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topology tree

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Definition: Tree that describes a balanced decomposition of another tree, according to its topology. More precisely, given a restricted multilevel partition for a tree T, a topology tree satisfies the following: (1) A topology tree node at level l represents a vertex cluster at level l in the restricted multilevel partition, and (2) A node at level l ≥ 1 has at most two children, representing the vertex clusters at level l-1 whose union gives the vertex cluster the node represents.

Note: From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, page 8-11, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.

Author: CRC-A


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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "topology tree", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 26 May 2011. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/topologytree.html