A comprehensive bibliometric analysis on social network anonymization: Current approaches and future directions

N Yazdanjue, H Yazdanjouei, H Gharoun… - … and Information Systems, 2025 - Springer
In recent decades, social network anonymization has become a crucial research field due to
its pivotal role in preserving users' privacy. However, the high diversity of approaches …

A fast graph modification method for social network anonymization

M Kiabod, MN Dehkordi, B Barekatain - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Privacy on social networks is one of the most important and well-known issues. Various
algorithms have been proposed to preserve the privacy of social network, all of which try to …

GRAM: An efficient (k, l) graph anonymization method

R Mortazavi, SH Erfani - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
There are plenty of applications that use graphs for representing the association between
different entities. Many research communities are interested in publishing such graphs to …

Publishing community-preserving attributed social graphs with a differential privacy guarantee

X Chen, S Mauw, Y Ramírez-Cruz - arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.00280, 2019 - arxiv.org
We present a novel method for publishing differentially private synthetic attributed graphs.
Unlike preceding approaches, our method is able to preserve the community structure of the …

How to hide one's relationships from link prediction algorithms

M Waniek, K Zhou, Y Vorobeychik, E Moro… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Our private connections can be exposed by link prediction algorithms. To date, this threat
has only been addressed from the perspective of a central authority, completely neglecting …

FSopt_k: Finding the Optimal Anonymization Level for a Social Network Graph

M Kiabod, MN Dehkordi, B Barekatain, K Raahemifar - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
k-degree anonymity is known as one of the best models for anonymizing social network
graphs. Although recent works have tried to address the privacy challenges of social …

Conditional adjacency anonymity in social graphs under active attacks

S Mauw, Y Ramírez-Cruz, R Trujillo-Rasua - Knowledge and Information …, 2019 - Springer
Social network data is typically made available in a graph format, where users and their
relations are represented by vertices and edges, respectively. In doing so, social graphs …

On breaking truss-based communities

H Chen, A Conte, R Grossi, G Loukides… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
A k-truss is a graph such that each edge is contained in at least k-2 triangles. This notion has
attracted much attention, because it models meaningful cohesive subgraphs of a graph. We …

Large-scale dynamic social network directed graph k-in&out-degree anonymity algorithm for protecting community structure

X Zhang, J Liu, J Li, L Liu - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social network data publishing is dynamic, and attackers can perform association attacks
based on social network directed graph data at different times. The existing social network …

Robust active attacks on social graphs

S Mauw, Y Ramírez-Cruz, R Trujillo-Rasua - Data mining and knowledge …, 2019 - Springer
In order to prevent the disclosure of privacy-sensitive data, such as names and relations
between users, social network graphs have to be anonymised before publication. Naive …