Privacy Protection in Distributed Data Mining

信息和通信技术(ICT)极大地改变了世界的社会和经济格局。“从数据到知识”是澳大利亚国家信息和通信技术公司认识到的优先挑战之一。然而，隐私方面的担忧可能会阻碍这一目标的实现。该项目旨在实现从数据到知识的转变，同时不侵犯来自不同各方拥有的分布式资源的数据的隐私。该项目的成果将为隐私保护分布式数据挖掘的研究开辟新的方向，并适用于澳大利亚反恐和国土防务从隐私敏感数据中检测生物恐怖主义。

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has dramatically altered the world's social and economic landscape. 'From data to knowledge' is one of the priority challenges recognized by National ICT Australia. However, privacy concerns may prevent it from realization. This project aims to fulfil 'from data to knowledge' without breaching privacy of data from distributed resources held by different parties. The outcomes of this project will create new directions in the research of privacy-preserving distributed data mining and are applicable to Australian counter-terrorism and homeland defence in detecting bio-terrorism from privacy sensitive data.