Selecting potentially relevant records using re-identification methods

  • Authors:
  • Josep Domingo-Ferrer;Vicenç Torra

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. Comput. Eng. and Maths - ETSE, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Av Països Catalans 26, 43007 Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain;Institut d'Investigació en Intel-ligència Artifical - CSIC, Campus UAB s/n, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • New Generation Computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This work proposes re-identification algorithms to select records that are interesting from the point of view of giving new information. Instead of focusing on re-identified elements, we focus on non reidentified records (non linked records) as they are the ones that potentially supply new and relevant information. Moreover, these relevant characteristics can correspond to chances for improving the knowledge of a system.To evaluate our approach, we have applied it to a example using publicly available data from the UCI repository. We have used the data of the ionosphere data base to build a re-identification problem for 35 noncommon variables.We show that the use of a simple heuristic rule base can effectively select potentially interesting records.