Workshop: Privacy in Statistical Databases'2004

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PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES'2004 (PSD'2004)
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Barcelona, Catalonia, June 9-11, 2004

http://vneumann.etse.urv.es/psd2004


1. AIMS AND GOALS
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Privacy in statistical databases is about finding
tradeoffs to the tension between the increasing
societal and economical demand for accurate information
and the legal and ethical obligation to protect
the privacy of individuals and enterprises which are
the source of the statistical data. To put
it bluntly, statistical agencies cannot expect to
collect accurate information from individual or
corporate respondents unless these feel the privacy
of their responses is guaranteed; also, recent surveys
of web users show that a majority of these are unwilling
to provide data to a web site unless they know
that privacy protection measures are in place.

"Privacy in Statistical Databases'2004" (PSD'2004)
is the final conference of the CASC project ("Computational
Aspects of Statistical Confidentiality", IST-2000-25069).
PSD'2004 is in the style of the following conferences:
"Statistical Data Protection", held in Lisbon in 1998 and
with proceedings published by the Office of Official
Publications of the EC, and also the AMRADS project
SDC Workshop, held in Luxemburg in 2001 and with proceedings
published in Springer LNCS vol. 2316.

2. ORGANIZATION
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nabil Adam (CIMIC, Rutgers University, USA)
Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden, USA)
David Brown (ONS, UK)
Jordi Castro (Polytechnical University of Catalonia)
Lawrence Cox (Nat. Center for Health Statistics, USA)
Ramesh Dandekar (EIA, USA)
Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Luisa Franconi (ISTAT, Italy)
Sarah Giessing (Destatis, Germany)
Anco Hundepool (Statistics Netherlands)
Julia Lane (Urban Institute, USA)
Josep M. Mateo-Sanz (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)
William E. Winkler (Census Bureau, USA)
Laura Zayatz (Census Bureau, USA)

PROGRAM CHAIR

Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)
Vicenc Torra (IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia)

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Antoni Martinez-Balleste (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)
Julia Urrutia (IDESCAT, Catalonia)
Francesc Sebe (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)

ORGANIZATION CHAIR

Enric Ripoll (IDESCAT, Catalonia)


3. SUBMISSIONS
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Topics of interest of the conference include but
are not limited to:

- Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC)
- New SDC methods for tabular data
- New SDC methods for microdata
- Estimating disclosure risk in SDC
- Record linkage
- Privacy preserving data mining
- Privacy in on-line databases
- Privacy in web-based e-commerce
- Privacy in official statistics
- Privacy in healthcare
- Privacy in business statistics

Both original technical contributions
and high-quality surveys on the above topics or on
related topics are sought.

A submission should be clearly
marked either as an original paper or a survey. Submissions
should contain a cover letter indicating:
1) whether the submission is a survey or an original
contribution;
2) the title of the submission;
3) keywords classifying the paper topic;
4) the names and affiliations of authors;
5) the e-mail, telephone and facsimile numbers of the
contact author.
The submission itself should be sent as an attached
PDF file. Submission and their cover letters should
be sent to

psd2004@etse.urv.es

Camera-ready versions of
accepted papers should be prepared using the LaTeX2e
style or the Word template
of Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer
Science. For LaTeX2e,
a macro package llncs.zip and an example
file typeinst.zip can be downloaded from
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html

For Microsoft Word, a template word.zip can be
downloaded from the same page above.

We encourage authors to use the above formats already
for their submissions.

LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS.
Using the above format with 11 point font, the paper
should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography
and appendices, and at most 16 pages total.
Committee members are not required to read appendices;
the paper should be intelligible without them.
Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk
rejection without consideration of their merits.

4. PROCEEDINGS
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Proceedings will be available at the conference
and will be published through
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

5. IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: January 31, 2004
Acceptance notification: March 1, 2004
Proceedings version due: March 15, 2004
Conference: June 9-11, 2004

6. VENUE AND TRAVEL
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The conference will take place on June 9-11, 2004 in
downtown Barcelona, in the Auditorium of the
Escola d'Administracio Publica de Catalunya,
carrer Girona 20, E-08010 Barcelona

Travel and accomodation information is posted
at http://vneumann.etse.urv.es/psd2004

7. REGISTRATION
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Registration information will be posted
at http://vneumann.etse.urv.es/psd2004