Mining Frequent Patterns Securely in Distributed System

摘要

Data mining across different companies, organizations, online shops, or the likes is necessary so as to discover valuable shared patterns, associations, trends, or dependencies in their shared data. Privacy, however, is a concern. In many situations it is required that data mining should be conducted without any privacy being violated. In response to this requirement, in this paper we propose an effective distributed privacy-preserving data mining approach called SDDM. SDDM is characterized by its ability to resist collusion. Unless the number of colluding sites in a distributed system is larger than or equal to 4, privacy cannot be violated. Results of performance study demonstrated the effectiveness of SDDM.