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     6  * Egervary Jeno Kombinatorikus Optimalizalasi Kutatocsoport
     7  * (Egervary Research Group on Combinatorial Optimization, EGRES).
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    18 
    19 namespace lemon {
    20 
    21 /**
    22 @defgroup datas Data Structures
    23 This group contains the several data structures implemented in LEMON.
    24 */
    25 
    26 /**
    27 @defgroup graphs Graph Structures
    28 @ingroup datas
    29 \brief Graph structures implemented in LEMON.
    30 
    31 The implementation of combinatorial algorithms heavily relies on
    32 efficient graph implementations. LEMON offers data structures which are
    33 planned to be easily used in an experimental phase of implementation studies,
    34 and thereafter the program code can be made efficient by small modifications.
    35 
    36 The most efficient implementation of diverse applications require the
    37 usage of different physical graph implementations. These differences
    38 appear in the size of graph we require to handle, memory or time usage
    39 limitations or in the set of operations through which the graph can be
    40 accessed.  LEMON provides several physical graph structures to meet
    41 the diverging requirements of the possible users.  In order to save on
    42 running time or on memory usage, some structures may fail to provide
    43 some graph features like arc/edge or node deletion.
    44 
    45 Alteration of standard containers need a very limited number of
    46 operations, these together satisfy the everyday requirements.
    47 In the case of graph structures, different operations are needed which do
    48 not alter the physical graph, but gives another view. If some nodes or
    49 arcs have to be hidden or the reverse oriented graph have to be used, then
    50 this is the case. It also may happen that in a flow implementation
    51 the residual graph can be accessed by another algorithm, or a node-set
    52 is to be shrunk for another algorithm.
    53 LEMON also provides a variety of graphs for these requirements called
    54 \ref graph_adaptors "graph adaptors". Adaptors cannot be used alone but only
    55 in conjunction with other graph representations.
    56 
    57 You are free to use the graph structure that fit your requirements
    58 the best, most graph algorithms and auxiliary data structures can be used
    59 with any graph structure.
    60 
    61 <b>See also:</b> \ref graph_concepts "Graph Structure Concepts".
    62 */
    63 
    64 /**
    65 @defgroup graph_adaptors Adaptor Classes for Graphs
    66 @ingroup graphs
    67 \brief Adaptor classes for digraphs and graphs
    68 
    69 This group contains several useful adaptor classes for digraphs and graphs.
    70 
    71 The main parts of LEMON are the different graph structures, generic
    72 graph algorithms, graph concepts, which couple them, and graph
    73 adaptors. While the previous notions are more or less clear, the
    74 latter one needs further explanation. Graph adaptors are graph classes
    75 which serve for considering graph structures in different ways.
    76 
    77 A short example makes this much clearer.  Suppose that we have an
    78 instance \c g of a directed graph type, say ListDigraph and an algorithm
    79 \code
    80 template <typename Digraph>
    81 int algorithm(const Digraph&);
    82 \endcode
    83 is needed to run on the reverse oriented graph.  It may be expensive
    84 (in time or in memory usage) to copy \c g with the reversed
    85 arcs.  In this case, an adaptor class is used, which (according
    86 to LEMON \ref concepts::Digraph "digraph concepts") works as a digraph.
    87 The adaptor uses the original digraph structure and digraph operations when
    88 methods of the reversed oriented graph are called.  This means that the adaptor
    89 have minor memory usage, and do not perform sophisticated algorithmic
    90 actions.  The purpose of it is to give a tool for the cases when a
    91 graph have to be used in a specific alteration.  If this alteration is
    92 obtained by a usual construction like filtering the node or the arc set or
    93 considering a new orientation, then an adaptor is worthwhile to use.
    94 To come back to the reverse oriented graph, in this situation
    95 \code
    96 template<typename Digraph> class ReverseDigraph;
    97 \endcode
    98 template class can be used. The code looks as follows
    99 \code
   100 ListDigraph g;
   101 ReverseDigraph<ListDigraph> rg(g);
   102 int result = algorithm(rg);
   103 \endcode
   104 During running the algorithm, the original digraph \c g is untouched.
   105 This techniques give rise to an elegant code, and based on stable
   106 graph adaptors, complex algorithms can be implemented easily.
