Traian Marius Truta

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests
Data Privacy and Anonymity, Data Mining, Statistical Databases, Disclosure Control, Spatial Databases.


Publications

Xiaoxun Sun, Hua Wang, Jiuyong Li,Traian Marius Truta, “Enhanced P-Sensitive K-Anonymity Models for Privacy Preserving Data Publishing,” Transactions on Data Privacy Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp. 53 – 66, 2008.

Alina Campan, Traian Marius Truta, “A Clustering Approach for Data and Structural Anonymity in Social Networks,” 2nd ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD2008), In Conjunction with the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008 - Yahoo! Research Best Paper Award at PinKDD 2008

Xiaoxun Sun, Hua Wang, Jiuyong Li,Traian Marius Truta,  Ping Li, “(p+, α)-Sensitive k-Anonymity: A New Enhanced Privacy Protection Model,” IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2008), Sydney, Australia, pp. 59 – 64, 2008

John Miller, Alina Campan, Traian Marius Truta, “Constrained K-Anonymity: Privacy with Generalization Boundaries,” International Workshop on Practical Preserving Data Mining (P3DM2008), In Conjunction with SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Atlanta, Georgia, 2008

Scot Cunningham, Traian Marius Truta, “Protecting Privacy in Recorded Conversations,” International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2008), In Conjunction with 11th International Conference of Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Nantes, France, 2008

Traian Marius Truta, Alina Campan, Michael Abrinica, John Miller, “A Comparison between Local and Global Recoding Algorithms for Achieving Microdata P-Sensitive K-Anonymity,”  Acta Universitatis Apulensis, Alba Iulia, Romania, No. 15, pp. 213 – 233, 2008

Traian Marius Truta, Alina Campan, Paul Meyer “Generating Microdata with P-Sensitive K-Anonymity Property,”  The 4th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM2007), Vienna, Austria, pp. 124 – 141, 2007

Alina Campan, Traian Marius Truta, John Miller, Raluca Sinca, “A Clustering Approach for Achieving Data Privacy,”  The 2007 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 321 – 327, 2007

Traian Marius Truta, Alina Campan, “k-Anonymization Incremental Maintenance and Optimization Techniques,”  ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2007), special track on Data Mining, Seoul, Korea, pp. 380 – 387, 2007

Alina Campan, Traian Marius Truta, “Extended P-Sensitive K-Anonymity,” Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Informatica, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 19 – 30, 2006

Alina Campan, Gabriela Serban, Traian Marius Truta, Andrian Marcus, “An Algorithm for the Discovery of Arbitrary Length Ordinal Association Rules,”  The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN2006), Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 107 – 113, 2006

Traian Marius Truta, Bindu Vinay, “Privacy Protection: p-Sensitive k-Anonymity Property,” International Workshop of Privacy Data Management  (PDM2006), In Conjunction with 22th International Conference of Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, Georgia, 2006

Traian Marius Truta, Farshad Fotouhi, Daniel Barth-Jones, “Global Disclosure Risk for Microdata with Continuous Attributes,” book chapter in “Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross Disciplinary Conversation”, ISBN: 0-387-26050-1, pp. 349 – 364, Springer, 2006

Traian Marius Truta, Farshad Fotouhi, Daniel Barth-Jones, “Global Disclosure Risk Measures and k-Anonymity Property for Microdata,” Acta Universitatis Apulensis, Alba Iulia, Romania, No. 11, pp. 149 – 169, 2006

Madalina Valeanu, Traian Marius Truta, “Integrity Aspects in Distributed Databases,” Journal of Applied Medical Informatics, Vol. 17, No 3, pp. 42 – 47, Romania, 4/2005

Traian Marius Truta, Farshad Fotouhi, Daniel Barth-Jones, “Assessing Global Disclosure Risk Measures in Masked Microdata,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy and Electronic Society (WPES2004), In Conjunction with 11th ACM CCS, Washington DC, pp. 85 – 93, 2004

Traian Marius Truta, Farshad Fotouhi, Daniel Barth-Jones, “Disclosure Risk Measures for Sampling Disclosure Control Method,” Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2004), special track on Computer Applications in Health Care (COMPAHEC2004), Nicosia, Cyprus, pp. 301 – 306, 2004

Traian Marius Truta, Farshad Fotouhi, Daniel Barth-Jones, “Automatic Generation of Masked Microdata,” Acta Universitatis Apulensis, Alba Iulia, Romania, No. 6, pp. 117 – 137, 2003

Traian Marius Truta, Farshad Fotouhi, Daniel Barth-Jones, “Privacy and Confidentiality Management for the Microaggregation Disclosure Control Method,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy and Electronic Society (WPES2003), In Conjunction with 10th ACM CCS, Washington DC, pp. 21 – 30, 2003

