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Using Simulated Annealing for k-anonymity

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RRS2002-07

Abstract

In this note, we describe a method of simulated annealing for producing k-anonymity. For analytic purposes, there is no reason to expect that the method will be superior or worse than the method of applying genetic algorithms used by Iyengar (2002). The main appeal of simulated annealing is the amount of control it allows of the micro-aggregation process. The k-anonymity problem is known to be NP complete.

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