[Abstract]: Privacy is today an important concern for both data providers and data users. Data generalization can provide signicant protection of an individual's privacy, which means the data value can be replaced by a less specic but semantically consistent value and the personal information...

Meta-Heuristics: Advances and Trends in Local Search Paradigms for Optimizations comprises a carefully refereed selection of extended versions of the best papers presented at the Second Meta-Heuristics Conference (MIC 97). The selected articles describe the most recent developments in theory and...