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Process mining techniques enable organizations to analyze business process execution traces in order to identify opportunities for improving their operational performance. Oftentimes, such execution traces contain private information. For…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Gamal Elkoumy , Alisa Pankova , Marlon Dumas

Protecting personal data about individuals, such as event traces in process mining, is an inherently difficult task since an event trace leaks information about the path in a process model that an individual has triggered. Yet, prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Max Schulze , Yorck Zisgen , Moritz Kirschte , Esfandiar Mohammadi , Agnes Koschmider

Imagine a group of citizens willing to collectively contribute their personal data for the common good to produce socially useful information, resulting from data analytics or machine learning computations. Sharing raw personal data with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Riad Ladjel , Nicolas Anciaux , Aurélien Bellet , Guillaume Scerri

Data-driven advancements significantly contribute to societal progress, yet they also pose substantial risks to privacy. In this landscape, differential privacy (DP) has become a cornerstone in privacy preservation efforts. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sara Saeidian , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

The process of data mining with differential privacy produces results that are affected by two types of noise: sampling noise due to data collection and privacy noise that is designed to prevent the reconstruction of sensitive information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Yue Wang , Daniel Kifer , Jaewoo Lee

Process mining techniques enable analysts to identify and assess process improvement opportunities based on event logs. A common roadblock to process mining is that event logs may contain private information that cannot be used for analysis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Gamal Elkoumy , Marlon Dumas

Data stewards and analysts can promote transparent and trustworthy science and policy-making by facilitating assessments of the sensitivity of published results to alternate analysis choices. For example, researchers may want to assess…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-24 Chengxin Yang , Jerome P. Reiter

Differential privacy is a strong notion for privacy that can be used to prove formal guarantees, in terms of a privacy budget, $\epsilon$, about how much information is leaked by a mechanism. However, implementations of privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Bargav Jayaraman , David Evans

Differential privacy provides strong privacy guarantees for machine learning applications. Much recent work has been focused on developing differentially private models, however there has been a gap in other stages of the machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ashly Lau , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

It is difficult to continually update private machine learning models with new data while maintaining privacy. Data incur increasing privacy loss -- as measured by differential privacy -- when they are used in repeated computations. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Lauren Watson , Abhirup Ghosh , Benedek Rozemberczki , Rik Sarkar

With the development of Big Data and cloud data sharing, privacy preserving data publishing becomes one of the most important topics in the past decade. As one of the most influential privacy definitions, differential privacy provides a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tianqing Zhu , Ping Xiong , Gang Li , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

Despite recent widespread deployment of differential privacy, relatively little is known about what users think of differential privacy. In this work, we seek to explore users' privacy expectations related to differential privacy.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Rachel Cummings , Gabriel Kaptchuk , Elissa M. Redmiles

In recent years, the industry has been witnessing an extended usage of process mining and automated event data analysis. Consequently, there is a rising significance in addressing privacy apprehensions related to the inclusion of sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Frederik Wangelik , Majid Rafiei , Mahsa Pourbafrani , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

In the area of industrial process mining, privacy-preserving event data publication is becoming increasingly relevant. Consequently, the trade-off between high data utility and quantifiable privacy poses new challenges. State-of-the-art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Majid Rafiei , Frederik Wangelik , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Motivated by understanding the dynamics of sensitive social networks over time, we consider the problem of continual release of statistics in a network that arrives online, while preserving privacy of its participants. For our privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Shuang Song , Susan Little , Sanjay Mehta , Staal Vinterbo , Kamalika Chaudhuri

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

Since being proposed in 2006, differential privacy has become a standard method for quantifying certain risks in publishing or sharing analyses of sensitive data. At its heart, differential privacy measures risk in terms of the differences…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Anand D. Sarwate , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

A large amount of transaction data containing associations between individuals and sensitive information flows everyday into data stores. Examples include web queries, credit card transactions, medical exam records, transit database…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-10-06 Daniele Riboni , Linda Pareschi , Claudio Bettini

Modern stream-based monitors collect detailed statistics of the runtime behavior of the system under observation. If the system runs in a privacy-sensitive context, this poses the risk of disclosing sensitive information. Differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bernd Finkbeiner , Frederik Scheerer

Auditing differential privacy has emerged as an important area of research that supports the design of privacy-preserving mechanisms. Privacy audits help to obtain empirical estimates of the privacy parameter, to expose flawed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Önder Askin , Tim Kutta , Holger Dette