Analyzing and Securing Social Networks

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Inference Control

for Social Media

21.1 INTRODUCTION

Inference is the process of forming conclusions from premises. This process is harmful if the user

draws unauthorized conclusions from the legitimate responses he or she receives. This problem has

come to be known as the inference problem. An inference controller is the device that prevents a

user from drawing unauthorized conclusions. We have studied the inference problem extensively in

the past. Specically, we have dened various types of inference strategies and developed inference

controllers that handle certain types of inference strategies (Thuraisingham et al., 1993).

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