ugraphs.pl -- Graph manipulation library

The S-representation of a graph is a list of (vertex-neighbours) pairs, where the pairs are in standard order (as produced by keysort) and the neighbours of each vertex are also in standard order (as produced by sort). This form is convenient for many calculations.

A new UGraph from raw data can be created using vertices_edges_to_ugraph/3.

Adapted to support some of the functionality of the SICStus ugraphs library by Vitor Santos Costa.

Ported from YAP 5.0.1 to SWI-Prolog by Jan Wielemaker.

author: - R.A.O'Keefe; - Vitor Santos Costa; - Jan Wielemaker
license: - GPL+SWI-exception or Artistic 2.0

vertices(+S_Graph, -Vertices) is det

Strips off the neighbours lists of an S-representation to produce a list of the vertices of the graph. (It is a characteristic of S-representations that every vertex appears, even if it has no neighbours.). Vertices is in the standard order of terms.

vertices_edges_to_ugraph(+Vertices, +Edges, -UGraph) is det

Create a UGraph from Vertices and edges. Given a graph with a set of Vertices and a set of Edges, Graph must unify with the corresponding S-representation. Note that the vertices without edges will appear in Vertices but not in Edges. Moreover, it is sufficient for a vertice to appear in Edges.

?- vertices_edges_to_ugraph([],[1-3,2-4,4-5,1-5], L).
L = [1-[3,5], 2-[4], 3-[], 4-[5], 5-[]]

In this case all vertices are defined implicitly. The next example shows three unconnected vertices:

?- vertices_edges_to_ugraph([6,7,8],[1-3,2-4,4-5,1-5], L).
L = [1-[3,5], 2-[4], 3-[], 4-[5], 5-[], 6-[], 7-[], 8-[]]

del_vertices(+Graph, +Vertices, -NewGraph) is det

Unify NewGraph with a new graph obtained by deleting the list of Vertices and all the edges that start from or go to a vertex in Vertices to the Graph. Example:

?- del_vertices([1-[3,5],2-[4],3-[],4-[5],5-[],6-[],7-[2,6],8-[]],
                [2,1],
                NL).
NL = [3-[],4-[5],5-[],6-[],7-[6],8-[]]

Compatibility: - Upto 5.6.48 the argument order was (+Vertices, +Graph, -NewGraph). Both YAP and SWI-Prolog have changed the argument order for compatibility with recent SICStus as well as consistency with del_edges/3.

ugraph_union(+Set1, +Set2, ?Union)

Is true when Union is the union of Set1 and Set2. This code is a copy of set union

edges(+UGraph, -Edges) is det

Edges is the set of edges in UGraph. Each edge is represented as a pair From-To, where From and To are vertices in the graph.

transpose_ugraph(Graph, NewGraph) is det

Unify NewGraph with a new graph obtained from Graph by replacing all edges of the form V1-V2 by edges of the form V2-V1. The cost is O(|V|*log(|V|)). Notice that an undirected graph is its own transpose. Example:

?- transpose([1-[3,5],2-[4],3-[],4-[5],
              5-[],6-[],7-[],8-[]], NL).
NL = [1-[],2-[],3-[1],4-[2],5-[1,4],6-[],7-[],8-[]]

Compatibility: - This predicate used to be known as transpose/2. Following SICStus 4, we reserve transpose/2 for matrix transposition and renamed ugraph transposition to transpose_ugraph/2.

compose(G1, G2, Composition)

Calculates the composition of two S-form graphs, which need not have the same set of vertices.

top_sort(+Graph, -Sorted) is semidet

top_sort(+Graph, -Sorted, ?Tail) is semidet

Sorted is a topological sorted list of nodes in Graph. A toplogical sort is possible if the graph is connected and acyclic. In the example we show how topological sorting works for a linear graph:

?- top_sort([1-[2], 2-[3], 3-[]], L).
L = [1, 2, 3]

The predicate top_sort/3 is a difference list version of top_sort/2.

neighbors(+Vertex, +Graph, -Neigbours) is det

neighbours(+Vertex, +Graph, -Neigbours) is det

Neigbours is a sorted list of the neighbours of Vertex in Graph.