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Process mining aims to extract and analyze insights from event logs, yet algorithm metric results vary widely depending on structural event log characteristics. Existing work often evaluates algorithms on a fixed set of real-world event…

Many large-scale information systems such as intelligent transportation systems, smart grids or smart buildings collect data about the activities of their users to optimize their operations. To encourage participation and adoption of these…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Jerome Le Ny

System logs are a valuable source of information for the analysis and understanding of systems behavior for the purpose of improving their performance. Such logs contain various types of information, including sensitive information.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Siavash Ghiasvand , Florina M. Ciorba

Being able to release and exploit open data gathered in information systems is crucial for researchers, enterprises and the overall society. Yet, these data must be anonymized before release to protect the privacy of the subjects to whom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-17 David Sánchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Sergio Martínez , Jordi Soria-Comas

Data mining services require accurate input data for their results to be meaningful, but privacy concerns may influence users to provide spurious information. To encourage users to provide correct inputs, we recently proposed a data…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Shipra Agrawal , Vijay Krishnan , Jayant Haritsa

In the contemporary business landscape, collaboration across multiple organizations offers a multitude of opportunities, including reduced operational costs, enhanced performance, and accelerated technological advancement. The application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Valerio Goretti , Davide Basile , Luca Barbaro , Claudio Di Ciccio

Companies are looking to data anonymization research $\unicode{x2013}$ including differential private and synthetic data methods $\unicode{x2013}$ for simple and straightforward compliance solutions. But data anonymization has not taken off…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Matthew J. Schneider , James Bailie , Dawn Iacobucci

Releasing Web query logs which contain valuable information for research or marketing, can breach the privacy of search engine users. Therefore rendering query logs to limit linking a query to an individual while preserving the data…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Amin Milani Fard

Privacy is an increasingly important aspect of data publishing. Reasoning about privacy, however, is fraught with pitfalls. One of the most significant is the auxiliary information (also called external knowledge, background knowledge, or…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Srivatsava Ranjit Ganta , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Adam Smith

Process mining acts as a valuable tool to analyse the behaviour of an organisation by offering techniques to discover, monitor and enhance real processes. The key to process mining is to discovery understandable process models. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Qifan Chen , Yang Lu , Simon Poon

Despite the considerable promise of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), many real-world use cases may create privacy concerns, where the purported utility of RAG-enabled insights comes at the risk of exposing private information to either…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Andreea-Elena Bodea , Stephen Meisenbacher , Florian Matthes

The development of artificial intelligence has significantly transformed people's lives. However, it has also posed a significant threat to privacy and security, with numerous instances of personal information being exposed online and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Le Yang , Miao Tian , Duan Xin , Qishuo Cheng , Jiajian Zheng

In statistical disclosure control, the goal of data analysis is twofold: The released information must provide accurate and useful statistics about the underlying population of interest, while minimizing the potential for an individual…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-07-15 Jing Lei , Anne-Sophie Charest , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Adam Smith , Stephen Fienberg

In this work, we focus on protection against identity disclosure in the publication of sparse multidimensional data. Existing multidimensional anonymization techniquesa) protect the privacy of users either by altering the set of…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Manolis Terrovitis , John Liagouris , Nikos Mamoulis , Spiros Skiadopoulos

Differential Privacy can provide provable privacy guarantees for training data in machine learning. However, the presence of proofs does not preclude the presence of errors. Inspired by recent advances in auditing which have been used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Florian Tramer , Andreas Terzis , Thomas Steinke , Shuang Song , Matthew Jagielski , Nicholas Carlini

User profiling is crucial in providing personalised services, as it relies on analysing user behaviour and preferences to deliver targeted services. This approach enhances user experience and promotes heightened engagement. Nevertheless,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-07 Imdad Ullah , Najm Hassan , Tariq Ahamed Ahangar , Zawar Hussain Shah , Mehregan Mahdavi , Andrew Levula

Process mining is of great importance for both data-centric and process-centric systems. Process mining receives so-called process logs which are collections of partially-ordered events. An event has to possess at least three attributes,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Iman M. A. Helal , Ahmed Awad

Process mining is a multi-purpose tool enabling organizations to improve their processes. One of the primary purposes of process mining is finding the root causes of performance or compliance problems in processes. The usual way of doing so…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Mahnaz Sadat Qafari , Wil van der Aalst

Enterprise information systems allow companies to maintain detailed records of their business process executions. These records can be extracted in the form of event logs, which capture the execution of activities across multiple instances…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Adriano Augusto , Marlon Dumas , Marcello La Rosa

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