Hiccups on the road to privacy-preserving linear programming
Alice Bednarz, Nigel Geoffrey Bean, Matthew Roughan · 2009
Linear programming is one of maths' greatest contributions to industry. There are many places where linear programming could be beneficially applied across more than one company, but there is a roadblock. Companies have secrets. The data needed for joint optimization may need to be kept private either through concerns about leaking competitively sensitive data, or due to privacy legislation.