A PSO-Based Sanitization Process with Multi-thresholds Model

Earlier, many PPDM algorithms have been proposed to conceal sensitive items in a database in order to disclose sensitive itemsets. All prior techniques, however, ignored a crucial problem in setting minimum support thresholds. Thus, a new concept of minimal support for solving this issue is proposed in this paper. In compliance with a given threshold function, the proposed approach would set a tighter threshold for an object containing several items. Experimental results are then evaluated to show the performance of the traditional Greedy PPDM approach, GA-based PPDM approaches, and the proposed PSO-based algorithm with the new flexible and minimal support function.