Aggregate Suppression for Enterprise Search Engines

Summary: Tackles privacy risk of aggregate estimates exposed by keyword-search interfaces in enterprise search. Proposes suppression techniques that preserve per-query quality while limiting sensitive corpus-wide aggregates; theory and experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4608
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,309 | 15.55%
DOI: 10.1145/2213836.2213890

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Authors

1. Mingyang Zhang (George Washington University)
2. Nan Zhang (George Washington University)
3. Gautam Das (University of Texas)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhang_sigmod12,
        title = {{Aggregate Suppression for Enterprise Search Engines}},
        author = {Zhang, Mingyang and Zhang, Nan and Das, Gautam},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213890},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213890},
        year = {2012}
}

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
70	Privacy-Preserving Data Mining	2000	SIGMOD	0.0003804755
1,074	Privacy Preserving OLAP	2005	SIGMOD	0.0001230007
2,401	Simulatable Auditing	2005	PODS	8.6299652e-05
3,296	Towards Robustness in Query Auditing	2006	VLDB	7.5459953e-05
7,903	Mining a Search Engine’s Corpus: Efficient Yet Unbiased Sampling and Aggregate Estimation	2011	SIGMOD	5.5182155e-05
12,384	Randomized Generalization for Aggregate Suppression Over Hidden Web Databases	2011	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,495	Privacy Preservation of Aggregates in Hidden Databases: Why and How?	2009	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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