kamer Vishi , Meiko Jensen

Most developed countries have started the implementation of biometric electronic identification cards, especially passports. The European Union and the United States of America struggle to introduce and standardize these electronic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-02-19 Paul Balanoiu