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A Constraint-Based Model for the Frequent Itemset Hiding Problem

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This paper introduces a novel constraint-based hiding model to drastically reduce the preprocessing overhead that is incurred by border-based techniques in the hiding of sensitive frequent itemsets. The proposed model is solved by an efficient constraint-based mining algorithm that pushes a conjunction of antimonotone constraints into an Apriori-like algorithm, for inducing the support theory of non-sensitive frequent itemsets along with its negative border. The patterns induced by the constraint-based mining algorithm can be used in border-based hiding algorithms to construct a sanitized version of the original database, where the sensitive knowledge is concealed. The efficiency of the constraint-based mining algorithm is evaluated on real and synthetic datasets.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The algorithm processes the itemsets levelwise: it firstly determines the frequent itemsets of size 1, then generates all itemesets of size 2 and determines which of these are frequent, etc. At the n-th level, all frequent itemsets of size n-1 are known and an itemset of size n is frequent if all its subsets of size n-1 are frequent (the Apriory property).

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    Non-sensitive itemsets are indifferent to our problem and there is to need to be specified explicitly.

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  1. Big Data Analytics and Anonymization Laboratory, School of Science and Technology, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

    Vassilios S. Verykios

  2. Educational Content, Methodology and Technology Laboratory, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

    Elias C. Stavropoulos

  3. Hellenic Data Protection Authority, Athens, Greece

    Vasilis Zorkadis

  4. Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Doha, Qatar

    Ahmed K. Elmagarmid

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Verykios, V.S., Stavropoulos, E.C., Zorkadis, V., Elmagarmid, A.K. (2020). A Constraint-Based Model for the Frequent Itemset Hiding Problem. In: Katsikas, S., Zorkadis, V. (eds) E-Democracy – Safeguarding Democracy and Human Rights in the Digital Age. e-Democracy 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1111. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37545-4_4

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