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/*
 * $Revision: 4378 $
 *
 * last checkin:
 *   $Author: klein $
 *   $Date: 2014-08-31 12:48:43 +0200 (Sun, 31 Aug 2014) $
 ***************************************************************/

/** \file
 * \brief Declaration of class BCTree
 *
 * \author Jan Papenfuß
 *
 * \par License:
 * This file is part of the Open Graph Drawing Framework (OGDF).
 *
 * \par
 * Copyright (C)<br>
 * See README.txt in the root directory of the OGDF installation for details.
 *
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 * \see  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
 ***************************************************************/


#ifdef _MSC_VER
#pragma once
#endif

#ifndef OGDF_BC_TREE_H
#define OGDF_BC_TREE_H

#include <ogdf/basic/BoundedStack.h>
#include <ogdf/basic/EdgeArray.h>
#include <ogdf/basic/NodeArray.h>
#include <ogdf/basic/SList.h>

namespace ogdf {

/**
 * \brief Static BC-trees.
 *
 * This class provides static BC-trees.\n
 * The data structure consists of three parts:
 * - The original graph itself (\e G) is represented by an ordinary ogdf::Graph
 *   structure.
 * - The BC-tree (\e B) is represented by an ogdf::Graph structure, each
 *   vertex representing a B-component or a C-component.
 * - The biconnected components graph (\e H), which contains a set of copies of
 *   the biconnected components and the cut-vertices of the original graph,
 *   combined but not interconnected within a single ogdf::Graph structure.
 */
class OGDF_EXPORT BCTree {

public:

/** \enum GNodeType
 * \brief Enumeration type for characterizing the vertices of the original
 * graph.
 */
/** \var GNodeType ogdf::BCTree::Normal
 * denotes an ordinary vertex, i.e. not a cut-vertex.
 */
/** \var GNodeType ogdf::BCTree::CutVertex
 * denotes a cut-vertex.
 */
	enum GNodeType { Normal, CutVertex };
/** \enum BNodeType
 * \brief Enumeration type for characterizing the BC-tree-vertices.
 */
/** \var BNodeType ogdf::BCTree::BComp
 * denotes a vertex representing a B-component.
 */
/** \var BNodeType ogdf::BCTree::CComp
 * denotes a vertex representing a C-component.
 */
	enum BNodeType { BComp, CComp };

protected:

/**
 * \brief The original graph.
 */
	Graph& m_G;
/**
 * \brief The BC-tree.
 *
 * Each vertex is representing a biconnected component (B-component) or a
 * cut-vertex (C-component) of the original graph.
 */
	Graph m_B;
/**
 * \brief The biconnected components graph.
 *
 * This graph contains copies of the biconnected components (B-components)
 * and the cut-vertices (C-components) of the original graph. The copies of the
 * B- and C-components of the original graph are not interconnected, i.e. the
 * biconnected components graph is representing B-components as isolated
 * biconnected subgraphs and C-components as isolated single vertices. Thus the
 * copies of the edges and non-cut-vertices of the original graph are
 * unambiguous, but each cut-vertex of the original graph being common to a
 * C-component and several B-components appears multiple times.
 */
	mutable Graph m_H;

/** @{
 * \brief The number of B-components.
 */
	int m_numB;
/**
 * \brief The number of C-components.
 */
	int m_numC;

/** @} @{
 * \brief Array of marks for the vertices of the original graph.
 *
 * They are needed during the generation of the BC-tree by DFS method.
 */
	NodeArray<bool> m_gNode_isMarked;
/**
 * \brief An injective mapping vertices(\e G) -> vertices(\e H).
 *
 * For each vertex \e vG of the original graph:
 * - If \e vG is not a cut-vertex, then m_gNode_hNode[\e vG] is the very vertex
 *   of the biconnected components graph corresponding to \e vG.
 * - If \e vG is a cut-vertex, then m_gNode_hNode[\e vG] is the very vertex of
 *   the biconnected components graph representing the C-component, which \e vG
 *   is belonging to, as a single isolated vertex.
 */
	NodeArray<node> m_gNode_hNode;
/**
 * \brief A bijective mapping edges(\e G) -> edges(\e H).
 *
 * For each edge \e eG of the original graph, m_gEdge_hEdge[\e eG] is the very
 * edge of the biconnected components graph corresponding to \e eG.
 */
	EdgeArray<edge> m_gEdge_hEdge;

