Title :
An anonymized method for classification with weighted attributes
Author :
Jiandang Wu ; Jiyi Wang ; Jianmin Han ; Hao Peng ; Jianfeng Lu
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Math., Phys. & Inf. Eng., Zhejiang Normal Univ., Jinhua, China
Abstract :
K-anonymity is an effective method to protect individual´s privacy for microdata publishing. However, the existing anonymity methods do not consider how to mask data for a specific application. This paper proposes an anonymity method for classification with weighted attributes. The method first evaluates the weight of each attribute for classification, then proposes an attribute weighted Bottom-Up k-anonymity algorithm which generalizes large weighted attributes as weakly as possible. The experiment results show that the method can get higher quality anonymous data for classification mining.
Keywords :
data mining; pattern classification; attribute weighted bottom-up k-anonymity algorithm; classification anonymized method; classification mining; k-anonymity; microdata publishing privacy; weighted attributes; Algorithm design and analysis; Classification algorithms; Data mining; Equations; Gain measurement; Mathematical model; Weight measurement; classification; data mining; information gain; k-anonymity; privacy preservation;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing, Communication and Computing (ICSPCC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
KunMing
DOI :
10.1109/ICSPCC.2013.6663954