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Sanitizing sensitive association rules using fuzzy correlation scheme.

Author(s)
Sonia Hameed Department of Computer Science, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan
F. Shahzad Department of Computer Science, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan
S. Asghar Institute of Information Technology, PMAS University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Abstract
Data mining is used to extract useful information hidden in the data. Sometimes this extraction of information leads to revealing sensitive information. Privacy preservation in Data Mining is a process of sanitizing sensitive information. This research focuses on sanitizing sensitive rules discovered in quantitative data. The proposed scheme, Privacy Preserving in Fuzzy Association Rules (PPFAR) is based on fuzzy correlation analysis. In this work, fuzzy set concept is integrated with fuzzy correlation analysis and Apriori algorithm to mark interesting fuzzy association rules. The identified rules are called sensitive. For sanitization, we use modification technique where we substitute maximum value of fuzzy items with zero, which occurs most frequently. Experiments demonstrate that PPFAR method hides sensitive rules with minimum modifications. The technique also maintains the modified data’s quality. The PPFAR scheme has applications in various domains e. g. temperature control, medical analysis, travel time prediction, genetic behavior prediction etc. We have validated the results on medical dataset.
Publication Details
Page(s) 359-367
DOI DOI not available
Published Journal: Nucleus, Volume: 50, Issue: 4, Year: 2013

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