Self-Adaptive Optimization for Improved Data Sanitization and Restoration

Abstract

Nowadays, Data Sanitization is considered as a highly demanded area for solving the issue of privacy preservation in Data mining. Data Sanitization, means that the sensitive rules given by the users with the specific modifications and then releases the modified database so that, the unauthorized users cannot access the sensitive rules. Promisingly, the confidentiality of data is ensured against the data mining methods. The ultimate goal of this paper is to build an effective sanitization algorithm for hiding the sensitive rules given by users/experts. Meanwhile, this paper concentrates on minimizing the four sanitization research challenges namely, rate of hiding failure, rate of Information loss, rate of false rule generation and degree of modification. Moreover, this paper proposes a heuristic optimization algorithm named Self-Adaptive Firefly (SAFF) algorithm to generate the small length key for data sanitization and also to adopt lossless data sanitization and restoration. The generated optimized key is used for both data sanitation as well as the data restoration process. The proposed SAFF-based algorithm is compared and examined against the other existing sanitizing algorithms like Fire Fly (FF), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Differential Evolution algorithm (DE) algorithms and the results have shown the excellent performance of proposed algorithm. The proposed algorithm is implemented in JAVA. The data set used are Chess, Retail, T10, and T40.