   107 
   108 In flow, circulation and matching problems, the residual
   109 graph is of particular importance. Combining an adaptor implementing
   110 this with shortest path algorithms or minimum mean cycle algorithms,
   111 a range of weighted and cardinality optimization algorithms can be
   112 obtained. For other examples, the interested user is referred to the
   113 detailed documentation of particular adaptors.
   114 
   115 The behavior of graph adaptors can be very different. Some of them keep
   116 capabilities of the original graph while in other cases this would be
   117 meaningless. This means that the concepts that they meet depend
   118 on the graph adaptor, and the wrapped graph.
   119 For example, if an arc of a reversed digraph is deleted, this is carried
   120 out by deleting the corresponding arc of the original digraph, thus the
   121 adaptor modifies the original digraph.
   122 However in case of a residual digraph, this operation has no sense.
   123 
   124 Let us stand one more example here to simplify your work.
   125 ReverseDigraph has constructor
   126 \code
   127 ReverseDigraph(Digraph& digraph);
   128 \endcode
   129 This means that in a situation, when a <tt>const %ListDigraph&</tt>
   130 reference to a graph is given, then it have to be instantiated with
   131 <tt>Digraph=const %ListDigraph</tt>.
   132 \code
   133 int algorithm1(const ListDigraph& g) {
   134   ReverseDigraph<const ListDigraph> rg(g);
   135   return algorithm2(rg);
   136 }
   137 \endcode
   138 */
   139 
   140 /**
   141 @defgroup maps Maps
   142 @ingroup datas
   143 \brief Map structures implemented in LEMON.
   144 
   145 This group contains the map structures implemented in LEMON.
   146 
   147 LEMON provides several special purpose maps and map adaptors that e.g. combine
   148 new maps from existing ones.
   149 
   150 <b>See also:</b> \ref map_concepts "Map Concepts".
   151 */
   152 
   153 /**
   154 @defgroup graph_maps Graph Maps
   155 @ingroup maps
   156 \brief Special graph-related maps.
   157 
   158 This group contains maps that are specifically designed to assign
   159 values to the nodes and arcs/edges of graphs.
   160 
   161 If you are looking for the standard graph maps (\c NodeMap, \c ArcMap,
   162 \c EdgeMap), see the \ref graph_concepts "Graph Structure Concepts".
   163 */
   164 
   165 /**
   166 \defgroup map_adaptors Map Adaptors
   167 \ingroup maps
   168 \brief Tools to create new maps from existing ones
   169 
   170 This group contains map adaptors that are used to create "implicit"
   171 maps from other maps.
   172 
   173 Most of them are \ref concepts::ReadMap "read-only maps".
   174 They can make arithmetic and logical operations between one or two maps
   175 (negation, shifting, addition, multiplication, logical 'and', 'or',
   176 'not' etc.) or e.g. convert a map to another one of different Value type.
   177 
   178 The typical usage of this classes is passing implicit maps to
   179 algorithms.  If a function type algorithm is called then the function
   180 type map adaptors can be used comfortable. For example let's see the
   181 usage of map adaptors with the \c graphToEps() function.
   182 \code
   183   Color nodeColor(int deg) {
   184     if (deg >= 2) {
   185       return Color(0.5, 0.0, 0.5);
   186     } else if (deg == 1) {
   187       return Color(1.0, 0.5, 1.0);
   188     } else {
   189       return Color(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
   190     }
   191   }
   192 
   193   Digraph::NodeMap<int> degree_map(graph);
   194 
   195   graphToEps(graph, "graph.eps")
   196     .coords(coords).scaleToA4().undirected()
   197     .nodeColors(composeMap(functorToMap(nodeColor), degree_map))
   198     .run();
   199 \endcode
   200 The \c functorToMap() function makes an \c int to \c Color map from the
   201 \c nodeColor() function. The \c composeMap() compose the \c degree_map
   202 and the previously created map. The composed map is a proper function to
   203 get the color of each node.
