DwB Publications 

Bibliographic information and links to open access publications by participants in the Data without Boundaries are published on this page. The publications are grouped under three subheadings: Books; Articles in Books, Journals and Bulletins; and Conference Papers, Presentations and Posters. If Data without Boundaries appears in someone else's publication, presentation etc. we are happy to provide a link to it on our Promotion website. Contact us by e-mail .

Publications by DwB Supported Projects

Bibliographic information on research publications by the DwB supported projects under ‘Data Access’ are published on the page Research Outcomes, if they have provided the information.
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Books

Kleiner, Brian & Renschler, Isabelle & Wernli, Boris & Farago, Peter & Joye, Dominique (Eds.) (2013). Understanding Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences. Zürich: Seismo. ISBN 978-3-03777-133-4. [The book can be purchased online].

Articles in Books, Journals and Bulletins

Bender, Stefan & Heining, Jorg (2011). The Research-Data-Centre in Research-Data-Centre Approach: A First Step Towards Decentralised International Data Sharing. IASSIST Quarterly (2011: Fall). Available on the journal website (PDF). [ref. 2012-01-24]

Castro, Jordi (2012). Comparing L1 and L2 distances for CTA. In Domingo-Ferrer, Josep & Tinnirello, Ilenia (Eds.) Privacy in Statistical Databases-PSD 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7556, 35–46. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Article separately available on website of the author (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Castro, Jordi (2012). A computational evaluation of optimization solvers for CTA. In Domingo-Ferrer, Josep & Tinnirello, Ilenia (Eds.) Privacy in Statistical Databases-PSD 2012, vol. 7556, 11–21. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Article separately available on website of the author (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Castro, Jordi (2012). Recent advances in optimization techniques for statistical tabular data protection. European Journal of Operational Research, 216 (2012) 257–269. [Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2011/03, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011]. Article separately available on website of the author (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Castro, Jordi (2011). Extending controlled tabular adjustment for non-additive tabular data with negative protection levels. Statistics and Operations Research Transactions – SORT, 35 (2011) 3–20. Research Report separately available on website of the author (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Castro, Jordi (2012). On assessing the disclosure risk of controlled adjustment methods for statistical tabular data. International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 20 (2012) 921–94. DOI: 10.1142/S400314. [Previously appeared as Research Report DR 2012/07 (PDF) Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012]. [ref. 2013-08-21]

Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (2012). Marginality: a numerical mapping for enhanced exploitation of taxonomic attributes. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence-MDAI 2012, 7647, 367–381. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Publisher's (non-free access) Article separately available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Domingo-Ferrer, Josep & Muralidhar, Krish & Rufian-Torrell, Guillem (2012). Anonymization Methods for Taxonomic Microdata. In Domingo-Ferrer, Josep & Tinnirello, Ilenia (Eds.) Privacy in Statistical Databases-PSD 2012, vol. 7556, 90–102. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Publisher's (non-free access) Article separately available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Domingo-Ferrer, Josep & Trujillo-Rasua, Rolando (2012). Microaggregation- and Permutation-Based Anonymization of Mobility Data. Information Sciences, vol. 208, 55–80. Article separately available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Giessing, Sarah (2012). Flexible Rounding Based on Consistent Post-tabular Stochastic Noise. In Domingo-Ferrer, Josep & Tinnirello, Ilenia (Eds.) Privacy in Statistical Databases-PSD 2012, vol. 7556, 22–34. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Article available on publisher's website (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Hajian, Sara & Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (2013). A methodology for direct and indirect discrimination prevention in data mining. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol . 25, no. 7, Luly 2013, 1445–1459. Article separately available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Hajian, Sara & Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (2012). Direct and indirect discrimination prevention methods. In Discrimination and Privacy in the Information Society (eds. Custers, Bart & Calders, Toon & Schermer, Bart & Zarsky, Tal), 241–254. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Publisher's (non-free access) Article separately available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Hajian, Sara & Domingo-Ferrer, Josep & Martínez-Ballesté, Antoni (2011). Rule Protection for Indirect Discrimination Prevention in Data Mining. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence-MDAI 2011, vol. 6820, 211–222. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Publisher's (non-free access). Article separately available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Heus, Pascal (2012). Metadata Technology Providing Support for Data Without Boundaries (DwB) Project: MT to Help Develop Portal for Cross-Border Access to European Research Data. MT Newsletter Feb. 2012. Available on Metadata Technology's website (pdf). [ref. 2012-02-14]