/** @} @{
 * \brief Array that contains the type of each BC-tree-vertex.
 */
	NodeArray<BNodeType> m_bNode_type;
/**
 * \brief Array of marks for the BC-tree-vertices.
 *
 * They are needed for searching for the nearest common ancestor of two
 * vertices of the BC-tree.
 */
	mutable NodeArray<bool> m_bNode_isMarked;
/**
 * \brief Array that contains for each BC-tree-vertex the representant of its
 * parent within the subgraph in the biconnected components graph belonging to
 * the biconnected component represented by the respective BC-tree-vertex.
 *
 * For each vertex \e vB of the BC-tree:
 * - If \e vB is representing a B-component and \e vB is the root of the
 *   BC-tree, then m_bNode_hRefNode[\e vB] is \e NULL.
 * - If \e vB is representing a B-component and \e vB is not the root of the
 *   BC-tree, then m_bNode_hRefNode[\e vB] is the very vertex of the
 *   biconnected components graph which is the duplicate of the cut-vertex
 *   represented by the parent of \e vB <em>in the copy of the B-component
 *   represented by</em> \e vB.
 * - If \e vB is representing a C-component, then m_bNode_hRefNode[\e vB]
 *   is the single isolated vertex of the biconnected components graph
 *   corresponding to the cut-vertex which the C-component consists of,
 *   irrespective of whether \e vB is the root of the BC-tree or not.
 */
	NodeArray<node> m_bNode_hRefNode;
/**
 * \brief Array that contains for each BC-tree-vertex the representant of
 * itself within the subgraph in the biconnected components graph belonging to
 * the biconnected component represented by the parent of the respective
 * BC-tree-vertex.
 *
 * - If \e vB is the root of the BC-tree, then m_bNode_hParNode[\e vB] is
 *   \e NULL.
 * - If \e vB is representing a B-component and \e vB is not the root of the
 *   BC-tree, then m_bNode_hParNode[\e vB] is the single isolated vertex
 *   of the biconnected components graph corresponding to the very cut-vertex,
 *   which the C-component represented by <em>the parent of</em> \e vB consists
 *   of.
 * - If \e vB is representing to a C-component and \e vB is not the root of the
 *   BC-tree, then m_bNode_hParNode[\e vB] is the very vertex of the
 *   biconnected components graph, which is the duplicate of the cut-vertex,
 *   which the C-component consists of, <em>in the copy of the B-component
 *   represented by the parent of</em> \e vB.
 */
	NodeArray<node> m_bNode_hParNode;
/**
 * \brief Array that contains for each BC-tree-vertex a linear list of the
 * edges of the biconnected components graph belonging to the biconnected
 * component represented by the respective BC-tree-vertex.
 *
 * For each vertex \e vB of the BC-tree:
 * - If \e vB is representing a B-component, then m_bNode_hEdges[\e vB] is a
 *   linear list of the edges of the biconnected components graph corresponding
 *   to the edges of the original graph belonging to the B-component.
 * - If \e vB is representing a C-component, then m_bNode_hEdges[\e vB] is an
 *   empty list.
 */
	NodeArray<SList<edge> > m_bNode_hEdges;
/**
 * \brief Array that contains for each BC-tree-vertex the number of vertices
 * belonging to the biconnected component represented by the respective
 * BC-tree-vertex.
 *
 * For each vertex \e vB of the BC-tree:
 * - If \e vB is representing a B-component, then m_bNode_numNodes[\e vB] is
 *   the number of vertices belonging to the B-component, cut-vertices
 *   inclusive.
 * - If \e vB is representing a C-component, then m_bNode_numNodes[\e vB] is 1.
 */
	NodeArray<int> m_bNode_numNodes;

/** @} @{
 * \brief A surjective mapping vertices(\e H) -> vertices(\e B).
 *
 * For each vertex \e vH of the biconnected components graph,
 * m_hNode_bNode[\e vH] is the very BC-tree-vertex representing the B- or
 * C-component with respect to the copy of the very block or representation
 * of a cut-vertex, which vH is belonging to.
 */
	mutable NodeArray<node> m_hNode_bNode;
/**
 * \brief A surjective mapping edges(\e H) -> vertices(\e B).
 *
 * For each edge \e eH of the biconnected components graph,
 * m_hEdge_bNode[\e eH] is the very BC-tree-vertex representing the unambiguous
 * B-component, which \e eH is belonging to.
 */
	mutable EdgeArray<node> m_hEdge_bNode;
/**
 * \brief A surjective mapping vertices(\e H) -> vertices(\e G).
 *
 * For each vertex \e vH of the biconnected components graph,
 * m_hNode_gNode[\e vH] is the vertex of the original graph which \e vH is
 * corresponding to.
 */
	NodeArray<node> m_hNode_gNode;
/**
 * \brief A bijective mapping edges(\e H) -> edges(\e G).
 *
 * For each edge \e eH of the biconnected components graph,
 * m_hEdge_gEdge[\e eH] is the edge of the original graph which \e eH is
 * corresponding to.
 */
	EdgeArray<edge> m_hEdge_gEdge;

