PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES'2006 (PSD'2006)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Rome, Italy, Dec. 13-15, 2006
http://vneumann.etse.urv.es/psd2006
1. AIMS AND GOALS
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Privacy in statistical databases is about finding
tradeoffs to the tension between the increasing
societal and economical demand for accurate information
and the legal and ethical obligation to protect
the privacy of individuals and enterprises which are
the source of the statistical data. To put
it bluntly, statistical agencies cannot expect to
collect accurate information from individual or
corporate respondents unless these feel the privacy
of their responses is guaranteed; also, recent surveys
of web users show that a majority of these are unwilling
to provide data to a web site unless they know
that privacy protection measures are in place.
"Privacy in Statistical Databases'2006" (PSD'2006) is
the main conference of the CENEX-SDC project funded by Eurostat
and will be used to raise the awareness of SDC in
Europe and beyond.
PSD'2006 is regarded as a successor of PSD'2004
(http://vneumann.etse.urv.es/psd2004), the
the final conference of the CASC project (IST-2000-25069),
held in Barcelona on June 9-11, 2004 and with
proceedings published in Springer LNCS vol. 3050.
Those two PSD conferences follow a tradition of
high-quality technical conferences on SDC which started with
"Statistical Data Protection-SDP'98", held in Lisbon in 1998
and with proceedings published by OPOCE, and continued
with the AMRADS project SDC Workshop, held in Luxemburg
in 2001 and with proceedings published in Springer LNCS vol. 2316.
Like the aforementioned preceding conferences, PSD'2006 originates
at the EU, but wishes to stay a
worldwide event in SDC. Thus,
contributions and attendees from overseas are welcome.
2. ORGANIZATION
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
John Abowd (Cornell University and Census Bureau, USA)
Jordi Castro (Polytechnical University of Catalonia)
Lawrence Cox (Nat. Center for Health Statistics, USA)
Ramesh Dandekar (Energy Information Administration, USA)
Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia)
Mark Elliot (Manchester University, UK)
Luisa Franconi (ISTAT, Italy)
Sarah Giessing (Destatis, Germany)
Jobst Heitzig (Destatis, Germany)
Anco Hundepool (Statistics Netherlands)
Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Julia Lane (NORC/University of Chicago, USA)
Jane Longhurst (Office for National Statistics, UK)
Silvia Polettini (University of Naples, Italy)
Gerd Ronning (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Juan Jose Salazar (University of La Laguna, Spain)
Maria Joao Santos (EUROSTAT)
Eric Schulte-Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands)
Francesc Sebe (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia)
Chris Skinner (University of Southampton, UK)
Julian Stander (University of Plymouth, UK)
Vicenc Torra (IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia)
William E. Winkler (Census Bureau, USA)
PROGRAM CHAIR
Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia)
GENERAL CHAIR
Luisa Franconi (ISTAT, Italy)
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Xenia Caruso (ISTAT, Italy)
Jordi Castella-Roca (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia)
Maurizio Lucarelli (ISTAT, Italy)
Antoni Martinez-Balleste (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia)
Micaela Paciello (ISTAT, Italy)
3. TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- New SDC methods for tabular data
- New SDC methods for microdata
- Best SDC practices for tabular data
- Best SDC practices for microdata
- Onsite access centers
- Remote access facilities
- SDC software
- Estimating disclosure risk in SDC
- Record linkage methods
- Real-life disclosure scenarios in EU-member states and abroad
- Privacy preserving data mining
- Privacy in web-based e-commerce
- Privacy in healthcare
- Privacy in official and corporate statistics
4. SUBMISSIONS
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Both original technical contributions
and high-quality surveys on the above topics or on
related topics are sought.
A submission should be clearly
marked either as an original paper or a survey. Submissions
should contain a cover letter indicating:
1) whether the submission is a survey or an original
contribution;
2) the title of the submission;
3) keywords classifying the paper topic;
4) the names and affiliations of authors;
5) the e-mail, telephone and facsimile numbers of the
contact author.
The submission itself should be sent as an attached
PDF file. Submission and their cover letters should
be sent to
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Camera-ready versions of
accepted papers should be prepared using the LaTeX2e
style or the Word template
of Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer
Science. For LaTeX2e,
a macro package llncs.zip and an example
file typeinst.zip can be downloaded from
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html
For Microsoft Word, a template word.zip can be
downloaded from the same page above.
We encourage authors to use the above formats already
for their submissions.
LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS.
Using the above format with 11 point font, the paper
should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography
and appendices, and at most 16 pages total.
Committee members are not required to read appendices;
the paper should be intelligible without them.
Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk
rejection without consideration of their merits.
5. PROCEEDINGS
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Among PSD'2006 accepted papers, a selection
will be made based on quality and coverage and
the selected papers will be published in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer.
This follows the tradition of PSD'2004 (LNCS 3050) and the
AMRADS Workshop on SDC (LNCS 2316).
The remaining accepted papers will be published in a CD with an ISBN.
It is possible to submit a paper directly for the CD, which
benefits from a later submission deadline (see CD-only dates below).
The form of publication of an accepted paper will be clearly
specified in the acceptance message.
Both the LNCS volume and the CD will be *available at the conference*.
5. IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: June 30, 2006
Acceptance notification: July 31, 2006
Proceedings version due: Sep. 1, 2006
Conference: Dec. 13-15, 2006.
CD-only submission deadline: Sep. 25, 2006
CD-only acceptance notification: Oct. 10, 2006
CD-only proceedings version due: Oct. 25, 2006
6. VENUE AND TRAVEL
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The conference will take place on Dec. 13-15, 2006
at the ISTAT headquarters, Via C. Balbo 14, 00184 Rome.
Travel and accomodation information will be posted
at http://vneumann.etse.urv.es/psd2006
7. REGISTRATION
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Registration information will be posted
at http://vneumann.etse.urv.es/psd2006
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