Publications




                                                                                                     2018
                    G. Loukides and R. Gwadera. Preventing the diffusion of information to vulnerable users while preserving PageRank
                   International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. vol 5 (1), 2018.
                   
                    O. Ajala, H. Alamro, C. Iliopoulos, and G. Loukides. Towards String Sanitization.
                    Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI), 2018.

                   S. Chang, G. Loukides, and F. Mantegazza. Disentangling the psychological effects of luxury fashion brands on social capital and WOM.
                   International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI), 2018.

                   S. Chang, G. Loukides, and L.P. Lee  Examining the influences of service quality and corporate image on students’ loyalty of boarding schools in the UK: A study of Chinese students.
                   International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI), 2018.

                                                                                                    2017
                    C. Dong and G. Loukides.Approximating Private Set Union/Intersection Cardinality with Logarithmic Complexity.
                    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS). vol 12 (11), 2017. (Impact Factor 4.33)
                   
                    R. Gwadera and G Loukides. Cost-effective viral marketing in the Latency Aware Independent Cascade model.
                    Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2017. (Acceptance rate for long presentation papers: 45/458≈9.8%)

                    G. Poulis, G. Loukides, S. Skiadopoulos, and A. Gkoulalas-Divanis.
                    Anonymizing datasets with demographics and diagnosis codes in the presence of utility constraints.
                    Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), vol 65 (1), 2017. (Impact Factor 2.45)


                                                                                                    2016
                    G. Loukides and R. Gwadera. Limiting the diffusion of information by a selective PageRank-preserving approach.
                    IEEE/ACM Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 2016.

                    S. Chang, G. Loukides, and S. Ahmed. Assessing the drivers of online impulse buying.
                    International Conference of Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI), 2016.

                                                                                                    2015

G. Loukides and R. Gwadera. Optimal Event Sequence Sanitization.
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2015.  

N. Memon, G. Loukides, and J. Shao. A Parallel Method for Scalable Anonymization of Transaction Data.
IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2015.

A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides. Medical data privacy handbook. Springer, 2015. (Edited book)

G. Loukides, J. Liagouris, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, and M. Terrovitis. Utility-constrained electronic health record data publishing through generalization and disassociation.
Medical Data Privacy Handbook, Springer (Eds.) A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides, 2015.

A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides. A survey of anonymization algorithms for electronic health records.
Medical Data Privacy Handbook, Springer (Eds.) A.Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides, 2015.

G. Poulis, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, G. Loukides, S. Skiadopoulos, C. Tryfonopoulos. SECRETA: A tool for anonymizing relational, transaction and RT-datasets.
Medical Data Privacy Handbook, Springer (Eds.) A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides, 2015.

A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides. Introduction to Medical Data Privacy.
Medical Data Privacy Handbook, Springer (Eds.) A.Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides, 2015.


2014

G. Loukides, J. Liagouris, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, and M. Terrovitis. Disassociation for Electronic Health Record Privacy.
Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), vol 50(0), 2014.  (Impact Factor 2.482)

A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, G. Loukides, and J. Sun. Publishing data from electronic health records while preserving privacy: A survey of algorithms.
Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), vol 50(0), 2014. Editor's choice paper (Impact Factor 2.482)

A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, G. Loukides, L. Xiong, and J. Sun. Informatics Methods in Medical Privacy (Editorial).
Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), vol 50(0, 2014. (Impact Factor 2.482)

 

                     G. Poulis, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, G. Loukides, Spiros Skiadopoulos and Christos Tryfonopoulos.
                    SECRETA: A System for Evaluating and Comparing RElational and Transaction Anonymization algorithms.
                    International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2014, as a demo paper.
                    [website, poster]

G. Poulis, S. Skiadopoulos, G. Loukides, and A. Gkoulalas-Divanis. Apriori-based algorithms for km-anonymizing trajectory data.
Transactions on Data Privacy (TDP), vol 7(2), 2014.

A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, G. Loukides and J. Sun. Towards Smarter Healthcare: Anonymizing Medical Data to Support Research Studies
IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol 50 (1), 2014.

 

2013

                    R. Gwadera, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, and G. Loukides. Permutation-based Sequential Pattern Hiding.
                    IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2013. (Acceptance rate for regular papers: 94/809≈11.6%)
                    [presentation, poster]

G. Loukides, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, and J. Shao. Efficient and Flexible Anonymization of Transaction Data.
Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS), vol 36(1), 2013. (Impact Factor 2.225)


G. Poulis, G. Loukides, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, and S. Skiadopoulos. Anonymizing data with relational and transaction attributes.
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD), 2013.

R.G. Heatherly, G. Loukides, J. C. Denny, J. L. Haines, D. M. Roden, and B. A. Malin.
Enabling genomic-phenomic association discovery without sacrificing anonymity
PLoS ONE,
 vol 8 (2), 2013, article number: e53875. (Impact Factor 4.092)

G. Loukides and A. Gkoulalas-Divanis. Hiding Sensitive Patterns from Sequence Databases: Research Challenges and Solutions.
PriSMO: Privacy and Security for Moving Objects (a workshop in conjunction with IEEE MDM), 2013.

G. Poulis, S. Skiadopoulos, G. Loukides, and A. Gkoulalas-Divanis. Distance-based k^m-anonymization of trajectory data.
PriSMO: Privacy and Security for Moving Objects (a workshop in conjunction with IEEE MDM). 2013.

G. Poulis, S. Skiadopoulos, G. Loukides, and A. Gkoulalas-Divanis. Select-Organize-Anonymize: A framework for trajectory data anonymization.
IEEE Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (a workshop in conjunction with IEEE ICDM). 2013.

