Abstract:
:Let S be a set of n objects. A binary tree of S is a binary tree whose leaves are labeled without repetition from S. The operation of pruning a tree T is that of removing some leaves from T and suppressing all inner vertices of degree 2 which are formed by this deletion. Given two trees T and U, an agreement tree is a tree that can be obtained from T as well as from U by pruning the fewest number of leaves from the two trees. A quadratic algorithm is presented for doing this and two metrics are defined based on agreement trees.
journal_name
Math Bioscijournal_title
Mathematical biosciencesauthors
Goddard W,Kubicka E,Kubicki G,McMorris FRdoi
10.1016/0025-5564(94)90012-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1994-10-01 00:00:00pages
215-26issue
2eissn
0025-5564issn
1879-3134pii
0025-5564(94)90012-4journal_volume
123pub_type
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