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The Use of Grid Computing to Facilitate Disclosure Risk Assessment
Principal Investigator - Prof. John Gurd (john.r.gurd@manchester.ac.uk)
Co-Principal Investigators - Dr Mark Elliot, Dr Ken Mayes, Dr Anna Manning
Start Date - April 2005 Now complete
Duration - 12 months
Location - University of Manchester
The development of grid computing has a lot of potential for statistical analysis, though the new environment also introduces new confidentiality and security issues. This project investigated how disclosure risk assessment can be carried out on a grid. The target application of the project was Statistical Disclosure Control, whose purpose is to prevent the identification of individual population units from released statistical data. This application requires huge amounts of processing power and memory so that even limited searches can take days to complete. In this project, an infrastructure has been developed which enables efficient use of heterogeneous networks of computers and grids for statistical analysis. This work will enable research into the potential benefits to be gained from grid technologies.
Presentations
Patient Record Data: Disclosure Control for Grid Based data Access
M. Elliot, K. Purdam, D. Smith, University of Manchester
2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 28 ¨C 30 June 2006
A Distributed Search Infrastructure for Statistical Disclosure Control on a Grid
K. Mayes, A. Manning, J. Gurd, M. Elliot, University of Manchester
D. Haglin, Minnesota State University
2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 28 ¨C 30 June 2006
Publications
Patient Record Data: Disclosure Control for Grid Based data Access
M. Elliot, K. Purdam, D. Smith, University of Manchester
Published in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 28 - 30 June 2006
A Distributed Search Infrastructure for Statistical Disclosure Control on a Grid
K. Mayes, A. Manning, J. Gurd, M. Elliot, University of Manchester
D. Haglin, Minnesota State University
Published in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 28 - 30 June 2006
SUDA: a program for identifying and grading special uniques
M.J. Elliot, A. Manning, K. Mayes, M. Bane, J. Gurd
Proceedings of UNECE work session on Statistical Data Confidentiality, Geneva, 9 ¨C 11 November 2005