Class-based graph anonymization for social network data

Summary: Class-based graph anonymization for social networks: grouping entities into classes and masking the mapping to anonymized nodes. Preserves rich data utility with accurate query evaluation under a safety condition that resists inference attacks, shown on real social-network data with efficient queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10166
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 6.886347e-05
Overall Rank: 4,125 | 71.70%
DOI: 10.14778/1687627.1687714

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Authors

1. Smriti Bhagat (Rutgers University)
2. Graham Cormode (AT&T)
3. Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T)
4. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bhagat_vldb09,
        title = {{Class-based graph anonymization for social network data}},
        author = {Bhagat, Smriti and Cormode, Graham and Krishnamurthy, Balachander and Srivastava, Divesh},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687714},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687714},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,977	Injecting Uncertainty in Graphs for Identity Obfuscation	2012	VLDB	7.9035901e-05
5,507	Neighborhood-Privacy Protected Shortest Distance Computing in Cloud	2011	SIGMOD	6.1924452e-05
6,304	Privacy-Aware Data Management in Information Networks	2011	SIGMOD	5.9210809e-05
8,545	Personalized Privacy Protection in Social Networks	2011	VLDB	5.4119882e-05
12,402	Surrogate Parenthood: Protected and Informative Graphs	2011	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
572	Anatomy: Simple and Effective Privacy Preservation	2006	VLDB	0.00016316092
985	Towards Identity Anonymization on Graphs	2008	SIGMOD	0.00012818114
1,295	Minimality Attack in Privacy Preserving Data Publishing	2007	VLDB	0.00011272398
1,326	Resisting Structural Re-identification in Anonymized Social Networks	2008	VLDB	0.00011145219
2,430	Anonymizing Bipartite Graph Data using Safe Groupings	2008	VLDB	8.5885381e-05
4,526	Hiding the Presence of Individuals from Shared Databases	2007	SIGMOD	6.6452861e-05

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