9:00 Registration

9:45 Opening remarks

10:00 Foundations of Tabular Protection

• Chair: Luisa Franconi
• 10:00 - Survey on Methods for Tabular Data Protection in ARGUS
  Sarah Giessing
• 10:20 - Data Swapping: Variations on a Theme by Dalenius and Reiss
  Stephen E. Fienberg and Julie McIntyre
• 10:40 - Bounds for Cell Entries in Two-way Tables Given Conditional Relative Frequencies
  Aleksandra B. Slavkovic and Stephen E. Fienberg
• 11:00 - Discussion

11:15 Coffee break

11:45 Methods for Tabular Protection (I)

• Chair: Lawrence Cox
• 11:45 - A New Tool for Applying Controlled Rounding to a Statistical Table in Microsoft Excel
  Juan-José Salazar-González and Markus Schoch
• 12:05 - Getting the Best Results in Controlled Rounding with the Least Effort
  Juan-José Salazar-González, Philip Lowthian, Caroline Young, Giovanni Merola, Stephen Bond, and David Brown
• 12:25 - Computational Experiments with Minimum-Distance Controlled Perturbation Methods
  Jordi Castro
• 12:45 - Discussion

13:00 Lunch (on your own)

15:00 Methods for Tabular Protection (II)

• Chair: Sarah Giessing
• 15:00 - Balancing Quality and Confidentiality for Multivariate Tabular Data
  Lawrence H. Cox, James P. Kelly and Rahul Patil
• 15:20 - Reducing the Set of Tables t-ARGUS Considers in a Hierarchical Setting
  Peter-Paul de Wolf and Anneke Loeve
  
• 15:40 - Approaches to Identify the Amount of Publishable Information in Business Surveys through Waivers
  Jean-Sébastien Provençal, Hélène Bérard, Jean-Marc Fillion and Jean-Louis Tambay

16:00 Coffee

16:30 Methods for Tabular Protection (III)

• Chair: Anco Hundepool
• 16:30 - Maximum Utility-Minimum Information Loss Table Server Design for Statistical Disclosure Control of Tabular Data
  Ramesh A. Dandekar
• 16:50 - A Fast Network Flows Heuristic for Cell Suppression in Positive Tables
  Jordi Castro
  
• 17:10 - Discussion

17:30 Adjourn

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THURSDAY, JUNE 10

9:30 Masking for Microdata Protection (I)

• Chair: Jordi Castro
• 9:30 - On the Security of Noise Addition for Privacy in Statistical Databases
  Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Francesc Sebé and Jordi Castellà-Roca
• 9:50 - Microaggregation for Categorical Variables: A Median Based Approach
  Vicenç Torra
  
• 10:10 - Evaluating Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms for Microdata Protection
  Vicenç Torra and Sadaaki Miyamoto
  

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Masking for Microdata Protection (II)

• Chair: William Winkler
• 11:00 - To Blank or not to Blank? A Comparison of the Effects of Disclosure Limitation Methods on Nonlinear Regression Estimates
  Sandra Lechner and Winfried Pohlmeier
• 11:20 - Outlier Protection in Continuous Microdata Masking
  Josep M. Mateo-Sanz, Francesc Sebé and Josep Domingo-Ferrer
• 11:40 - Discussion

12:00 Risk in Microdata Protection (I)

• Chair: Luisa Franconi
• 12:00 - Re-identification Methods for Masked Microdata
  William E Winkler
• 12:20 - Masking and Re-identification Methods for Public-Use Microdata: Overview and Research Problems
  William E Winkler
• 12:40 - Matching the German Turnover Tax Statistics (supporting paper),
  Rainer Lenz and Daniel Vorgrimler
  
• 12:50 - Discussion

13:00 Lunch (on your own)

15:00 Risk in Microdata Protection (II)

Chair: Stephen Fienberg
15:00 - A Bayesian Hierarchical Model Approach to Risk Estimation in Statistical Disclosure Limitation
Silvia Polettini and Julian Stander

15:20 - Individual Risk Estimation in mArgus: A Review
Luisa Franconi and Sivia Polettini
15:40 - Analysis of Re-Identification Risk Based on Log-linear Models
Elsayed A. H. Elamir

16:00 - Discussion

16:20 Adjourn

19:30 Cocktail and buffet offered by IDESCAT. Venue:
Palau de Mar (Museum of History of Catalonia).

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FRIDAY, JUNE 11

9:30 Synthetic Data

• Chair: Ramesh Dandekar
• 9:30 - New Approaches to Confidentiality Protection: Synthetic Data, Remote Access and Research Data Centers
  John Abowd and Julia Lane
• 9:50 - Multiply-Imputing Confidential Characteristics ignorespaces and File Links in Longitudinal Linked Data
  John M. Abowd and Simon D. Woodcock
  
• 10:10 - Fast Generation of Accurate Synthetic Microdata
  Josep Maria Mateo-Sanz, Antoni Martínez-Ballesté and Josep Domingo-Ferrer
• 10:30 - Practical Viability of Multiple Imputation as a Tool for Disclosure Avoidance for Large Scale Recurring Surveys (supporting paper)
  Patricia J. Doyle and Yves Thibaudeau
  
• 10:40 - Discussion

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Software and Case Studies

• Chair: Julia Lane
• 11:30 - Trade-off Between Disclosure Risk and Information Loss Using Multivariate Microaggregation: A Case Study on Business Data
  Josep A. Sànchez, Julià Urrutia and Enric Ripoll
• 11:50 - The ARGUS Software in the CASC-Project
  Anco Hundepool
• 12:10 - Different Grades of Statistical Disclosure Control Correlated with German Statistics Law
  Thomas Wende
• 12:30 - Developing Adoptable Disclosure Protection Techniques: Lessons Learned from a U.S. Experience
  Nicholas H. Greenia
• 12:50 - Privacy Preserving and Data Mining in an On-Line Statistical Database of Additive Type
  Francesco M. Malvestuto and Mauro Mezzini
• 13:10 - Discussion

13:30 Closing remarks