Traian Marius Truta, Farshad Fotouhi, Daniel Barth-Jones, “Disclosure Risk Measures for Microdata,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM2003), Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 15 – 22, 2003


Thesis and Technical Reports

Adaptive Disclosure Control for Healthcare Microdata,” Ph. D. Thesis, advisors: Dr. Farshad Fotouhi, and Dr. Barth-Jones, May 2004

Analysis and Design Methods in Distributed Systems,” Master Thesis, advisor Dr. Grigor Moldovan, June 1999

Reverse Engineering – analysis and representation,” License Thesis, advisor Dr. Grigor Moldovan, June 1998


Presentations, Posters and Invited Talks

Privacy in Social Networks,CINSAM’s Fifth Friday Research Poster Session, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, September 2008

A Clustering Approach for Data and Structural Anonymity in Social Networks,” 2nd ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD2008), In Conjunction with the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2008

Models and Algorithms for Data Privacy,” Karen Duda Lecture Series Invited Speaker, Youngstown State University, Youngstown , Ohio, April 2008

Constrained K-Anonymity: Privacy with Generalization Boundaries,” International Workshop on Practical Preserving Data Mining (P3DM2008), In Conjunction with SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Atlanta, Georgia, April 2008

Protecting Privacy in Recorded Conversations,” International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2008), In Conjunction with 11th International Conference of Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Nantes, France, March 2008

New Privacy Protection Models,” 3th Annual Kentucky EPSCoR Statewide Conference, Lexington Convention Center, Lexington, Kentucky, October 2007

Generating Microdata with P-Sensitive K-Anonymity Property,” VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM2007), Vienna, Austria, September 2007

New Privacy Protection Models,CINSAM’s Fifth Friday Research Poster Session, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, September 2007

k-Anonymization Incremental Maintenance and Optimization Techniques,” ACM Symposium of Applied Computing (SAC2007), Seoul, South Korea, March 2007

Data Anonymity Models and Algorithms,” CINSAM’s Fifth Friday Research Poster Session, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, September 2006

Data Anonymity Models and Algorithms,” Research Seminar Series, College of Informatics, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, September 2006

 “Privacy Protection: p-Sensitive k-Anonymity Property,” International Workshop of Privacy Data Management  (PDM2006), In Conjunction with 22th International Conference of Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006

 “Global Disclosure Risk Measures and k-Anonymity Property for Microdata,” International Conference on Mathematics and Informatics (ICTAMI2005), Albac, Romania, September 2005

Assessing Global Disclosure Risk Measures in Masked Microdata,” Workshop on Privacy and Electronic Society (WPES2004), Washington DC, October 2004

Global Disclosure Risk for Microdata with Continuous Attributes,” Symposium on Privacy and Identity: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Age (CPILIT2004), Chicago, October 2004

Adaptive Disclosure Control for Healthcare Microdata,” Ph. D. Thesis Defense, advisors: Dr. Farshad Fotouhi, and Dr. Barth-Jones, May 2004

Disclosure Risk Measures for Microdata,” Graduate Research Seminar, Invited Speaker, Wayne State University, Detroit, April 2004

 “Privacy and Confidentiality Management for the Microaggregation Disclosure Control Method,” Workshop on Privacy and Electronic Society (WPES2003), Washington DC, October 2003

Disclosure Risk Measures for Microdata,” International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM2003), Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2003

Adaptive Disclosure Control for Healthcare Microdata,” Ph. D. Prospectus Defense, advisor Dr. Farshad Fotouhi, May 2002

Analysis and Design Methods in Distributed Systems,” Master Thesis Defense, advisor Dr. Grigor Moldovan, June 1999

Reverse Engineering – analysis and representation,” License Thesis Defense, advisor Dr. Grigor Moldovan, June 1998


Other Professional Activities

Program Co-Chair, Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in Information Society (PAIS 2009) in Conjunction with EDBT / ICDT, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2009

Tutorial Co-Organizer, Statistical De-identification of Confidential Health Data with Application to the HIPAA Privacy Regulations Tutorial Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, 2009

Program Committee, The IEEE 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-09), Bradford, United Kingdom, 2009

Program Co-Chair, Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in Information Society (PAIS 2008) in Conjunction with EDBT, Nantes, France, 2008

Program Committee, The 2008 IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Pervasive Applications (TSP 2008), Shanghai, China, 2008

Program Committee, The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN2008), Las Vegas, NV, 2008

Program Committee, The IEEE Workshop on Data Mining in Medicine 2007 (DMMed 2007) in Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2007), Omaha, NE, 2007

Program Committee, The 2007 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN2007), Las Vegas, NV, 2007

Reviewer, Journal of Computer Security, 2008

Reviewer, Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE, 2008

Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM), 2008

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Journal, 2006

Reviewer, The 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine, 2006