Speeding up clustering-based k-anonymisation algorithms with pre-partitioning

  • Authors:
  • Grigorios Loukides;Jianhua Shao

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK;School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

  • Venue:
  • BNCOD'07 Proceedings of the 24th British national conference on Databases
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

K-anonymisation is a technique for protecting privacy contained within a dataset. Many k-anonymisation algorithms have been proposed, and one class of such algorithms are clustering-based. These algorithms can offer high quality solutions, but are rather inefficient to execute. In this paper, we propose a method that partitions a dataset into groups first and then clusters the data within each group for k-anonymisation. Our experiments show that combining partitioning with clustering can improve the performance of clustering-based kanonymisation algorithms significantly while maintaining the quality of anonymisations they produce.