An important issue any organization or individual has to face when managing data containing sensitive information, is the risk that can be incurred when releasing such data. Even though data may be sanitized, before being released, it is still possible for an adversary to reconstruct the...

Dealing with sensitive data has been the focus of much of recent research. On one hand data disclosure may incur some risk due to security breaches, but on the other hand data sharing has many advantages. For example, revealing customer transactions at a grocery store may be beneficial when...

Artful business processes are informal processes typically carried out by those people whose work is mental rather than physical (managers, professors, researchers, etc.), the so called "knowledge workers". In this paper we outline how to automatically build, on top of a collection of e-mail...

Record Linkage (RL) aims at identifying pairs of records coming from different sources and representing the same real world object. Despite several methods have been proposed to face RL problems, none of them seems to be at the same time fully automated and very effective. In this paper we...

The combined use of statistical and administrative sources allow to save time and money, reducing survey costs, response burden, etc.; sometimes data sources are hard to integrate since errors or lacking information in the record identifiers may complicate this process. The purpose of record...