March 15: Traian Marius Truta, Li Xiong (Emory University), and Alfredo Cuzzocrea (University of Trieste) will co-organize the nineth edition of the International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2016). The workshop was part of the EDBT/ICDT2016 conferences, Bordeaux, France.

April 25: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper Fast Dominating Sets Algorithms for Social Networks at the Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS 2015), Greensboro, North Carolina.

March 27: Traian Marius Truta, Li Xiong (Emory University), and Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University) co-organized the eight edition of the International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2015). The workshop was part of the EDBT/ICDT2015 conferences, Brussels, Belgium.

April 25: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper Community Detection in Anonymized Social Networks at the International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2014), Athens, Greece.

March 28: Traian Marius Truta, Li Xiong (Emory University), and Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University) co-organized the seventh edition of the International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2014). The workshop was part of the EDBT/ICDT2014 conferences, Athens (Greece).

September 9: Alina Campan presented the paper Preservation of Centrality Measures in Anonymized Social Networks at the International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2013), Washington DC.

March 22: Traian Marius Truta, Li Xiong (Emory University), and Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University) co-organized the sixth edition of the International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2013). The workshop was part of the EDBT/ICDT2013 conferences, Genoa, Italy.

October 29: Traian Marius Truta had an invited presentation titled “Preservation of Structural Properties in Anonymized Social Networks” at the Graduate Research Seminar, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

October 15: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper Preservation of Structural Properties in Anonymized Social Networks at the Collaborative Communities for Social Computing Workshop (CCSocialComp 2012), Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

April 22: Traian Marius Truta had an invited presentation titled “K-Anonymity in Social Networks: A Clustering Approach” at the 23 Mid-West Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS2012), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

April 11: Traian Marius Truta had an invited presentation titled “K-Anonymity in Social Networks: A Clustering Approach” at the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) Research Seminar, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

March 30: Traian Marius Truta, Li Xiong (Emory University), and Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University) co-organized the fifth edition of the International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2012). The workshop was part of the EDBT/ICDT2012 conferences, Berlin, Germany.

September 2: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper On-the-Fly Generalization Hierarchies for Numerical Attributes Revisited at the VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM2011), Seattle, Washington.

March 25: Traian Marius Truta, Li Xiong (Emory University), and Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University) co-organized the fourth edition of the International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2011). The workshop was part of the EDBT/ICDT2011 conferences, Uppsala (Sweden).

November 9: Traian Marius Truta had an invited presentation titled “Data and Structural K-Anonymity in Social Networks” at the Graduate Research Seminar, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

September 17: Nicholas Cooper presented the paper On-the-Fly Generalization Hierarchies for Numerical Attributes at the VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM2010), Singapore.

September 2: Alina Campan and Traian Marius Truta presented the poster User-Controlled Generalization Boundaries for P-Sensitive K-Anonymity at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2010), special track on Data Mining, Sierre, Switzerland.

March 22: Traian Marius Truta, Li Xiong (Emory University), and Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University) co-organized the third edition of the International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2010). The workshop was part of the EDBT/ICDT2010 conferences, Lausanne (Switzerland).

July 13: Roy Ford presented the paper P-Sensitive K-Anonymity for Social Networks at the International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN2009), In Conjunction with WORLDCOMP2009, Las Vegas, Nevada.

April 30 - May 1: Daniel-Barth Jones (Columbia University), Alina Campan and Traian Marius Truta co-organized a tutorial entitled Statistical De-identification of Confidential Health Data with Application to the HIPAA Privacy Regulations, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. As part of this tutorial Traian Marius Truta held the following presentations: Overview of Statistical Disclosure Control and Privacy-Preserving Data Mining and De-identifying Health Data: Measuring and Controlling Disclosure Risk. Alina Campan presented Emerging Privacy Threats for Health Data.

March 22: Traian Marius Truta, Li Xiong (Emory University), and Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University) co-organized the second edition of the International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2009). The workshop was part of the EDBT/ICDT2009 conferences, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

August 24: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper A Clustering Approach for Data and Structural Anonymity in Social Networks at the International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD2008). The workshop was part of the KDD2008, Las Vegas, Nevada.

April 26: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper Constrained K-Anonymity: Privacy with Generalization Boundaries at the International Workshop on Practical Preserving Data Mining (P3DM2008). The workshop was part of the SDM2008, Atlanta, Georgia.

March 29: Farshad Fotouhi (Wayne State University), Li Xiong (Emory University), and Traian Marius Truta co-organized the second edition of the International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2008). The workshop was part of the EDBT2008, Nantes, France.

March 29: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper Protecting Privacy in Recorded Conversations at the International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2008). The workshop was part of the EDBT2008, Nantes, France.

November 15: Scot Cunningham successfully defended his MS Thesis Protecting Privacy in Recorded Conversations, Northern Kentucky University, USA. Click here for the official announcement.

September 24: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper Generating Microdata with P-Sensitive K-Anonymity Property at the VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM2007). The workshop was part of the VLDB2007, Vienna, Austria.

June 26: John Miller presented the paper A Clustering Approach for Achieving Data Privacy at the International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN2007), In Conjunction with WORLDCOMP2007, Las Vegas, Nevada.

March 13: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper k-Anonymization Incremental Maintenance and Optimization Techniques at the ACM Symposium of Applied Computing (SAC2007), Seoul, South Korea.

March 13: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper Privacy Protection: p-Sensitive k-Anonymity Property at the International Workshop of Privacy Data Management (PDM2006). The workshop was part of the ICDE2006, Atlanta, Georgia.

September 16: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper Global Disclosure Risk Measures and k-Anonymity Property for Microdata at the International Conference on Mathematics and Informatics (ICTAMI2005), Albac, Romania.

October 28: Traian Marius Truta presented the paper Assessing Global Disclosure Risk Measures in Masked Microdata at the Workshop on Privacy and Electronic Society (WPES2004). The workshop was part of the CCS2004, Washington DC.

October 15: Traian Marius Truta presented the book chapter Global Disclosure Risk for Microdata with Continuous Attributes at the Symposium on Privacy and Identity: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Age (CIPLIT2004), Chicago, October 2004.