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Keeping Secrets in Possibilistic Knowledge Bases with Necessity-Valued Privacy Policies

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Controlled Query Evaluation (CQE) is a logical framework for the protection of secrets in databases. In this article, we extend the CQE framework to possibilistic logic: knowledge base, a priori knowledge and privacy policy are expressed with necessity-valued formulas that represent several degrees of certainty. We present a formal security definition and analyze an appropriate controlled evaluation algorithm for this possibilistic case.

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Wiese, L. (2010). Keeping Secrets in Possibilistic Knowledge Bases with Necessity-Valued Privacy Policies. In: Hüllermeier, E., Kruse, R., Hoffmann, F. (eds) Computational Intelligence for Knowledge-Based Systems Design. IPMU 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14049-5_67

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