Iterative Group Decomposition for Refining Microaggregation Solutions

作者:Khomnotai Laksamee; Lin Jun Lin*; Peng Zhi Qiang; Santra Arpita Samanta
来源:Symmetry-Basel, 2018, 10(7): 262.
DOI:10.3390/sym10070262

摘要

Microaggregation refers to partitioning n given records into groups of at least k records each to minimize the sum of the within-group squared error. Because microaggregation is non-deterministic polynomial-time hard for multivariate data, most existing approaches are heuristic based and derive a solution within a reasonable timeframe. We propose an algorithm for refining the solutions generated using the existing microaggregation approaches. The proposed algorithm refines a solution by iteratively either decomposing or shrinking the groups in the solution. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm effectively reduces the information loss of a solution.

  • 出版日期2018-7