/** @} @{
 * \brief Temporary variable.
 *
 * It is needed for the generation of the BC-tree by DFS method. It has to be a
 * member of class BCTree due to recursive calls to biComp().
 */
	int m_count;
/**
 * \brief Temporary array.
 *
 * It is needed for the generation of the BC-tree by DFS method. It has to be a
 * member of class BCTree due to recursive calls to biComp().
*/
	NodeArray<int> m_number;
/**
 * \brief Temporary array.
 *
 * It is needed for the generation of the BC-tree by DFS method. It has to be a
 * member of class BCTree due to recursive calls to biComp().
 */
	NodeArray<int> m_lowpt;
/**
 * \brief Temporary stack.
 *
 * It is needed for the generation of the BC-tree by DFS method. It has to be a
 * member of class BCTree due to recursive calls to biComp().
 */
	BoundedStack<adjEntry> m_eStack;
/**
 * \brief Temporary array.
 *
 * It is needed for the generation of the BC-tree by DFS method. It has to be a
 * member of class BCTree due to recursive calls to biComp().
 */
	NodeArray<node> m_gtoh;
/**
 * \brief Temporary list.
 *
 * It is needed for the generation of the BC-tree by DFS method. It has to be a
 * member of class BCTree due to recursive calls to biComp().
 */
	SList<node> m_nodes;

/** @}
 * \brief Initialization.
 *
 * initializes all data structures and generates the BC-tree and the
 * biconnected components graph by call to biComp().
 * \param vG is the vertex of the original graph which the DFS algorithm starts
 * with.
 */
	void init (node vG);

/** @}
 * \brief Initialization for not connected graphs
 *
 * initializes all data structures and generates a forest of BC-trees and the
 * biconnected components graph by call to biComp().
 * \param vG is the vertex of the original graph which the DFS algorithm starts
 * first with.
 */
	void initNotConnected (node vG);
/**
 * \brief generates the BC-tree and the biconnected components graph
 * recursively.
 *
 * The DFS algorithm is based on J. Hopcroft and R. E. Tarjan: Algorithm 447:
 * Efficient algorithms for graph manipulation. <em>Comm. ACM</em>, 16:372-378
 * (1973).
 */
	void biComp (adjEntry adjuG, node vG);

/** @{
 * \brief returns the parent of a given BC-tree-vertex.
 * \param vB is a vertex of the BC-tree or \e NULL.
 * \return the parent of \a vB in the BC-tree structure, if \a vB is not the
 * root of the BC-tree, and \e NULL, if \a vB is \e NULL or the root of the
 * BC-tree.
 */
	virtual node parent (node vB) const;
/**
 * \brief calculates the nearest common ancestor of two vertices of the
 * BC-tree.
 * \param uB is a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \param vB is a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \return the nearest common ancestor of \a uB and \a vB.
 */
	node findNCA (node uB, node vB) const;

public:

/** @}
 * \brief A constructor.
 *
 * This constructor does only call init() or initNotConnected().
 * BCTree(\a G) is equivalent to BCTree(<em>G</em>,<em>G</em>.firstNode()).
 * \param G is the original graph.
 * \param callInitConnected decides which init is called, default call is init()
 */
	BCTree (Graph& G, bool callInitConnected = false) : m_G(G), m_eStack(G.numberOfEdges()) {
		if (!callInitConnected)
			init(G.firstNode());
		else initNotConnected(G.firstNode());
	}

/**
 * \brief A constructor.
 *
 * This constructor does only call init() or initNotConnected().
 * \param G is the original graph.
 * \param vG is the vertex of the original graph which the DFS algorithm starts
 * \param callInitConnected decides which init is called, default call is init()
 */
	BCTree (Graph& G, node vG, bool callInitConnected = false) : m_G(G), m_eStack(G.numberOfEdges()) {
		if (!callInitConnected)
			init(vG);
		else initNotConnected(vG);
	}

