Privacy Preservation by Disassociation

Summary: Introduces disassociation for sparse multidimensional data: retain original terms while hiding their co-occurrence in identifying combinations. Unlike generalization, suppression, or differential privacy, it protects against identity disclosure without requiring sensitive/non-sensitive attribute distinctions. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10721
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 5.3251649e-05
Overall Rank: 9,086 | 37.67%
DOI: 10.14778/2350229.2350251

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Authors

1. Manolis Terrovitis (Athena)
2. John Liagouris (National Technical University of Athens)
3. Nikos Mamoulis (University of Hong Kong)
4. Spiros Skiadopoulos (University of Peloponnese)

BibTeX Citation

@article{terrovitis_vldb12,
        title = {{Privacy Preservation by Disassociation}},
        author = {Terrovitis, Manolis and Liagouris, John and Mamoulis, Nikos and Skiadopoulos, Spiros},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {10},
        pages = {944--955},
        doi = {10.14778/2350229.2350251},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2350229.2350251},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,339	Aegis: A Correlation-Based Data Masking Advisor for Data-Sharing Ecosystems	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
50	Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00043596705
450	Incognito: Efficient Full-Domain K-Anonymity	2005	SIGMOD	0.00018155142
456	Discovery of Multiple-Level Association Rules from Large Databases	1995	VLDB	0.00018124452
572	Anatomy: Simple and Effective Privacy Preservation	2006	VLDB	0.00016316092
1,817	On k-Anonymity and the Curse of Dimensionality	2005	VLDB	9.6832973e-05
2,430	Anonymizing Bipartite Graph Data using Safe Groupings	2008	VLDB	8.5885381e-05
2,856	Publishing Set-Valued Data via Differential Privacy	2011	VLDB	8.0321774e-05
3,232	Privacy-preserving Anonymization of Set-valued Data	2008	VLDB	7.6179491e-05
4,344	Anonymization of Set-Valued Data via Top-Down, Local Generalization	2009	VLDB	6.7522581e-05
5,494	rho-uncertainty: Inference-Proof Transaction Anonymization	2010	VLDB	6.1997164e-05
7,273	Embellishing Text Search Queries To Protect User Privacy	2010	VLDB	5.6587785e-05

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