Kleemola, Mari (2012). DwB to Support Acces to European Official Microdata. Directions. A newsletter of the Data Documentation Initiative. Vol V(2): January 2012, 1–2. Available on the DDI Alliance website (pdf) [ref. 2012-01-19]

Laaksonen, Helena (2013). Data without Boundaries: Helpotusta aineistojen tutkimuskäyttöön yli rajojen. [Data without Boundaries: Easing Transborder Data Use for Research Purposes. In Finnish only.] Tietoarkisto [FSD Bulletin] 2013, 38. Available on the FSD website (pdf). [ref.  2015-05-29]

Laaksonen, Helena (2011). Euroopan unioni tukee tutkimuksen rakenteita. [The European Union to Support Research Infrastructures. In Finnish only.] Tietoarkisto [FSD Bulletin] 2011, 26. Available on the FSD website (pdf). [ref. 2012-01-19]

Moilanen, Katja (2015). Eurooppalainen datafoorumi EDAF2 esitteli tulevaisuuden tutkijapalveluita mikrodatan käyttäjille. [A European Data Forum Introduced Future Microdata Services for Researchers. In Finnish only.] Tietoarkistoblogi [Data Archive Blog], 20 April 2015. Available online. [ref. 2015-05-29]

Oganian, Anna & Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (2012). Hybrid Microdata via Model-Based Clustering. In Domingo-Ferrer, Josep & Tinnirello, Ilenia (Eds.) Privacy in Statistical Databases-PSD 2012, vol. 7556, 103–115. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Publisher's (non-free access) Article separately available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

O'keefe, Christine M. & Shlomo, Natalie (2012). Comparison of Remote Analysis with Statistical Disclosure Control for Protecting the Confidentiality of Business Data. Transactions on Data Privacy 5(2): 403–432. Electronic article available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Schiller, David; Welpton, Richard (2014). Distributing access to data, not data – providing remote access to European microdata. In: IASSIST quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3, S. 6–14. Electronic article available (PDF). [ref. 2015-05-07]

Soria-Comas, Jordi & Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (fortcoming). Optimal random noise distributions for differential privacy. Paper submitted to Information Systems journal, Sciences. [ref. 2013-08-21]

Soria-Comas, Jordi & Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (2012). Sensitivity-independent differential privacy via prior knowledge refinement, International Journal on Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems, 20(6): 855–876. DOI: 10.1142/S400272. Article separately available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Stokes, Klara & Torra, Vicenç (2012). Multiple Releases of k-Anonymous Data Sets and k-Anonymous Relational Databases. International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems 20(6): 839–854. DOI: 10.1142/S400272. [Not open access]. [ref. 2013-05-15]

Torra, Vicenç (2012). Privacidad de la información para bases de datos y redes sociales. Novatica, 218 (julio-agosto 2012). Not available electronically. [Link to jounal index]. [ref. 2013-05-15]

Torra, Vicenç & Stokes, Klara (2012). A Formalization of Record Linkage and its Application to Data Protection. International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems 20(6): 907–920. DOI: 10.1142/S400272. [Not open access]. [ref. 2013-05-15]

Tubaro, Paola & Cros, Marie & Silberman, Roxane (2012). Access to Official Data and Researcher Accreditation in Europe: Existing Barriers and a Way Forward. IASSIST Quarterly, Spring 2012 (volume 36-1), 22–27. [ref. 2013-05-15]

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Conference Papers, Presentations and Posters

Baena Mirabete, Daniel & Castro, Jordi (2012). A fix and relax heuristic for controlled tabular adjustment. Invited presentation in 25th European Conference on Operational Research-EURO 2012, Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania), July 2012. Abstract available on the conference website (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-22]

Bender, Stefan & Hundepool, Anco & Silberman, Roxane (2011). The need for networks on data access - Data Without Boundaries Project and Workshop on Data Access. UNECE-ESSnet Joint Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality, Tarragona. Available on UNECE website (pdf and ppt) or downloadable here (pdf) [ref. 2011-10-27]

