Tools for social research are critical for developing an understanding of conservation
problems and assessing the feasibility of conservation actions. Social surveys are an …

Conservationists measuring noncompliance with measures limiting the exploitation of
natural resources often ask sensitive questions. However, respondents may distort their …

With the development of social platforms, the social network has aroused wide attention.
Since social networks contain a lot of personal sensitive information, many privacy …

Conventional feature selection algorithms select a global feature subset for the entire
sample space. In contrast, in this paper we propose an efficient filter local feature selection …

Participatory sensing applications rely on individuals to share local and personal data with
others to produce aggregated models and knowledge. In this setting, privacy is an important …

Respondents to survey questions involving sensitive information, such as sexual behavior,
illegal drug usage, tax evasion, and income, may refuse to answer the questions or provide …

We propose a distributed model of nestmate recognition, analogous to the one used by the
vertebrate immune system, in which colony response results from the diverse reactions of …

The negative survey is an emergent survey method, which could protect sensitive data and
individual privacy. Because positive survey results are needed in most situations, it is …

Negative Representation of Information (NRI) is an emerging topic that is primarily inspired
by the self-nonself discrimination paradigm of the biological immune system, and it is mainly …

In this paper we propose an instrument for collecting sensitive data that allows for each
participant to customize the amount of information that she is comfortable revealing. Current …