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Digital Government:
Technical Reports

A Comparison of String Distance Metrics for Name-Matching Tasks
William W. Cohen, Pradeep Ravikumar and Stephen E. Fienberg

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Data Swapping: A Risk-Utility Framework
and Web Service Implementation
Shanti Gomatam, Alan F. Karr, Chunhua "Charlie" Liu, and Ashish P. Sanil
Presented at dgo.2003

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A Risk-Utility Framework for Categorical Data Swapping
Shanti Gomatam, Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil
Submitted to Journal of Official Statistics

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Preserving Confidentiality of High-dimensional Tabulated Data:
Statistical and Computational Issues
Adrian Dobra, Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil
To Appear in Special Issue of Statistics and Computing on Confidentiality

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NISS WebSwap: A Web Service for Data Swapping
Ashish Sanil, Shanti Gomatam and Alan F. Karr
Journal of Statistical Software  8(7)

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Software Systems for Tabular Data Releases
Alan F. Karr, Adrian Dobra, Ashish P. Sanil, Stephen E. Fienberg
International Journal on Uncertainty Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems 10(5), 529-544,2002

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A Divide-and-Conquer Algorithm for Generating
Markov Bases of Multi-way Tables

Adrian Dobra and Seth Sullivant

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Bounds for Cell Entries in Contingency Tables
Induced by Fixed Marginal Totals
with Applications to Disclosure Limitation

Adrian Dobra and Stephen E. Fienberg
Statistical Journal of the United Nations ECE 18 (2001) 363–371

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Web Systems That Disseminate Information
But Protect Confidential Data
Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil
To appear in Proc. Internat. Assoc. Survey Statist.

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Disclosure Risk vs. Data Utility: The R-U Confidentiality Map
George T. Duncan, Sallie A. Keller-McNulty and S. Lynne Stokes
Submitted to Management Science

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Table Servers: Protecting Confidentiality in Tabular Data Releases
Alan F. Karr, Adrian Dobra and Ashish P. Sanil

Submitted to the special issue of the Communications of the ACM on digital government, scheduled for January, 2003

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Confidentiality and Data Protection through Disclosure Limitation:
Evolving Principles and Technical Advances

Stephen E. Fienberg
The Philippine Statistician 49 1-12

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Project-Generated Papers from the Special Issue of
Research in Official Statistics
on Bayesian Methods in Official Statistics

Uniqueness and Disclosure Risk:
Urn Models and Simulation

S. E. Fienberg and U. E. Makov
Research in Official Statistics 4 (2001) 23-40

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Analysis of Aggregated Data in Survey Sampling
with Application to Fertilizer/Pesticide Usage Surveys

J. Lee, C. Holloman, A. F. Karr and A. P. Sanil
Research in Official Statistics 4 (2001) 101-116

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A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Data Disclosure Problems
M. Trottini
Research in Official Statistics 4 (2001) 7-22

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Disclosure Limitation Methods and Information Loss
for Tabular Data

George T. Duncan, Stephen E. Fienberg, Ramayya Krishnan,
Rema Padman and Stephen F. Roehrig
Pages 135-166 in
Confidentiality, Disclosure and Data Access:
Theory and Practical Applications for Statistical Agencies,
P. Doyle, J. Lane, J. Theeuwes, and L. Zayatz, eds.,
Elsevier, Amsterdam

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U.S. Census Confidentiality: Perceptions and Reality
Stephen E. Fienberg and Margo Anderson

To appear in the Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute

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Web-Based Systems that Disseminate Information
from Data but Protect Confidentiality

Alan F. Karr, Jaeyong Lee, Ashish P. Sanil,
Joel Hernandez, Sousan Karimi and Karen Litwin
To appear in Advances in Digital Government
A. Elmagarmid and W. McIver, eds.
Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Web-Based Systems that Disseminate Information
but Protect Confidential Data

Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil
Presented at dg.o 2001

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Bounds for Cell Entries in Contingency Tables
Induced by Fixed Marginal Totals

Adrian Dobra and Stephen E. Fienberg

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Bounds for Cell Entries in Contingency Tables
Given Marginal Totals and Decomposable Graphs

Adrian Dobra and Stephen E. Fienberg
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97(22), October 24, 2000, 11885-11892

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Web-Based Systems that Disseminate Information from Data
But Preserve Confidentiality

Alan Karr, Jaeyong Lee, Ashish Sanil, Joel Hernandez, Sousan Karimi and Karen Litwin

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Disseminating Information but Protecting Confidentiality
Alan Karr, Jaeyong Lee, Ashish Sanil, Joel Hernandez, Sousan Karimi, Karen Litwin
IEEE Computer 34(2) (2001) 36-37.

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Bayesian Insights on Disclosure Limitation: Mask or Impute?
George T. Duncan and Sallie A. Keller-McNulty
Submitted to the Proceedings of ISBA 2000

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