In todays world, health data are being produced in everincreasing amounts due to extensive use of medical devices generating data in digital form. These data are stored in diverse formats at different health information systems. Medical practitioners and researchers can be benefited significantly if these massive heterogeneous data could be integrated and made accessible through a common platfo...

Organizations have realized that effective development and management of their organizational knowledge base is very important for their survival in todays competitive business environment. People, as a special knowledge asset, also attract the interest of many researchers because, only through people communicating with one another, can they really share their tacit knowledge and skills that ca...

We have seen that additive noise technique is not (SV (γ), ε)-DP. So, the question that we explore in todays class is whether differential privacy (DP) is achievable with SV sources. Interestingly, we give a differential private mechanism for approximate arbitrary “low sensitive” functions that works even with randomness coming from SV source, for any γ < 1. We conclude todays lecture with some...

Todays manufacturing industry faces big challenges. The market demands a very flexible production process which adjusts quickly to e.g. changing characteristics of the produced goods or different lot sizes and which tries to minimize production costs as much possible. In order to meet these challenges todays production control systems become more and more decentralized [GBFG96]. The building bl...