/**
 * \brief Virtual destructor.
 */
	virtual ~BCTree () { }

/** @{
 * \brief returns the original graph.
 * \return the original graph.
 */
	const Graph& originalGraph () const { return m_G; }
/**
 * \brief returns the BC-tree graph.
 * \return the BC-tree graph.
 */
	const Graph& bcTree () const { return m_B; }
/**
 * \brief returns the biconnected components graph.
 * \return the biconnected components graph.
 */
	const Graph& auxiliaryGraph () const { return m_H; }

/** @} @{
 * \brief returns the number of B-components.
 * \return the number of B-components.
 */
	int numberOfBComps () const { return m_numB; }
/**
 * \brief returns the number of C-components.
 * \return the number of C-components.
 */
	int numberOfCComps () const { return m_numC; }

/** @} @{
 * \brief returns the type of a vertex of the original graph.
 * \param vG is a vertex of the original graph.
 * \return the type of \a vG.
 */
	GNodeType typeOfGNode (node vG) const { return m_bNode_type[m_hNode_bNode[m_gNode_hNode[vG]]]==BComp ? Normal : CutVertex; }
/**
 * \brief returns a BC-tree-vertex representing a biconnected component which a
 * given vertex of the original graph is belonging to.
 * \param vG is a vertex of the original graph.
 * \return a vertex of the BC-tree:
 * - If \a vG is not a cut-vertex, then typeOfGNode(\a vG) returns the very
 *   vertex of the BC-tree representing the unambiguous B-component which \a vG
 *   is belonging to.
 * - If \a vG is a cut-vertex, then typeOfGNode(\a vG) returns the very vertex
 *   of the BC-tree representing the unambiguous C-component which \a vG is
 *   belonging to.
 */
	virtual node bcproper (node vG) const { return m_hNode_bNode[m_gNode_hNode[vG]]; }
/**
 * \brief returns the BC-tree-vertex representing the biconnected component
 * which a given edge of the original graph is belonging to.
 * \param eG is an edge of the original graph.
 * \return the vertex of the BC-tree representing the B-component which \a eG
 * is belonging to.
 */
	virtual node bcproper (edge eG) const { return m_hEdge_bNode[m_gEdge_hEdge[eG]]; }
/**
 * \brief returns a vertex of the biconnected components graph corresponding to
 * a given vertex of the original graph.
 * \param vG is a vertex of the original graph.
 * \return a vertex of the biconnected components graph:
 * - If \a vG is not a cut-vertex, then rep(\a vG) returns the very vertex of
 *   the biconnected components graph corresponding to \a vG.
 * - If \a vG is a cut-vertex, then rep(\a vG) returns the very vertex of the
 *   biconnected components graph representing the C-component which \a vG is
 *   belonging to.
 */
	node rep (node vG) const { return m_gNode_hNode[vG]; }
/**
 * \brief returns the edge of the biconnected components graph corresponding to
 * a given edge of the original graph.
 * \param eG is an edge of the original graph.
 * \return the edge of the biconnected components graph corresponding to \a eG.
 */
	edge rep (edge eG) const { return m_gEdge_hEdge[eG]; }

/** @} @{
 * \brief returns the vertex of the original graph which a given vertex of the
 * biconnected components graph is corresponding to.
 * \param vH is a vertex of the biconnected components graph.
 * \return the vertex of the original graph which \a vH is corresponding to.
 */
	node original (node vH) { return m_hNode_gNode[vH]; }
/**
 * \brief returns the edge of the original graph which a given edge of the
 * biconnected components graph is corresponding to.
 * \param eH is an edge of the biconnected components graph.
 * \return the edge of the original graph which \a eH is corresponding to.
 */
	edge original (edge eH) const { return m_hEdge_gEdge[eH]; }

/** @} @{
 * \brief returns the type of the biconnected component represented by a given
 * BC-tree-vertex.
 * \param vB is a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \return the type of the biconnected component represented by \a vB.
 */
	BNodeType typeOfBNode (node vB) const { return m_bNode_type[vB]; }
/**
 * \brief returns a linear list of the edges of the biconnected components
 * graph belonging to the biconnected component represented by a given
 * BC-tree-vertex.
 * \param vB is a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \return a linear list of edges of the biconnected components graph:
 * - If \a vB is representing a B-component, then the edges in the list are the
 *   copies of the edges belonging to the B-component.
 * - If \a vB is representing a C-component, then the list is empty.
 */
	const SList<edge>& hEdges (node vB) const { return m_bNode_hEdges[vB]; }
/**
 * \brief returns the number of edges belonging to the biconnected component
 * represented by a given BC-tree-vertex.
 * \param vB is a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \return the number of edges belonging to the B- or C-component represented
 * by \a vB, particularly 0 if it is a C-component.
 */
	int numberOfEdges (node vB) const { return m_bNode_hEdges[vB].size(); }
/**
 * \brief returns the number of vertices belonging to the biconnected component
 * represented by a given BC-tree-vertex.
 * \param vB is a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \return the number of vertices belonging to the B- or C-component
 * represented by \a vB, cut-vertices inclusive, particularly 1 if it is a
 * C-component.
 */
	int numberOfNodes (node vB) const { return m_bNode_numNodes[vB]; }

