Title
Privacy-preserving publication of provenance workflows
Abstract
Provenance workflows capture the data movement and the operations changing the data in complex applications such as scientific computations, document management in large organizations, content generation in social media, etc. Provenance is essential to understand the processes and operations that data undergo, and many research efforts focused on modeling, capturing and analyzing provenance information. Sharing provenance brings numerous benefits, but may also disclose sensitive information, such as secret processes of synthesizing chemical substances, confidential business practices and private details about social media participants' lives. In this paper, we study privacy-preserving provenance workflow publication using differential privacy. We adapt techniques designed for sanitization of multi-dimensional spatial data to the problem of provenance workflows. Experimental results show that such an approach is feasible to protect provenance workflows, while at the same time retaining a significant amount of utility for queries. In addition, we identify influential factors and trade-offs that emerge when sanitizing provenance workflows.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2557547.2557586
CODASPY
Keywords
Field
DocType
provenance workflow publication,provenance information,sanitizing provenance workflows,social media participant,privacy-preserving publication,social media,data movement,complex application,sensitive information,multi-dimensional spatial data,provenance workflows,privacy
Spatial analysis,Internet privacy,World Wide Web,Social media,Confidentiality,Differential privacy,Document management system,Computer science,Provenance,Information sensitivity,Workflow
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mihai Maruseac175.31
Gabriel Ghinita2196487.44
Razvan Rughinis32513.70