@inproceedings{bc53348b2f534260a7a56122f09863a8,
title = "Answering Multiple Aggregate Queries under a Specific Privacy Condition",
abstract = "We consider a real web tool where a bank allows clients to make aggregate queries on the market share of some subset of businesses, in a specific geographic area and all belonging to the same kind of business (e.g. restaurants). A single query is positively answered if a specific basic privacy condition is satisfied by the individual market shares of the involved businesses. A more serious problem appears when multiple queries are allowed: the combination of queries which individually satisfy the basic privacy condition may lead to aggregate information of some subset of businesses which does not satisfy this condition. We give a mathematical formalization of this problem and a possible algorithmic solution, which consists in an off-line phase, run only once, and an on-line phase which is run for each new query. We analyze the complexity of the proposed algorithms and we describe the experimental results that we have obtained with the implementation of such algorithms, run on real data.",
keywords = "Credit card payments, Privacy, Question answering",
author = "Jordi Aranda and J. Nin and Javier Herranz",
note = "Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The work of the third author was partially supported by project MTM2016-77213-R of Spanish Ministry MINECO. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 42nd IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2018 ; Conference date: 23-07-2018 Through 27-07-2018",
year = "2018",
month = jun,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1109/COMPSAC.2018.00099",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "661--666",
editor = "Chung-Horng Lung and Thomas Conte and Ling Liu and Toyokazu Akiyama and Kamrul Hasan and Edmundo Tovar and Hiroki Takakura and William Claycomb and Stelvio Cimato and Ji-Jiang Yang and Zhiyong Zhang and Ahamed, {Sheikh Iqbal} and Sorel Reisman and Claudio Demartini and Motonori Nakamura",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2018 IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2018",
address = "United States",
}