[Please do not cite this paper without the consent of at least one of the authors.] * Earlier versions of this paper were presented in a conference at Ox-ford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford, and a conference at University of California, Riverside. We are grateful to the participants in these two conferences for many helpful comments. In particular , we would like...

The identity of patients must be protected when patient data are shared. The two most commonly used models to protect identity of patients are L-diversity and K-anonymity. However, existing work mainly considers data sets with a single sensitive attribute, while patient data often contain multiple sensitive attributes (e.g., diagnosis and treatment). This article shows that although the K-anony...

In this chapter, authors propose a new method for improving detection probabilities of the defect inspection in quality control on the FRP product surface. The proposed method has improved the detection probabilities by using the joint probabilities of dual attributes with correlation for multiple perceptions. In order to obtain the improving detection probability, three kinds of attributes: si...

Multi-dimension bucketization is a typical method to anonymize multiple sensitive attributes. However, the method leads to low data utility when microdata have more sensitive attributes. In addition, the methods do not generalize quasi-identifiers, which make the anonymous data vulnerable to suffer from linked attacks. To address the problems, the paper proposes a SLOMS method. The method verti...

Over the years, t-closeness has been dealt with in great detail in Privacy Preserving Data Publishing and Mining. Other methods like k-anonymity fail in terms of attribute disclosure and background knowledge attack as demonstrated by many papers in this field. l-diversity also fails in case of skewness attack. t-closenesstakes care of all these shortcomings and is the most robust privacy model ...

The data replication problem (DRP) describes the task of distributing copies of data records (that is, database fragments) among a set of servers in a distributed database system. For the application of flexible query answering, several fragments can be overlapping (in terms of tuples in a database table). In this paper, we provide a formulation of the DRP for horizontal fragmentations with ove...

this study explored the relationship between efl (english as a foreign language) teachers’ emotional intelligence (ei) and their students’ motivational attributes. additionally, it investigated the contribution of efl teachers’ ei to students’ motivational factors. to these ends, 30 efl teachers were selected through convenience sampling from language institutes in najaf-abad, and were asked to...

when the most trusted models evaluate level of trust about service entities at present, the credibility of the service attributes whether the two sides trading result is credible is rather ambiguous, which makes the evaluation model lack of persuasion, and not very good depict the complexity and uncertainty of trust relationship between the two sides. In view of the above questions, learning tr...

For humans, it is usually easier to make statements about the similarity of objects in relative, rather than absolute terms. Moreover, subjective comparisons of objects can be based on a number of different and independent attributes. For example, objects can be compared based on their shape, color, etc. In this paper, we consider the problem of uncovering these hidden attributes given a set of...

Columnar display of linear referenced data portrays dozens of attributes of linear features simultaneously, visually, and interactively. In this genome-like display, each attribute is a layer of an ArcMap data frame. Location is in traditional geographic space and as distance along a measured route created with ArcINFO dynamic segmentation. The resulting display is familiar to investigators acc...