   204 
   205 The usage with class type algorithms is little bit harder. In this
   206 case the function type map adaptors can not be used, because the
   207 function map adaptors give back temporary objects.
   208 \code
   209   Digraph graph;
   210 
   211   typedef Digraph::ArcMap<double> DoubleArcMap;
   212   DoubleArcMap length(graph);
   213   DoubleArcMap speed(graph);
   214 
   215   typedef DivMap<DoubleArcMap, DoubleArcMap> TimeMap;
   216   TimeMap time(length, speed);
   217 
   218   Dijkstra<Digraph, TimeMap> dijkstra(graph, time);
   219   dijkstra.run(source, target);
   220 \endcode
   221 We have a length map and a maximum speed map on the arcs of a digraph.
   222 The minimum time to pass the arc can be calculated as the division of
   223 the two maps which can be done implicitly with the \c DivMap template
   224 class. We use the implicit minimum time map as the length map of the
   225 \c Dijkstra algorithm.
   226 */
   227 
   228 /**
   229 @defgroup paths Path Structures
   230 @ingroup datas
   231 \brief %Path structures implemented in LEMON.
   232 
   233 This group contains the path structures implemented in LEMON.
   234 
   235 LEMON provides flexible data structures to work with paths.
   236 All of them have similar interfaces and they can be copied easily with
   237 assignment operators and copy constructors. This makes it easy and
   238 efficient to have e.g. the Dijkstra algorithm to store its result in
   239 any kind of path structure.
   240 
   241 \sa lemon::concepts::Path
   242 */
   243 
   244 /**
   245 @defgroup auxdat Auxiliary Data Structures
   246 @ingroup datas
   247 \brief Auxiliary data structures implemented in LEMON.
   248 
   249 This group contains some data structures implemented in LEMON in
   250 order to make it easier to implement combinatorial algorithms.
   251 */
   252 
   253 /**
   254 @defgroup geomdat Geometric Data Structures
   255 @ingroup auxdat
   256 \brief Geometric data structures implemented in LEMON.
   257 
   258 This group contains geometric data structures implemented in LEMON.
   259 
   260  - \ref lemon::dim2::Point "dim2::Point" implements a two dimensional
   261    vector with the usual operations.
   262  - \ref lemon::dim2::Box "dim2::Box" can be used to determine the
   263    rectangular bounding box of a set of \ref lemon::dim2::Point
   264    "dim2::Point"'s.
   265 */
   266 
   267 /**
   268 @defgroup matrices Matrices
   269 @ingroup auxdat
   270 \brief Two dimensional data storages implemented in LEMON.
   271 
   272 This group contains two dimensional data storages implemented in LEMON.
   273 */
   274 
   275 /**
   276 @defgroup algs Algorithms
   277 \brief This group contains the several algorithms
   278 implemented in LEMON.
   279 
   280 This group contains the several algorithms
   281 implemented in LEMON.
   282 */
   283 
   284 /**
   285 @defgroup search Graph Search
   286 @ingroup algs
   287 \brief Common graph search algorithms.
   288 
   289 This group contains the common graph search algorithms, namely
   290 \e breadth-first \e search (BFS) and \e depth-first \e search (DFS).
   291 */
   292 
   293 /**
   294 @defgroup shortest_path Shortest Path Algorithms
   295 @ingroup algs
   296 \brief Algorithms for finding shortest paths.
   297 
   298 This group contains the algorithms for finding shortest paths in digraphs.
   299 
   300  - \ref Dijkstra algorithm for finding shortest paths from a source node
   301    when all arc lengths are non-negative.
   302  - \ref BellmanFord "Bellman-Ford" algorithm for finding shortest paths
   303    from a source node when arc lenghts can be either positive or negative,
   304    but the digraph should not contain directed cycles with negative total
   305    length.
   306  - \ref FloydWarshall "Floyd-Warshall" and \ref Johnson "Johnson" algorithms
   307    for solving the \e all-pairs \e shortest \e paths \e problem when arc
   308    lenghts can be either positive or negative, but the digraph should
   309    not contain directed cycles with negative total length.