Bender, Stefan & Schiller, David (2011). Data without Boundaries and Improving Access to Microdata. 20th Scientific Colloquium "Micro Data Access – International and National Perspectives", Wiesbaden. Available on Destatis website (ppt) [ref. 2011-11-10]

Bender, Stefan & Silberman, Roxane (2013). Data without Boundaries: A short Overview. German Data Forum 2013 (33. Sitting, closed session) 18–19 April 2013, Berlin. Slides available on DwB website (pdf). [ref. 2013-07-02]

Brandt, Maurice (2013). Decentralised and Remote Access to Confidential Data in the ESS. Presented in New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) 5–7 March 2013, Brussels. Session 4C – Improving researchers' access to Official microdata. Full paper with abstract and presentation available on the NTTS conference programme page. DARA ESSnet [ref. 2013-07-02]

Castro, Jordi (2012). A computational evaluation of optimization solvers for CTA. Presentation in Privacy in Statistical Databases 2012, Palermo (Italy), 26–28 September 2012. Conference programme available online. [ref. 2013-08-22]

Castro, Jordi (2012). Comparing L1 and L2 distances for CTA. Presentation in Privacy in Statistical Databases 2012, Palermo (Italy), 26–28 September 2012. Conference programme available online. [ref. 2013-08-22]

Castro, Jordi & Frangioni, Antonio & Gentile Claudio (2012). Solving L2-CTA by perspective reformulations. Invited presentation in 25th European Conference on Operational Research-EURO 2012, Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania), July 2012. Abstract available on the conference website (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-22]

Castro, Jordi & Frangioni, Antonio & Gentile Claudio & González, José A. (2011). MILP and MIQP optimization problems from the statistical disclosure control field. Optimization, Theory, Algorithms and Applications in Economics. Invited presentation in Workshop in applications of Optimization in Engineering, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Bellaterra (Catalonia), October 2011. [ref. 2013-08-22]

Castro, Jordi & González, José A. (2011). Present and future research on controlled tabular adjustment. Invited presentation in Joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (Catalonia), October 2011. Paper available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-22]

Cuesta, Jordi & Castro, Jordi (2012). Solving L1-CTA in 3D tables by an interior-point method for block-angular problems. Invited presentation in 25th European Conference on Operational Research-EURO 2012, Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania), July 2012. Abstract available on the conference website (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-22]

Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (2012). Differential privacy: optimal noise and data utility in SDC. Presentation in 4th IAB Workshop on Confidentiality and Disclosure, Nuremberg, Germany, June 30, 2011. Abstract available on the Workshop website (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (2012). Optimal noise for differential privacy. Presentation in 25th European Conference on Operational Research-EURO 2012, Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania), July 2012. Data Confidentiality session. Abstract available on the conference website (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-22]

Domingo-Ferrer, Josep & Trujillo-Rasua, Rolando (2011). Anonymization of Trajectory Data. UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on SDC, Tarragona, Oct. 26–28, 2011. Paper available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-22]

Fleureux, Raphaëlle & Jayet, Cyril & Szulek, Arnaud (2012). CIMES: A Tool for Describing European Official Statistics Microdata. Presentation at EDDI12 – 4th Annual European DDI User Conference December 3, 2012 – December 4, 2012. Bergen, Norway. Abstract and slideshow available on conference website. [ref. 2012-01-24]

Giessing, Sarah (2011). Post-tabular Stochastic Noise to Protect Skewed Business Data. Workin Paper 47 in UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on SDC, Tarragona, Oct. 26–28, 2011. Paper available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-22]

González, José A. & Castro, Jordi (2012). Improving the solution of CTA through valid inequalities. Invited presentation in 25th European Conference on Operational Research-EURO 2012, Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania), July 2012. Abstract available on the conference website (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-22]

Gregory, Arofan (2012). Data without Boundaries: A DDI-Based Metadata Model for Supporting Cross-National Data Discovery. Paper presented during IASSIST Conference 2012, Session-? "Technological Approaches to Enhancing Data Interoperability", Washington DC. Abstract and presentation slides available on IASSIST website [ref. 2012-06-07]

Gregory, Arofan (2012). DDI and GSIM – Impacts, Context, and Future Possibilities. Presentation at EDDI12 – 4th Annual European DDI User Conference December 3, 2012 – December 4, 2012. Bergen, Norway. Abstract and slideshow available on conference website. [ref. 2012-01-24]

