Towards Identity Anonymization on Graphs

Summary: Defines k-degree anonymity: every node has at least k−1 others with the same degree, enabling privacy against degree-based re-identification. Presents minimal-graph-modification algorithms to reach a closest k-degree anonymous graph, leveraging degree-sequence realizability; validated on synthetic and real networks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4042
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 0.00012818114
Overall Rank: 985 | 93.25%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376629

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Authors

1. Kun Liu (IBM)
2. Evimaria Terzi (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liu_sigmod08,
        title = {{Towards Identity Anonymization on Graphs}},
        author = {Liu, Kun and Terzi, Evimaria},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376629},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376629},
        year = {2008}
}

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Showing 16 of 16 citing papers.

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855	Relationship Privacy: Output Perturbation for Queries with Joins	2009	PODS	0.00013579513
1,326	Resisting Structural Re-identification in Anonymized Social Networks	2008	VLDB	0.00011145219
1,960	Private Release of Graph Statistics using Ladder Functions	2015	SIGMOD	9.4058693e-05
2,909	K-Automorphism: A General Framework for Privacy Preserving Network Publication	2009	VLDB	7.9708764e-05
2,977	Injecting Uncertainty in Graphs for Identity Obfuscation	2012	VLDB	7.9035901e-05
4,029	Differential Privacy in Telco Big Data Platform	2015	VLDB	6.946445e-05
4,125	Class-based graph anonymization for social network data	2009	VLDB	6.886347e-05
5,227	K-Isomorphism: Privacy Preserving Network Publication against Structural Attacks	2010	SIGMOD	6.3085805e-05
5,384	Privacy Preserving Subgraph Matching on Large Graphs in Cloud	2016	SIGMOD	6.2370509e-05
5,507	Neighborhood-Privacy Protected Shortest Distance Computing in Cloud	2011	SIGMOD	6.1924452e-05
6,288	Publishing Attributed Social Graphs with Formal Privacy Guarantees	2016	SIGMOD	5.9264969e-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
10,392	PrivAGS: Differentially Private Attributed Graph Synthesis	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,402	Surrogate Parenthood: Protected and Informative Graphs	2011	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,506	Anonymized Data: Generation, Models, Usage	2009	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
338	Generalizing Data to Provide Anonymity when Disclosing Information	1998	PODS	0.00020731054
384	On the Complexity of Optimal K-Anonymity	2004	PODS	0.00019510305

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