G. Loukides and A. Gkoulalas-Divanis. Utility-Aware Anonymization of Diagnosis Codes.
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (TITB) (In press) (Impact Factor 1.71)

A. Tamersoy, G. Loukides, M. Nergiz, Y. Saygin, and B. Malin. Anonymization of Longitudinal Electronic Medical Records .
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (TITB), vol 16 (3), 2012. (Impact Factor 1.71)


[Book]
A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides. Anonymization of Electronic Medical Records to Support Clinical Analysis. Springer Briefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Springer.                                                                                                                                                  

              

G. Loukides and A. Gkoulalas-Divanis. Utility-preserving transaction data anonymization with low information loss.
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal (ESWA), vol 39 (10), 2012. (Impact Factor 1.91)

A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides. Utility-guided clustering-based trasaction data anonymization.
Transactions on Data Privacy, vol 5 (1), 2012.

Privacy-preserving Medical Data Sharing, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2012, California, USA, 2012. (tutorial)


                     

2011

A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides. Revisiting Sequential Pattern Hiding to Enhance Utility.
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2011. (poster)


G. Loukides, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and B. Malin. COAT: Constraint-based Anonymization of Transactions.
Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS). (Special issue on Context-Aware Data Mining).
(Impact Factor 2.21)


G. Loukides and J. Shao. Preventing Range Disclosure in k-Anonymised Data.
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal (ESWA), vol 38 (4), 2011. (Impact Factor 2.91)

B. Malin, G. Loukides, K. Benitez, and E. W. Clayton. Identifiability in Biobanks: Models, Measures, and Mitigation Strategies.
Human Genetics, vol 130 (3), 2011. (Impact Factor 5.05)



G. Loukides, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, and J. Shao. On balancing disclosure risk and data utility in transaction data sharing using R-U confidentiality map.
Joint United Nations Economics Commision for Europe/EUROSTAT Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality. (Invited paper)


A. Tziatzios, J. Shao, and G. Loukides. A heuristic method for deriving range-based classification rules.
8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 2011.


A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and G. Loukides. Privacy-constrained Clustering-based Transaction Data Anonymization.
EDBT International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society.
(one of the best papers - invited to Transactions on Data Privacy)




   

                      Privacy challenges and solutions for medical Data Sharing, ECML/PKDD 2011, Athens. (tutorial)


2010

G. Loukides, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and B. Malin. Anonymization of Electronic Medical Records for Validating Genome-Wide Association Studies.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 107 (17), 2010. (Impact Factor 9.83)
Acknowledged as one of the most important technologies to improve the effectiveness of healthcare by a National Human Genome Research
Institute Nature publication.
Media Coverage:Technology Review , KDNuggets , Science News , Nature News , Scientific American , ComputerWeekly.com , The Register

G. Loukides, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and J. Shao. Anonymizing Transaction Data to Eliminate Sensitive Inferences.
21st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2010.





G. Loukides, J. C. Denny and B. Malin. The Disclosure of Diagnosis Codes Can Breach Research Participants? Privacy.
Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), vol. 17 (3), 2010. (Impact Factor 3.4)





G. Loukides, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and B. Malin. Privacy-Preserving Publication of Diagnosis Codes for Effective Biomedical Analysis.
10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, 2010.





G. Loukides, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis and B. Malin. An Integrative, Anonymity-Preserving Framework for Disseminating Patient Records.
Database Technology for Life Sciences and Medicine, (C. Plant and C. Bohm, eds.), World Scientific, 2010.





K. Benitez, G. Loukides and B. Malin. Beyond Safe Harbor: Automatic Discovery of Health Information De-identification Policy Alternatives.
ACM SIG Health Informatics Symposium, 2010.


A. Tamersoy, G. Loukides and B. Malin. Anonymization of Administrative Billing Codes with Repeated Diagnoses through Censoring.
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, 2010.


2009

G. Loukides and A. Gkoulalas-Divanis. Privacy Challenges and Solutions in the Social Web.
ACM Crossroads, Vol. 16 (2), 2009.





G. Loukides, J. C. Denny and B. Malin. Do Clinical Profiles Constitute Privacy Risks for Research Participants?
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, 2009. (Distinguished Paper Award)





G. Loukides, A. Tziatzios and J. Shao. Towards Preference-Constrained k-Anonymisation.
DASFAA International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis, 2009.





2008

G. Loukides and J. Shao. An efficient clustering algorithm for k-Anonymisation.
Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 23(2), 2008.


G. Loukides and J. Shao. Data Utility and Privacy Protection Trade-off in k-Anonymisation.
EDBT Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society, 2008.


G. Loukides and J. Shao. An Empirical Study of Utility Measures for k-Anonymisation.
25th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD), 2008.









2007




G. Loukides and J. Shao. Greedy Clustering with Sample-Based Heuristics for k-Anonymisation.
IEEE International Symposium on Data, Privacy, and E-Commerce. (Selected as one of the best four papers)





G. Loukides and J. Shao. Clustering-Based k-Anonymisation algorithms.
International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2007.





G. Loukides and J. Shao. Speeding up Clustering-Based k-Anonymisation Algorithms with Pre-partitioning.
24th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD), 2007.





G. Loukides and J. Shao. Capturing Data Usefulness and Privacy Protection in k-Anonymisation.
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2007.






2006





G. Loukides and J. Shao. Towards Balancing Data Usefulness and Privacy Protection in k-Anonymisation.
IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 2006. (Excellent paper award)








G. Loukides and J. Shao. Query-driven Data Anonymisation.
23rd British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) PhD Forum, 2006.