   310  - \ref Suurballe A successive shortest path algorithm for finding
   311    arc-disjoint paths between two nodes having minimum total length.
   312 */
   313 
   314 /**
   315 @defgroup spantree Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms
   316 @ingroup algs
   317 \brief Algorithms for finding minimum cost spanning trees and arborescences.
   318 
   319 This group contains the algorithms for finding minimum cost spanning
   320 trees and arborescences.
   321 */
   322 
   323 /**
   324 @defgroup max_flow Maximum Flow Algorithms
   325 @ingroup algs
   326 \brief Algorithms for finding maximum flows.
   327 
   328 This group contains the algorithms for finding maximum flows and
   329 feasible circulations.
   330 
   331 The \e maximum \e flow \e problem is to find a flow of maximum value between
   332 a single source and a single target. Formally, there is a \f$G=(V,A)\f$
   333 digraph, a \f$cap: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}^+_0\f$ capacity function and
   334 \f$s, t \in V\f$ source and target nodes.
   335 A maximum flow is an \f$f: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}^+_0\f$ solution of the
   336 following optimization problem.
   337 
   338 \f[ \max\sum_{sv\in A} f(sv) - \sum_{vs\in A} f(vs) \f]
   339 \f[ \sum_{uv\in A} f(uv) = \sum_{vu\in A} f(vu)
   340     \quad \forall u\in V\setminus\{s,t\} \f]
   341 \f[ 0 \leq f(uv) \leq cap(uv) \quad \forall uv\in A \f]
   342 
   343 LEMON contains several algorithms for solving maximum flow problems:
   344 - \ref EdmondsKarp Edmonds-Karp algorithm.
   345 - \ref Preflow Goldberg-Tarjan's preflow push-relabel algorithm.
   346 - \ref DinitzSleatorTarjan Dinitz's blocking flow algorithm with dynamic trees.
   347 - \ref GoldbergTarjan Preflow push-relabel algorithm with dynamic trees.
   348 
   349 In most cases the \ref Preflow "Preflow" algorithm provides the
   350 fastest method for computing a maximum flow. All implementations
   351 also provide functions to query the minimum cut, which is the dual
   352 problem of maximum flow.
   353 
   354 \ref Circulation is a preflow push-relabel algorithm implemented directly 
   355 for finding feasible circulations, which is a somewhat different problem,
   356 but it is strongly related to maximum flow.
   357 For more information, see \ref Circulation.
   358 */
   359 
   360 /**
   361 @defgroup min_cost_flow_algs Minimum Cost Flow Algorithms
   362 @ingroup algs
   363 
   364 \brief Algorithms for finding minimum cost flows and circulations.
   365 
   366 This group contains the algorithms for finding minimum cost flows and
   367 circulations. For more information about this problem and its dual
   368 solution see \ref min_cost_flow "Minimum Cost Flow Problem".
   369 
   370 LEMON contains several algorithms for this problem.
   371  - \ref NetworkSimplex Primal Network Simplex algorithm with various
   372    pivot strategies.
   373  - \ref CostScaling Push-Relabel and Augment-Relabel algorithms based on
   374    cost scaling.
   375  - \ref CapacityScaling Successive Shortest %Path algorithm with optional
   376    capacity scaling.
   377  - \ref CancelAndTighten The Cancel and Tighten algorithm.
   378  - \ref CycleCanceling Cycle-Canceling algorithms.
   379 
   380 In general NetworkSimplex is the most efficient implementation,
   381 but in special cases other algorithms could be faster.
   382 For example, if the total supply and/or capacities are rather small,
   383 CapacityScaling is usually the fastest algorithm (without effective scaling).
   384 */
   385 
   386 /**
   387 @defgroup min_cut Minimum Cut Algorithms
   388 @ingroup algs
   389 
   390 \brief Algorithms for finding minimum cut in graphs.
