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System and network event logs are essential for security analytics, threat detection, and operational monitoring. However, these logs often contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII), raising significant privacy concerns when shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shreyas Bargale , Akshit Vakati Venkata , Jaimandeep Singh , Chester Rebeiro

Pseudonymisation provides the means to reduce the privacy impact of monitoring, auditing, intrusion detection, and data collection in general on individual subjects. Its application on data records, especially in an environment with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Ephraim Zimmer , Christian Burkert , Tom Petersen , Hannes Federrath

Motion sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes measure the instant acceleration and rotation of a device, in three dimensions. Raw data streams from motion sensors embedded in portable and wearable devices may reveal private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Richard G. Clegg , Andrea Cavallaro , Hamed Haddadi

Camouflaging data by generating fake information is a well-known obfuscation technique for protecting data privacy. In this paper, we focus on a very sensitive and increasingly exposed type of data: location data. There are two main…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Vincent Bindschaedler , Reza Shokri

Human mobility data is a crucial resource for urban mobility management, but it does not come without personal reference. The implementation of security measures such as anonymization is thus needed to protect individuals' privacy. Often, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Alexandra Kapp

Our behavior (the way we talk, walk, act or think) is unique and can be used as a biometric trait. It also correlates with sensitive attributes like emotions and health conditions. Hence, techniques to protect individuals privacy against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Simon Hanisch , Patricia Arias-Cabarcos , Javier Parra-Arnau , Thorsten Strufe

Event logs recorded during the execution of business processes constitute a valuable source of information. Applying process mining techniques to them, event logs may reveal the actual process execution and enable reasoning on quantitative…

This paper considers random walk-based decentralized learning, where at each iteration of the learning process, one user updates the model and sends it to a randomly chosen neighbor until a convergence criterion is met. Preserving data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Maximilian Egger , Svenja Lage , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Process mining allows analysts to exploit logs of historical executions of business processes to extract insights regarding the actual performance of these processes. One of the most widely studied process mining operations is automated…

For a better understanding of anonymization methods for location traces, we have designed and held a location trace anonymization contest that deals with a long trace (400 events per user) and fine-grained locations (1024 regions). In our…

Process mining is a research area focusing on the design of algorithms that can automatically provide insights into business processes. Among the most popular algorithms are those for automated process discovery, which have the ultimate…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Adriano Augusto , Jan Mendling , Maxim Vidgof , Bastian Wurm

Human motion is a behavioral biometric trait that can be used to identify individuals and infer private attributes such as medical conditions. This poses a serious threat to privacy as motion extraction from video and motion capture are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Simon Hanisch , Julian Todt , Thorsten Strufe

In medical organizations large amount of personal data are collected and analyzed by the data miner or researcher, for further perusal. However, the data collected may contain sensitive information such as specific disease of a patient and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Pawan R Bhaladhare , Devesh Jinwala

Network data needs to be shared for distributed security analysis. Anonymization of network data for sharing sets up a fundamental tradeoff between privacy protection versus security analysis capability. This privacy/analysis tradeoff has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-10 William Yurcik , Clay Woolam , Greg Hellings , Latifur Khan , Bhavani Thuraisingham

Record linkage has been extensively used in various data mining applications involving sharing data. While the amount of available data is growing, the concern of disclosing sensitive information poses the problem of utility vs privacy. In…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Luca Bonomi , Li Xiong , Rui Chen , Benjamin C. M. Fung

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

In this paper, we explore how modifying data to preserve privacy affects the quality of the patterns discoverable in the data. For any analysis of modified data to be worth doing, the data must be as close to the original as possible.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Sam Fletcher , Md Zahidul Islam

Process mining techniques such as process discovery and conformance checking provide insights into actual processes by analyzing event data that are widely available in information systems. These data are very valuable, but often contain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Majid Rafiei , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

As network security monitoring grows more sophisticated, there is an increasing need for outsourcing such tasks to third-party analysts. However, organizations are usually reluctant to share their network traces due to privacy concerns over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Meisam Mohammady , Lingyu Wang , Yuan Hong , Habib Louafi , Makan Pourzandi , Mourad Debbabi

Process mining techniques help to improve processes using event data. Such data are widely available in information systems. However, they often contain highly sensitive information. For example, healthcare information systems record event…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Majid Rafiei , Wil M. P. van der Aalst