Privacy Preserving for Multiple Sensitive Attributes against Fingerprint Correlation Attack Satisfying c-Diversity

Table 7

Summary of notations used.

Symbol	Description
	Original microdata
	Anonymized form of T
	Explicit identifiers in T
	Quasi-identifiers in T
	Sensitive information in T
	Generalized table
ST	Sensitive table
BID	Bucket identifier
ED	External dataset
GB	Generalized bucket
SAFB	Sensitive attribute fingerprint bucket
EC	Equivalence class
HLPN	High-level petri nets
	Category table for SAs
	Nonmembership knowledge
	Fingerprint correlation knowledge
	Null or zero
	External factor
	Weight of dependent
	Maximum weighted attributes
	Minimum weighted attributes
C	Category level (diversity) of SAs in
	Linkability or linking between SAFBs
	Linkability control factor
k	k-anonymous level
	Single maximum weighted attribute after