This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a two-party hierarchical clustering approach for horizontally partitioned data to enable privacy-preserving data mining. The key points are:
1) The paper presents an approach for applying hierarchical clustering across two parties that hold horizontally partitioned data, with the goal of preserving privacy.
2) Each party independently computes k-cluster centers on their own data and encrypts the distance matrices before sharing. Hierarchical clustering is then applied to merge the clusters.
3) An algorithm is provided for identifying the closest cluster for each data point based on the merged distance matrices.
4) The approach is analyzed and compared to other clustering techniques, demonstrating it has lower computational complexity