The biggest challenge when disclosing private data is to share information contained in databases while protecting people from being individually identified. Microaggregation is a family of methods for statistical disclosure control. The principle of microaggregation is that confidentiality...

Minimum sum-of-squares clustering consists in partitioning a given set of n points into c clusters in order to minimize the sum of squared distances from the points to the centroid of their cluster. Recently, Sherali and Desai (JOGO, 2005) proposed a reformulation-linearization based...