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Quantifying the Degree of Self-Nestedness of Trees: Application to the Structural Analysis of Plants

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Quantifying the Degree of Self-Nestedness of Trees: Application to the Structural Analysis of Plants
In this paper we are interested in the problem of approximating trees by trees with a particular self-nested structure. Self-nested trees are such that all their subtrees of a given height are isomorphic. We show that these trees present remarkable compression properties, with high compression rates. In order to measure how far a tree is from being a self-nested tree, we then study how to quantify the degree of self-nestedness of any tree. For this, we define a measure of the self-nestedness of a tree by constructing a self-nested tree that minimizes the distance of the original tree to the set of self-nested trees that embed the initial tree. We show that this measure can be computed in polynomial time and depict the corresponding algorithm. The distance to this nearest embedding self-nested tree (NEST) is then used to define compression coefficients that reflect the compressibility of a tree. To illustrate this approach, we then apply these notions to the analysis of plant branching ...
Christophe Godin, Pascal Ferraro
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where TCBB
Authors Christophe Godin, Pascal Ferraro
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