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(*  Ocamlgraph: a generic graph library for OCaml                         *)
(*  Copyright (C) 2004-2010                                               *)
(*  Sylvain Conchon, Jean-Christophe Filliatre and Julien Signoles        *)
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(* Copyright (c) 2012 Technische Universitaet Muenchen
 * Markus W. Weissmann <markus.weissmann@in.tum.de>
 * All rights reserved. *)

(** Edge contraction for directed, edge-labeled graphs *)

(* This algorithm should be extensible to undirected, unlabeled graphs! *)

(** Minimal graph signature for edge contraction algorithm *)
module type G = sig
  type t
  module V : Sig.COMPARABLE
  type vertex = V.t
  module E : Sig.EDGE with type vertex = vertex
  type edge = E.t

  val empty : t
  val add_edge_e : t -> edge -> t
  val fold_edges_e : (edge -> 'a -> 'a) -> t -> 'a -> 'a
  val fold_vertex : (vertex -> 'a -> 'a) -> t -> 'a -> 'a
end

module Make
  (G : G) :
sig
  val contract : (G.E.t -> bool) -> G.t -> G.t
    (** [contract p g] will perform edge contraction on the graph [g].
        The edges for which the property [p] holds/is true will get contracted:
        The resulting graph will not have these edges; the start- and end-node
        of these edges will get united. *)
end

