Research Publications

Applications Security

Tong-Lee Lim, Tieyan Li, Yingjiu Li: A Security and Performance Evaluation of Hash-based RFID Protocols. Accepted by the 4th International Conferences on Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt), Beijing, December 14-17, 2008.

 

Shaoying Cai, Yingjiu Li, Yunlei Zhao, Yiming Zhao: Analysis and improvements of a secure e-tender submission protocol. Accepted by the 4th International Conferences on Information Security and Cryptology (short paper track), Beijing, December 14-17, 2008.

 

Nan Hu, Giri K. Tayi, Chengyu Ma, Yingjiu Li: Certificate Revocation Release Policies. Accepted by Journal of Computer Security, IOS Press, April 2008.

 

Daryl Walleck, Yingjiu Li, Shouhuai Xu: Empirical Analysis of Certificate Revocation Lists. 22nd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSEC), pages 159-174, LNCS 5094, Strand Palace Hotel, UK, July 13-16, 2008.

 

Ling Qiu, Yingjiu Li: Multistage Off-line Permutation Packet Routing on a Mesh: an Approach with Elementary Mathematics. Accepted by Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Springer, 2008.

 

Yingjiu Li, Xuhua Ding: Protecting RFID Communications in Supply Chains. Proc. ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer, and Communication Security (ASIACCS’07), pages 234-241, Singapore, March 20-22, 2007 (acceptance ratio 33/188 = 17.6%).

 

Chengyu Ma, Nan Hu, Yingjiu Li:  On the Release of CRLs in Public Key Infrastructure.  Proc. 15th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2006), pages 17-28, Vancouver, Canada, July 31-August 4, 2006 (acceptance ratio 22/179 = 12.3%).

 

Shuhong Wang, Yingjiu Li, Bo Zhu, Nan Hu: A Generic Protocol for Controlling Access to Mobile Services. Applied Public Key Infrastructure, Fourth International Workshop (IWAP’05), pages 95-110, J. Zhou et al. (Eds.) IOS Press. 2005.

 

Yingjiu Li, Xinwen Zhang: Securing Credit Card Transactions with One-Time Payment Scheme. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), Vol.4, No.4, pages 413-426, Elsevier, 2005.

 

Xinwen Zhang, Yingjiu Li, Divya Nalla: An Attribute-Based Access Matrix Model. Proc. the 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’05), Track on Computer Security (SEC), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, March 13-17, 2005.

 

Privacy Protection and Inference Control

Haibing Lu, Yingjiu Li, Jaideep Vaidya, Vijay Atluri: An Efficient Online Auditing Approach to Limit Private Data Disclosure. Accepted by 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, March 23-26, 2009.

 

Yingjiu Li, Haibing Lu: Disclosure analysis and control in statistical databases. 13th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), pages 146-160, LNCS 5283, Malaga, Spain, 6-8 October, 2008. (acceptance ratio 37/176=21%).

 

Haibing Lu, Yingjiu Li: Practical Inference Control for Data Cubes. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 5(2), pages 87-98, 2008.

 

Songtao Guo, Xintao Wu, Yingjiu Li: Determining Error Bounds for Spectral Filtering Based Reconstruction Methods in Privacy Preserving Data Mining. Accepted by Knowledge and Information Systems, An International Journal (KAIS), Springer, 2007.

 

Ling Qiu, Yingjiu Li, Xintao Wu: Outsourcing Data Mining Tasks While Protecting Business Intelligence and Customer Privacy. Accepted by Knowledge and Information Systems, An International Journal (KAIS), Springer, 2007.

 

Yanjiang Yang, Yingjiu Li, Robert Deng: New Paradigm of Inference Control with Trusted Computing. Data and Applications Security (DBSEC) 2007, LNCS 4602, pages 243-258, Redondo Beach, CA, USA, July 8-11, 2007.

 

Lingyu Wang, Yingjiu Li, Sushil Jajodia, Duminda Wijesekera: Parity-Based Inference Control for Multi-Dimensional Range Sum Queries. Journal of Computer Security, 15(5), pages 417-445, IOS Press, February 2007

 

Ling Qiu, Yingjiu Li, Xintao Wu: Preserving Privacy in Association Rule Mining with Bloom Filters. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), 29(3), pages 253-278, Springer Netherlands, 2007.

 

Haibing Lu, Yingjiu Li, Xintao Wu: Disclosure Risk in Dynamic Two-Dimensional Contingency Tables (Extended Abstract). 2nd International Conference on Information System Security (ICISS’06), pages 349-352, Kolkata, India, December 17-21, 2006.

 

Ling Qiu, Yingjiu Li, Xintao Wu: An Approach to Outsourcing Data Mining Tasks While Protecting Business Intelligence and Customer Privacy. International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM 2006), pages 551-558, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 18 December 2006.

 

Haibing Lu, Yingjiu Li, Xintao Wu: Disclosure Analysis for Two-Way Contingency Tables. Proc. Privacy in Statistical Databases (PSD'2006), pages 57-67, Springer LNCS 4302/2006, Rome, December 13-15, 2006.

 

Songtao Guo, Xintao Wu, Yingjiu Li: On the Lower Bound of Reconstruction Error for Spectral Filtering. 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2006), pages 520-527, Berlin, Germany, September 18-22, 2006 (acceptance ratio 122/685 = 17.8%).

 

Yingjiu Li, Haibing Lu, Robert Deng: Practical Inference Control for Data Cubes (Extended Abstract). Proc. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P’06), pages 115-120, Oakland, USA, May 21-24, 2006 (acceptance ratio 32/251=12.7%).

 

Songtao Guo, Xintao Wu, Yingjiu Li: Deriving Private Information from Perturbed Data Using IQR Based Approach.  Second International Workshop on Privacy Data Management (PDM’06), Atlanta, USA, April 3-7, 2006.

