Privacy-preserving Anonymization of Set-valued Data

Summary: Introduces k^m-anonymity for set-valued transactions, treating every item as potentially identifying or sensitive under partial-set knowledge. Uses generalization rather than suppression, with an optimal algorithm and scalable greedy heuristics for near-optimal anonymization. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: heb3cfa9aea516371
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 7.4454742e-05
Overall Rank: 3,294 | 77.87%
DOI: 10.14778/1453856.1453874

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Manolis Terrovitis (University of Hong Kong)
2. Nikos Mamoulis (University of Hong Kong)
3. Panos Kalnis (National University of Singapore)

BibTeX Citation

@article{terrovitis_vldb08,
        title = {{Privacy-preserving Anonymization of Set-valued Data}},
        author = {Terrovitis, Manolis and Mamoulis, Nikos and Kalnis, Panos},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        pages = {115},
        doi = {10.14778/1453856.1453874},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1453856.1453874},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,453	PrivBasis: Frequent Itemset Mining with Differential Privacy	2012	VLDB	0.00010597751
2,417	On Differentially Private Frequent Itemset Mining	2013	VLDB	8.4922039e-05
2,913	Publishing Set-Valued Data via Differential Privacy	2011	VLDB	7.8649948e-05
4,432	Anonymization of Set-Valued Data via Top-Down, Local Generalization	2009	VLDB	6.5992973e-05
5,621	rho-uncertainty: Inference-Proof Transaction Anonymization	2010	VLDB	6.0588309e-05
8,880	Set-valued Data Publication with Local Privacy: Tight Error Bounds and Efficient Mechanisms	2020	VLDB	5.2572559e-05
9,270	Privacy Preservation by Disassociation	2012	VLDB	5.2032182e-05
12,802	Anonymized Data: Generation, Models, Usage	2009	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
164	Mining Frequent Patterns without Candidate Generation	2000	SIGMOD	0.000273994
404	On the Complexity of Optimal K-Anonymity	2004	PODS	0.00019072866
470	Incognito: Efficient Full-Domain K-Anonymity	2005	SIGMOD	0.00017747844
584	Anatomy: Simple and Effective Privacy Preservation	2006	VLDB	0.00015947172
3,166	Achieving Anonymity via Clustering	2006	PODS	7.5732039e-05
4,805	Fast Data Anonymization with Low Information Loss	2007	VLDB	6.406552e-05
6,682	Approximate Algorithms for k-Anonymity	2007	SIGMOD	5.7079897e-05

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