A set partition of size n is a collection of disjoint blocks B1, B2, . . . , Bd whose union is the set [n] = {1, 2, . . . , n}. We choose the ordering of the blocks so that they satisfy minB1 < minB2 < · · · < minBd. We represent such a set partition by a canonical sequence π1, π2, . . . , πn, with πi = j if i ∈ Bj. We say that a partition π contains a partition σ if the canonical sequence of π...

We study continuous partitioning problems on tree network spaces whose edges and nodes are points in Euclidean spaces. A continuous partition of this space into p connected components is a collection of p subtrees, such that no pair of them intersect at more than one point, and their union is the tree space. An edge-partition is a continuous partition de3ned by selecting p − 1 cut points along ...

soil water retention curve is one of the crucial input parameters in any modeling study on water flow and solute transport in soils. direct measurement of soil water retention curve is time-consuming and costly. alternatively, pedotransfer functions (ptfs) may be used to indirectly estimate the soil water retention curve from easily measured soil properties. many equations for the soil water re...

Recently, a number of researchers have investigated a class of graph partitioning algorithms that reduce the size of the graph by collapsing vertices and edges, partition the smaller graph, and then uncoarsen it to construct a partition for the original graph [4, 26]. From the early work it was clear that multilevel techniques held great promise; however, it was not known if they can be made to...