 

Xintao Wu, Songtao Guo, Yingjiu Li: Towards Statistical Modeling Based Value Disclosure Analysis in General Databases.  Proc. the 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’06), Track on Data Mining (DM), pages 617-621, Dijon, France, April 23-27, 2006.

 

Xintao Wu, Ying Wu, Yongge Wang, Yingjiu Li: Privacy Aware Market Basket Data Set Generation: A Feasible Approach for Inverse Frequent Set Mining. Proc. 2005 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’05), Newport Beach, CA, USA, April 21-23, 2005.

 

Lingyu Wang, Yingjiu Li, Duminda Wijesekera, Sushil Jajodia: Precisely Answering Multi-dimensional Range Queries without Privacy Breaches. ESORICS 2003: 100-115

 

Yingjiu Li, Lingyu Wang, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodia: Auditing Interval-Based Inference. CAiSE 2002: 553-567

 

Yingjiu Li, Sencun Zhu, Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia: A Privacy-Enhanced Microaggregation Method. FoIKS 2002: 148-159

 

Yingjiu Li, Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia: Preventing Interval-Based Inference by Random Data Perturbation. Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2002: 160-170

 

Data Rights Management

Yingjiu Li: Database Watermarking, A Systematic View (book chapter). Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends, edited by Sushil Jajodia and Michael Gertz, Springer, 2007.

 

Yingjiu Li, Huiping Guo, Shuhong Wang: A Multiple Bits Watermark for Relational Data. Journal of Database Management (JDM), 19(3), pages 1-21, Idea Group Inc., July-September, 2008.

 

Huiping Guo, Yingjiu Li, Sushil Jajodia: Chaining Watermarks for Detecting Malicious Modifications to Streaming Data. Information Sciences. 177(1), pages 281-298, 2007.

 

Jie Guo, Yingjiu Li, Robert Deng, Kefei Chen: Rights Protection for Data Cubes. Proc. 9th Information Security Conference (ISC'06), pages 359-372, Springer LNCS 4176/2006, Samos Island, Greece, August 30-September 2, 2006 (acceptance ratio 38/188 = 20%).

 

Yingjiu Li, Robert Deng: Publicly Verifiable Ownership Protection for Relational Databases.  Proc. ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer, and Communication Security (ASIACCS’06), pages 78-89, Taipei, Taiwan, March 21-24, 2006 (acceptance ratio 33/189 = 17.7%).

 

Yingjiu Li, Vipin Swarup, Sushil Jajodia: Fingerprinting Relational Databases: Schemes and Specialties. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Vol.2, No.1, pages 34-45, January-March 2005.

 

Huiping Guo, Yingjiu Li, Anyi Liu, Sushil Jajodia: A Fragile Watermarking Scheme for Detecting Malicious Modifications of Database Relations. Information Sciences Vol. 176, No. 10, pages 1350-1378, Elsevier, 2006.

Yingjiu Li, Vipin Swarup, Sushil Jajodia: Defending Against Additive Attacks with Maximal Errors in Watermarking Relational Databases. DBSec 2004: 81-94

Yingjiu Li, Huiping Guo, Sushil Jajodia: Tamper detection and localization for categorical data using fragile watermarks. ACM Digital Rights Management Workshop 2004: 73-82

Yingjiu Li, Vipin Swarup, Sushil Jajodia: Constructing a virtual primary key for fingerprinting relational data. ACM Digital Rights Management Workshop 2003: 133-141

Yingjiu Li, Vipin Swarup, Sushil Jajodia: A Robust Watermarking Scheme for Relational Data. Proc. the 13th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), pages 195-200, Seattle, USA, December 2003.

 

Temporal Data Mining

Yingjiu Li, Sencun Zhu, X. Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodia: Looking into the Seeds of Time: Discovering Temporal Patterns in Large Transaction Sets. Information Sciences, Vol. 176, pages 1003–1031, Elsevier, 2006.

Yingjiu Li, Peng Ning, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodia: Discovering Calendar-Based Temporal Association Rules (preliminary version appeared in TIME’01). Data Knowl. Eng. 44(2): 193-218 (2003)

Yingjiu Li, Ningning Wu, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodia: Enhancing Profiles for Anomaly Detection Using Time Granularities (preliminary version appeared in WIDS’00). Journal of Computer Security 10(1/2): 137-158 (2002)

Yingjiu Li, Peng Ning, X. Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodia: Generating Market Basket Data with Temporal Information (poster paper). Proc. ACM Workshop on Temporal Data Mining, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2001.

Yingjiu Li, Peng Ning, X. Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodia: Discovering Calendar-based Temporal Association Rules. Proc. of the 8th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME), pages 111-118, Cividale, Italy, June 2001.

Yingjiu Li, Ningning Wu, X. Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodia: Enhancing Profiles for Anomaly Detection Using Time Granularities. Proc. of the ACM Workshop on Intrusion Detection Systems (WIDS), Athens, Greece, November 2000.

Yingjiu Li, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodia: Discovering Temporal Patterns in Multiple Granularities. TSDM 2000: 5-19

 

 

Pending Patents

 

Yingjiu Li, Huiping Guo, and Sushil Jajodia: Tamper Detection and Localization for Categorical Data Using Fragile Watermarks. US patent, October 1, 2004.

 

Huiping Guo, Yingjiu Li, Anyi Liu, Sushil Jajodia: A Fragile Watermarking Scheme for Detecting Malicious Modifications to Database Relations. US Patent, April 6, 2005.

 

Huiping Guo, Yingjiu Li, Sushil Jajodia: Chaining Watermarks for Detecting Malicious Modifications to Streaming Data. US Patent, May 7, 2005.

 

Last updated: April 2008.