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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 20.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2012 Jan 27;16(3):413–423. doi: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2185850

Algorithm 3.

MDAV′(D)

Require: Original dataset D, privacy parameter k, weights wICD
  and wAge
Return: Anonymized dataset D̃, ILM() and ALM()
1: ← Ø; ĩ ← 0; ã ← 0; p ← ∑TD |T|
2: while |D| ≥ 3* k do
3:   F ← the most frequent trajectory in D
 ▷Find the most distant trajectory to F
4:   X ← argmaxT∈D{(i + a)|i, a ∈ A-GS(F, 0, 0, T)}
5:   {C, i′, a′} ← formCluster(X, k)
6:   C; ĩĩ + i′; ãã + a′
7:   Y ← argmaxT∈D{(i + a)|i, a ∈ A-GS(X, 0, 0, T)}
8:   {C, i′, a′} ← formCluster(Y, k)
9:   C; ĩĩ + i′; ãã + a′
10: end while
11: while |D| ≥ 2 * k do
12:   F ← the most frequent trajectory in D
13:   X ← argmaxT∈D{(i + a)|i, a ∈ A-GS(F, 0,0, T)}
14:   {C, i′, a′} ← formCluster(X, k)
15:   C; ĩĩ + i′; ãã + a′
16: end while
17: R ← select a trajectory from D uniformly at random
18: {C, i′, a′} ← formCluster(R, |D|)
19: C; ĩĩ + i′; ãã + a′
20: return {D̃, ĩ/(p * wICD), ã/(p*wAge)}