An agent based privacy preserving mining for distributed databases

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel paradigm of privacy preserving mining for distributed databases. The paradigm includes an agent-based approach for distributed learning of a decision tree to fully analyze data located at several distributed sites without revealing any information at each site. The distributed decision tree approach has been developed from the well-known decision tree algorithm, for the distributed and privacy preserving data mining process. It is performed on the agent based architecture dealing with distributed databases in a collaborative fashion. This approach is very useful to be applied to a variety of domains which require information security and privacy during data mining process. © Springer-Verlag 2004.