Privacy-preserving collaborative data mining

Abstract

Privacy-preserving data mining is an important issue in the areas of data mining and security. In this paper, we study how to conduct association rule mining, one of the core data mining techniques, on private data in the following scenario: Multiple parties, each having a private data set, want to jointly conduct association rule mining without disclosing their private data to other parties. Because of the interactive nature among parties, developing a secure framework to achieve such a computation is both challenging and desirable. In this paper, we present a secure framework for multiple parties to conduct privacy-preserving association rule mining. © 2006 Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg.