r-Anonymized clustering

  • Authors:
  • Wenye Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao SAR, China

  • Venue:
  • ICONIP'12 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Neural Information Processing - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Motivated by the practical needs in privacy-preserving data publishing, we study the problem of r-anonymized clustering. The problem is to minimize the total cost between objects and cluster-centers subject to a constraint that each cluster contains a minimum number of objects. To address the inherent computational difficulty, we exploit linear program relaxation with a specialized iterative rounding strategy to find high quality solutions in an efficient manner. We conduct a series of experiments to evaluate the performance of the methods, and demonstrate its application in privacy preserving disease mapping.