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A uniformization-based approach to preserve individuals' privacy during process mining analyses

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    Identificador: imarina:9150983
    Autores:
    Batista, EdgarSolanas, Agusti
    Resumen:
    Process Mining is a set of techniques that aim at discovering, monitoring and improving real processes by using logs of events created and stored by corporate information systems. The growing use of information and communication technologies and the imminent wide deployment of the Internet of Things enable the massive collection of events, which are going to be studied so as to improve all kinds of systems efficiency. Despite its enormous benefits, analyzing event logs might endanger individuals privacy, especially when those logs contain personal and confidential information, such as healthcare data. This article contributes to an emerging research direction within the process mining field, known as Privacy-Preserving Process Mining (PPPM), which embraces the privacy-by-design principle when conducting process mining analyses. We show that current solutions based on pseudonyms and encryption are vulnerable to attacks based on the analysis of the distribution of events combined with well-known location-oriented attacks such as the restricted space identification and the object identification attacks. With the aim to counteract these attacks, we present u-PPPM, a novel privacy-preserving process mining technique based on the uniformization of events distributions. This approach protects the privacy of the individuals appearing in event logs while minimizing the information loss during process discovery analyses. Experimental results, conducted using six real-life event logs, demonstrate the feasibility of our approach in real settings.
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    Autor según el artículo: Batista, Edgar; Solanas, Agusti
    Departamento: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
    Autor/es de la URV: Batista De Frutos, Edgar / Solanas Gómez, Agustín
    Palabras clave: Uniformization strategies Process mining Privacy-preserving process mining Privacy Distribution-based attacks
    Resumen: Process Mining is a set of techniques that aim at discovering, monitoring and improving real processes by using logs of events created and stored by corporate information systems. The growing use of information and communication technologies and the imminent wide deployment of the Internet of Things enable the massive collection of events, which are going to be studied so as to improve all kinds of systems efficiency. Despite its enormous benefits, analyzing event logs might endanger individuals privacy, especially when those logs contain personal and confidential information, such as healthcare data. This article contributes to an emerging research direction within the process mining field, known as Privacy-Preserving Process Mining (PPPM), which embraces the privacy-by-design principle when conducting process mining analyses. We show that current solutions based on pseudonyms and encryption are vulnerable to attacks based on the analysis of the distribution of events combined with well-known location-oriented attacks such as the restricted space identification and the object identification attacks. With the aim to counteract these attacks, we present u-PPPM, a novel privacy-preserving process mining technique based on the uniformization of events distributions. This approach protects the privacy of the individuals appearing in event logs while minimizing the information loss during process discovery analyses. Experimental results, conducted using six real-life event logs, demonstrate the feasibility of our approach in real settings.
    Áreas temáticas: Telecommunications Software Engenharias iv Computer science, information systems Computer networks and communications Ciência da computação
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Direcció de correo del autor: edgar.batista@urv.cat edgar.batista@urv.cat agusti.solanas@urv.cat
    Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-4881-6215
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-10-26
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
    Enlace a la fuente original: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12083-020-01059-1
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Peer-To-Peer Networking And Applications. 14 (3): 1500-1519
    Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Batista, Edgar; Solanas, Agusti (2021). A uniformization-based approach to preserve individuals' privacy during process mining analyses. Peer-To-Peer Networking And Applications, 14(3), 1500-1519. DOI: 10.1007/s12083-020-01059-1
    DOI del artículo: 10.1007/s12083-020-01059-1
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2021
    Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
  • Palabras clave:

    Computer Networks and Communications,Computer Science, Information Systems,Software,Telecommunications
    Uniformization strategies
    Process mining
    Privacy-preserving process mining
    Privacy
    Distribution-based attacks
    Telecommunications
    Software
    Engenharias iv
    Computer science, information systems
    Computer networks and communications
    Ciência da computação
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