Optimal Privacy-Aware Path in Hippocratic Databases

Abstract. Privacy becomes a major concern for both customers and enterprises in today’s corporate marketing strategies, many research efforts have been put into developing new privacy-aware technologies. Among them, Hippocratic databases are one of the important mechanisms to guarantee the respect of privacy principles in data management, which adopt purpose as a central concept associated with each piece of data stored in the databases. The proposed mechanism provides basic principles for future database systems protecting privacy of data as a founding tenet. However, Hippocratic databases do not allow to distinguish which particular method is used for fulfilling a purpose. Especially, the issues like purpose hierarchies, task delegations and minimal privacy cost are missing from the proposed mechanism. In this paper, we extend these mechanisms in order to support interorganizational business processes in Hippocratic databases. A comprehensive approach for negotiation of personal ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: DASFAA
• Authors: Min Li, Xiaoxun Sun, Hua Wang, Yanchun Zhang
• Keywords: DASFAA 2009, Database, Hippocratic Databases, Minimal Privacy Cost, Privacy