Privacy-preserving user profile matching in social networks

• Main Authors: Yi, Xun, Bertino, Elisa, Rao, Fang-Yu, Lam, Kwok-Yan, Nepal, Surya, Bouguettaya, Athman
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; User Profile Matching; Data Privacy Protection
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143529
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a user queries a user profile database, maintained by a social networking service provider, to identify users whose profiles match the profile specified by the querying user. A typical example of this application is online dating. Most recently, an online...