Gregory, Arofan & Wittenberg, Marion (2012). Resource Discovery for Official Statistics. Presentation at EDDI12 – 4th Annual European DDI User Conference December 3, 2012 – December 4, 2012. Bergen, Norway. Abstract and slideshow available on conference website. [ref. 2012-01-24]

Hajian, Sara & Domingo-Ferrer, Josep & Martínez-Ballesté, Antoni (2013). Discrimination prevention in data mining for intrusion and crime detection. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security-CICS 2011, 11–15 April 2011, Paris. [Published in conference proceedings, pp. 47–54, not open access]. Paper available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-22]

Jackson, Paul (2011). Standard Accreditation Model for Access to Microdata. UNECE-ESSnet Joint Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality, Tarragona. Available on UNECE website (ppt) or downloadable here (pdf). [ref. 2011-10-28]

Kočar, Sebastian (2014). DDI Data Description Statistics Protection Software. Presentation in Privacy in Statistical Databases 2014, Eivissa (Spain), 17–19 September 2014. Paper available (PDF). [ref. 2015-05-29]

Kočar, Sebastian (2013). Cooperation of an Archive and an NSI to Add Value to Detailed Non-anonymised Microdata. The Slovenian good practice. 5th Conference of the European Survey Research Association ESRA, 15 - 19 July 2013, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Presentation slides republished here (pdf). [ref. 2013-10-01]

Kočar, Sebastian (2013). A Good Practice of Cooperation between Social Science Data Archives and a National Statistics Office: The Slovenian Example. Poster presented in IASSIST 2013: Data Innovation: Increasing Accessibility, Visibility and Sustainability, 28–31 May 2013 Cologne, Germany. Abstract available on the IASSIST 2013 programme page. Poster and the slides presented during the poster session available on DwB website (pdf) [ref. 2013-07-02]

Krizman, Irena (2013). Access to official statistical micro data at the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia and cooperation with the Slovenian Social Science Data Archives. Poster and presentation paper in World Statistics Congress (Hong Kong), 30 Aug. 2013. [ref. 2013-09-26]

Salazar, J. J. (2012). Enhanced Controlled Tabular Adjustment. Presentation in a seminar at CBS (Netherlands), 29 January 2013. [ref. 2013-08-22]

Salazar, J. J. (2012). Enhanced Controlled Tabular Adjustment. Presentation in a seminar at U.S. Census (Washington), 28 November 2012. [ref. 2013-08-22]

Salazar, J. J. (2012). Protecting sensitive information when publishing tables. Presentation in a seminar at Westat (Washington), 26 November 2012. [ref. 2013-08-22]

Schiller, David (2013). Proposal for a European Remote Access Network (EU-RAN) - Main Components. In Joint UNECE/Eurostat work session on statistical data confidentiality, 28-30 Oct. 2013, Ottawa, Canada. Paper available (PDF), Slideshow available (PPT). [ref. 2013-10-29]

Schiller, David (2013). Data Without Boundaries – Supporting Transnational Research in Europe. Poster presented in IASSIST 2013: Data Innovation: Increasing Accessibility, Visibility and Sustainability, 28–31 May 2013 Cologne, Germany. Abstract available on the IASSIST 2013 programme page. Poster available on DwB website (pdf). [ref. 2013-07-02]

Schiller, David (2013). The State of the Art of Remote Access to Confidential Microdata in Europe. Conference presentation Session C5 in IASSIST 2013: Data Innovation: Increasing Accessibility, Visibility and Sustainability, 28–31 May 2013 Cologne, Germany. Abstract available on the IASSIST 2013 programme page. [ref. 2013-07-02]

Schiller, David & Welpton, Richard (2013). Providing Remote Access to European Microdata. Presented in New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) 5–7 March 2013, Brussels. Session 4C – Improving researchers' access to Official microdata. Full paper with abstract and presentation available on the NTTS conference programme page. [ref. 2013-07-02]

Shlomo, Natalie (2011). Assessing Disclosure Risk in Sample Microdata. Proceedings of the Canadian International Methodology Symposium, Ottawa, November 2011. [ref. 2013-08-22]

Shlomo, Natalie (2011). Comparison of Input Perturbation versus Output Perturbation through a Remote Analysis Server, 4th IAB workshop on confidentiality and disclosure, Nuremberg, Germany, June 30–July 1, 2011. [ref. 2013-08-22]

