Biblio

Nowadays, the database security problem is becoming significantly interesting in the data mining field. How can exploit legitimate data and avoid disclosing sensitive information. There have been many approaches in which the outstanding solution among them is privacy preservation in association rule mining to hide sensitive rules. In the recent years, a meta-heuristic algorithm is becoming effective for this goal, the algorithm is applied in the cuckoo optimization algorithm (COA4ARH). In this paper, an improved proposal of the COA4ARH to minimize the side effect of the missing non-sensitive rules will be introduced. The main contribution of this study is a new pre-process stage to determine the minimum number of necessary transactions for the process of initializing an initial habitat, thus restriction of modified operation on the original data. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we conducted several experiments on the real datasets. The experimental results show that the improved approach has higher performance in compared to the original algorithm.