[Publicity-list] [Publicity-list]: DIMACS/PORTIA Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
* DIMACS/PORTIA Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Data Mining March 15 - 16, 2004 DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ Organizers: Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft, dwork at microsoft.com Benny Pinkas, HP Labs, benny.pinkas at hp.com Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology, rwright at cs.stevens-tech.edu Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Communication Security and Information Privacy, and the PORTIA project. This workshop and working group will bring together researchers and practitioners in cryptography, data mining, and other areas to discuss privacy-preserving data mining. The workshop sessions on March 15 and 16, 2004 will consist of invited talks and discussion. March 17, 2004 will be a "working group" of invited participants to identify and explore approaches that could serve as the basis for more sophisticated algorithms and implementations than presently exist, and to discuss directions for further research and collaboration. Both the workshop and working group will investigate the construction and exploitation of "private" databases, e.g. * Merging information from multiple data sets in a consistent, secure, efficient and privacy-preserving manner; * Sanitizing databases to permit privacy-preserving public study. In a wide variety of applications it would be useful to be able to gather information from several different data sets. The owners of these data sets may not be willing, or legally able, to share their complete data with each other. The ability to collaborate without revealing information could be instrumental in fostering inter-agency collaboration. Particular topics of interest include: * Secure multi-party computation. This is a very general and well-studied paradigm that unfortunately has not been used in practice so far. We will investigate ways to make it more efficient and encourage its deployment. * Statistical techniques such as data swapping, post-randomization, and perturbation. * Articulation of different notions and aspects of privacy. * Tradeoffs between privacy and accuracy. * Architectures that facilitate private queries by a (semi-trusted) third party. * Methods for handling different or incompatible formats, and erroneous data. We will investigate ideas from dimension reduction, clustering and searching strategy. ** Participation: Participation in the workshop (March 15 and 16, 2004) is open to anyone who registers (no submission necessary but registration is required). Participation in the working group on March 17, 2004 is limited, and by invitation only, because of the emphasis on achieving a high degree of interactivity and discussion. Workshop participants who are interested in participating in the working group session should send a 1-page abstract or position paper describing their work relevant to this workshop to [EMAIL PROTECTED] All submissions must be received by February 8, 2004 and authors will be notified by February 15, 2004 as to whether they have been accepted to participate in the working group. In addition, the authors of some submissions may be invited to present short talks about their work. Submissions may describe ongoing or planned work related to the area of the working group, or they may discuss important research problems or propose a research agenda in this area. ** Registration Fees: (Pre-registration deadline: March 8, 2004) Regular Rate Preregister before deadline $120/day After preregistration deadline $140/day Reduced Rate* Preregister before deadline $60/day After preregistration deadline $70/day Postdocs Preregister before deadline $10/day After preregistration deadline $15/day DIMACS Postdocs $0 Non-Local Graduate & Undergraduate students Preregister before deadline $5/day After preregistration deadline $10/day Local Graduate & Undergraduate students $0 (Rutgers & Princeton) DIMACS partner institution employees** $0 DIMACS long-term visitors*** $0 Registration fee to be collected on site, cash, check, VISA/Mastercard accepted. Our funding agencies require that we charge a registration fee during the course of the workshop. Registration fees include participation in the workshop, all workshop materials, breakfast, lunch, breaks and any scheduled social events (if applicable). * College/University faculty and employees of nonprofit and government organizations will automatically receive the reduced rate. Other participants may apply for a reduction of fees. They should email their request for the reduced fee to the Workshop Coordinator at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include your name, the Institution you work for, your job title and
[Publicity-list]: DIMACS/PORTIA Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
* DIMACS/PORTIA Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Data Mining March 15 - 16, 2004 DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ Organizers: Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft, dwork at microsoft.com Benny Pinkas, HP Labs, benny.pinkas at hp.com Rebecca Wright, Stevens Institute of Technology, rwright at cs.stevens-tech.edu Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Communication Security and Information Privacy, and the PORTIA project. This workshop and working group will bring together researchers and practitioners in cryptography, data mining, and other areas to discuss privacy-preserving data mining. The workshop sessions on March 15 and 16, 2004 will consist of invited talks and discussion. March 17, 2004 will be a "working group" of invited participants to identify and explore approaches that could serve as the basis for more sophisticated algorithms and implementations than presently exist, and to discuss directions for further research and collaboration. Both the workshop and working group will investigate the construction and exploitation of "private" databases, e.g. * Merging information from multiple data sets in a consistent, secure, efficient and privacy-preserving manner; * Sanitizing databases to permit privacy-preserving public study. In a wide variety of applications it would be useful to be able to gather information from several different data sets. The owners of these data sets may not be willing, or legally able, to share their complete data with each other. The ability to collaborate without revealing information could be instrumental in fostering inter-agency collaboration. Particular topics of interest include: * Secure multi-party computation. This is a very general and well-studied paradigm that unfortunately has not been used in practice so far. We will investigate ways to make it more efficient and encourage its deployment. * Statistical techniques such as data swapping, post-randomization, and perturbation. * Articulation of different notions and aspects of privacy. * Tradeoffs between privacy and accuracy. * Architectures that facilitate private queries by a (semi-trusted) third party. * Methods for handling different or incompatible formats, and erroneous data. We will investigate ideas from dimension reduction, clustering and searching strategy. ** Registration Fees: (Pre-registration deadline: March 8, 2004) Regular Rate Preregister before deadline $120/day After preregistration deadline $140/day Reduced Rate* Preregister before deadline $60/day After preregistration deadline $70/day Postdocs Preregister before deadline $10/day After preregistration deadline $15/day DIMACS Postdocs $0 Non-Local Graduate & Undergraduate students Preregister before deadline $5/day After preregistration deadline $10/day Local Graduate & Undergraduate students $0 (Rutgers & Princeton) DIMACS partner institution employees** $0 DIMACS long-term visitors*** $0 Registration fee to be collected on site, cash, check, VISA/Mastercard accepted. Our funding agencies require that we charge a registration fee during the course of the workshop. Registration fees include participation in the workshop, all workshop materials, breakfast, lunch, breaks and any scheduled social events (if applicable). * College/University faculty and employees of nonprofit and government organizations will automatically receive the reduced rate. Other participants may apply for a reduction of fees. They should email their request for the reduced fee to the Workshop Coordinator at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include your name, the Institution you work for, your job title and a brief explanation of your situation. All requests for reduced rates must be received before the pre-registration deadline. You will promptly be notified as to the decision about it. ** Fees for employees of DIMACS partner institutions are waived. DIMACS partner institutions are: Rutgers University, Princeton University, AT&T Labs - Research, Bell Labs, NEC Laboratories America and Telcordia Technologies. Fees for employees of DIMACS affiliate members Avaya Labs, IBM Research and Microsoft Research are also waived. ***DIMACS long-term visitors who are in residence at DIMACS for two or more weeks inclusive of dates of workshop. * Information on participation, registration, accomodations, and travel can be found at: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Privacy/ **PLEASE BE SURE TO PRE-REGISTER EARLY** - The Cryptography Mailing List U