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* A ''complete graph'' is a graph with d(d-1)/2 edges.
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* A ''complete graph'' is a graph with <math>d(d-1)/2</math> edges.
  
 
* A ''subgraph'' G' of a graph G=(V,E,f) is a graph (V',E',f') such that  
 
* A ''subgraph'' G' of a graph G=(V,E,f) is a graph (V',E',f') such that  

Revision as of 10:42, 8 April 2008

Graph Theory Clustering

dataset $ \{x_1, x_2, \dots , x_d\} $ no feature vector given.

given $ dist(x_i , x_j) $

Construct a graph:

  • node represents the objects.
  • edges are relations between objects.
  • edge weights represents distances.


Definitions:

  • A complete graph is a graph with $ d(d-1)/2 $ edges.
  • A subgraph G' of a graph G=(V,E,f) is a graph (V',E',f') such that
  • A path in a graph between Vi,Vk is an alternating sequence of vertices and edges containing no repeated edges and no repeated vertices and for which ei is incident to Vi and Vi+1, for each i=1,2,...,k-1. (V1 e1 V2 e2 V3 ... Vk-1 ek-1 Vk)
  • A graph is "connected" if a path exists between any two vertices in the graph
  • A component is a maximal connected graph. (i.e. includes as many nodes as possible)
  • A maximal complete subgraph of a graph G is a complete subgraph of G that is not a proper subgraph of any other complete subgraph of G.
  • A cycle is a path of non-trivial length k that comes back to the node where it started
  • A tree is a connected graph with no cycles. The weight of a tree is the sum of all edge weights in the tree.
  • A spanning tree is a tree containing all vertices of a graph.
  • A minimum spanning tree (MST) of a graph G is tree having minimal weight among all spanning trees of G.

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