Shlomo, Natalie (2011). Using Record Linkage to Assess Disclosure Risk in Highly-perturbed Microdata, 4th IAB workshop on confidentiality and disclosure, Nuremberg, Germany, June 30–July 1, 2011. [ref. 2013-08-22]

Shlomo, Natalie & Antal, Laszlo & Elliot, Mark (2013). Disclosure Risk and Data Utility in Flexible Table Generators. Presented in New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) 5–7 March 2013, Brussels. Session 4C – Improving researchers' access to Official microdata. Full paper with abstract and presentation available on the NTTS conference programme page. [ref. 2013-07-02]

Silberman, Roxane (2013). Current developments and difficulties concerning the expected regulation on researchers' access to confidential European microdata German Data Forum 2013 (33. Sitting, closed session) 18–19 April 2013, Berlin. [ref. 2013-07-02]

Silberman, Roxane (2012). Data without Boundaries: Objectives, 1st Year Achievements and 1st Lessons. Presented during the meeting of OECD Committee on Statistics (CSTAT) Expert Group on Microdata Access, Paris. Available on DwB website (pdf) [ref. 2012-05-31]

Silberman, Roxane (2012). Data without Boundaries: Objectives, Status and Research Data  Infrastructures for the Social Sciences. Presented during the Norface Workshop on European Research Data Infrastructures for the Social Sciences, Berlin. Available here (pdf) [ref. 2012-05-03]

Silberman, R. (chair) & Cros, M. & Fleureux, R. & Jayet, C. & Kleiner, B. & Mack, A. & Priddy, M. & Schiller, D. & Shepherdson, J. & Tubaro, P. & Wittenberg M. & Wolf, C. (2012). Panel Session-d "Towards an integrated model for access to official microdata in Europe: First findings from the FP7 DwB project". Presented during IASSIST Conference 2012, Washington DC. Abstract and presentations available on IASSIST website. [ref. 2012-06-07]

Silberman, Roxane & Wolf, Christof (2013). Research Infrastructure for Official Microdata in Europe: Data without Boundaries and Beyond. Presentation at International Year of Statistics 26–27 November, 2013. Luxembourg. Slides available on DwB website (pdf). Abstract & speaker's (C. Wolf's) biography available on the IYS Conference website. [ref. 2013-11-29]

Silberman, Roxane & Wolf, Christof (2012). Data without Boundaries: A European Project to Enhance Access to Official Microdata. Presentation at EDDI12 – 4th Annual European DDI User Conference December 3, 2012 – December 4, 2012. Bergen, Norway. Abstract and slideshow available on conference website. [ref. 2012-01-24]

Soria-Comas, Jordi & Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (2012). Differential privacy through knowledge refinement. ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT 2012) [not open access], Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sep. 3–6, 2012. Paper available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Soria-Comas, Jordi & Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (2012). On differential privacy and data utility in SDC. UNECE/ Eurostat Work Session on SDC, Tarragona, Oct. 26–28, 2011. Paper available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Soria-Comas, Jordi & Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (2012). Probabilistic k-anonymity through microaggregation and data swapping. Presentation in FUZZ-IEEE 2012, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Brisbane, Australia, June 10–15, 2012. IEEE. Paper available (PDF). [ref. 2013-08-21]

Tubaro, Paola (2011). Toward a European Distributed Remote Access: Main Issues and Future Challenges. 58th ISI World Statistics Congress, Dublin . Proceedings available on ISI 2011 website (pdf) [search for "STS 065.02"] or presentation downloadable here (pdf)  [ref. 2011-08-26]

Tubaro, Paola & Cros, Marie & Kleiner, Brian & Silberman, Roxane (2013). Accreditation for transnational research access to official microdata in Europe. Presented in New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) 5–7 March 2013, Brussels. Session 4C – Improving researchers' access to Official microdata. Full paper with abstract and presentation available on the NTTS conference programme page. [ref. 2013-07-02]

Wolf, Christof (2014). Assessing Nonresponse Bias with Microdata from Official Statistics: Data without Boundaries and the European Case. Presented in XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, 13-19 July 2014, Yokohama, Japan. Slides available on the DwB website (PDF). Abstract available on the Conference website. [ref. 2014.07.18]

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