/** @} @{
 * \brief returns the BC-tree-vertex representing the B-component which two
 * given vertices of the original graph are belonging to.
 * \param uG is a vertex of the original graph.
 * \param vG is a vertex of the original graph.
 * \return If \a uG and \a vG are belonging to the same B-component, the very
 * vertex of the BC-tree representing this B-component is returned. Otherwise,
 * \e NULL is returned. This member function returns the representative of the
 * correct B-component even if \a uG or \a vG or either are cut-vertices and
 * are therefore belonging to C-components, too.
 */
	node bComponent (node uG, node vG) const;

/**
 * \brief calculates a path in the BC-tree.
 * \param sG is a vertex of the original graph.
 * \param tG is a vertex of the original graph.
 * \return the path from bcproper(\a sG) to bcproper(\a tG) in the BC-tree as a
 * linear list of vertices.
 * \post <b>The SList<node> instance is created by this function and has to be
 * destructed by the caller!</b>
 */
	SList<node>& findPath (node sG, node tG) const;

/**
 * \brief calculates a path in the BC-tree.
 * \param sB is a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \param tB is a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \return the path from (\a sB) to bcproper(\a tB) in the BC-tree as a
 * linear list of vertices.
 * \post <b>The SList<node> instance is created by this function and has to be
 * destructed by the caller!</b>
 */
	SList<node>* findPathBCTree (node sB, node tB) const;

/**
 * \brief returns a vertex of the biconnected components graph corresponding to
 * a given vertex of the original graph and belonging to the representation of
 * a certain biconnected component given by a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \param uG is a vertex of the original graph.
 * \param vB is a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \return a vertex of the biconnected components graph:
 * - If \a uG is belonging to the biconnected component represented by \a vB,
 *   then repVertex(\a uG,\a vB) returns the very vertex of the biconnected
 *   components graph corresponding to \a uG within the representation of
 *   \a vB.
 * - Otherwise, repVertex(\a uG,\a vB) returns \e NULL.
 */
	virtual node repVertex (node uG, node vB) const;
/**
 * \brief returns the copy of a cut-vertex in the biconnected components graph
 * which belongs to a certain B-component and leads to another B-component.
 *
 * If two BC-tree-vertices are neighbours, then the biconnected components
 * represented by them have exactly one cut-vertex in common. But there are
 * several copies of this cut-vertex in the biconnected components graph,
 * namely one copy for each biconnected component which the cut-vertex is
 * belonging to. The member function rep() had been designed for returning the
 * very copy of the cut-vertex belonging to the copy of the unambiguous
 * C-component which it is belonging to, whereas this member function is
 * designed to return the very copy of the cut-vertex connecting two
 * biconnected components which belongs to the copy of the second one.
 * \param uB is a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \param vB is a vertex of the BC-tree.
 * \return a vertex of the biconnected components graph:
 * - If \a uB == \a vB and they are representing a B-component, then
 *   cutVertex(\a uB,\a vB) returns \e NULL.
 * - If \a uB == \a vB and they are representing a C-component, then
 *   cutVertex(\a uB,\a vB) returns the single isolated vertex of the
 *   biconnected components graph which is the copy of the C-component.
 * - If \a uB and \a vB are \e neighbours in the BC-tree, then there exists
 *   a cut-vertex leading from the biconnected component represented by \a vB
 *   to the biconnected component represented by \a uB. cutVertex(\a uB,\a vB)
 *   returns the very copy of this vertex within the biconnected components
 *   graph which belongs to the copy of the biconnected component represented
 *   by \a vB.
 * - Otherwise, cutVertex(\a uB,\a vB) returns \e NULL.
 */
	virtual node cutVertex (node uB, node vB) const;

/** @}
 */
private:
	// avoid automatic creation of assignment operator

	//! Copy constructor is undefined!
	BCTree(const BCTree &);

	//! Assignment operator is undefined!
	BCTree &operator=(const BCTree &);
};

}

#endif