   391 
   392 This group contains the algorithms for finding minimum cut in graphs.
   393 
   394 The \e minimum \e cut \e problem is to find a non-empty and non-complete
   395 \f$X\f$ subset of the nodes with minimum overall capacity on
   396 outgoing arcs. Formally, there is a \f$G=(V,A)\f$ digraph, a
   397 \f$cap: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}^+_0\f$ capacity function. The minimum
   398 cut is the \f$X\f$ solution of the next optimization problem:
   399 
   400 \f[ \min_{X \subset V, X\not\in \{\emptyset, V\}}
   401     \sum_{uv\in A: u\in X, v\not\in X}cap(uv) \f]
   402 
   403 LEMON contains several algorithms related to minimum cut problems:
   404 
   405 - \ref HaoOrlin "Hao-Orlin algorithm" for calculating minimum cut
   406   in directed graphs.
   407 - \ref NagamochiIbaraki "Nagamochi-Ibaraki algorithm" for
   408   calculating minimum cut in undirected graphs.
   409 - \ref GomoryHu "Gomory-Hu tree computation" for calculating
   410   all-pairs minimum cut in undirected graphs.
   411 
   412 If you want to find minimum cut just between two distinict nodes,
   413 see the \ref max_flow "maximum flow problem".
   414 */
   415 
   416 /**
   417 @defgroup matching Matching Algorithms
   418 @ingroup algs
   419 \brief Algorithms for finding matchings in graphs and bipartite graphs.
   420 
   421 This group contains the algorithms for calculating
   422 matchings in graphs and bipartite graphs. The general matching problem is
   423 finding a subset of the edges for which each node has at most one incident
   424 edge.
   425 
   426 There are several different algorithms for calculate matchings in
   427 graphs.  The matching problems in bipartite graphs are generally
   428 easier than in general graphs. The goal of the matching optimization
   429 can be finding maximum cardinality, maximum weight or minimum cost
   430 matching. The search can be constrained to find perfect or
   431 maximum cardinality matching.
   432 
   433 The matching algorithms implemented in LEMON:
   434 - \ref MaxBipartiteMatching Hopcroft-Karp augmenting path algorithm
   435   for calculating maximum cardinality matching in bipartite graphs.
   436 - \ref PrBipartiteMatching Push-relabel algorithm
   437   for calculating maximum cardinality matching in bipartite graphs.
   438 - \ref MaxWeightedBipartiteMatching
   439   Successive shortest path algorithm for calculating maximum weighted
   440   matching and maximum weighted bipartite matching in bipartite graphs.
   441 - \ref MinCostMaxBipartiteMatching
   442   Successive shortest path algorithm for calculating minimum cost maximum
   443   matching in bipartite graphs.
   444 - \ref MaxMatching Edmond's blossom shrinking algorithm for calculating
   445   maximum cardinality matching in general graphs.
   446 - \ref MaxWeightedMatching Edmond's blossom shrinking algorithm for calculating
   447   maximum weighted matching in general graphs.
   448 - \ref MaxWeightedPerfectMatching
   449   Edmond's blossom shrinking algorithm for calculating maximum weighted
   450   perfect matching in general graphs.
   451 
   452 \image html bipartite_matching.png
   453 \image latex bipartite_matching.eps "Bipartite Matching" width=\textwidth
   454 */
   455 
   456 /**
   457 @defgroup graph_properties Connectivity and Other Graph Properties
   458 @ingroup algs
   459 \brief Algorithms for discovering the graph properties
   460 
   461 This group contains the algorithms for discovering the graph properties
   462 like connectivity, bipartiteness, euler property, simplicity etc.
   463 
   464 \image html connected_components.png
   465 \image latex connected_components.eps "Connected components" width=\textwidth
   466 */
   467 
   468 /**
   469 @defgroup planar Planarity Embedding and Drawing
   470 @ingroup algs
   471 \brief Algorithms for planarity checking, embedding and drawing
   472 
   473 This group contains the algorithms for planarity checking,
   474 embedding and drawing.
   475 
   476 \image html planar.png
   477 \image latex planar.eps "Plane graph" width=\textwidth
   478 */
   479 
   480 /**
   481 @defgroup approx Approximation Algorithms
   482 @ingroup algs
   483 \brief Approximation algorithms.
   484 
   485 This group contains the approximation and heuristic algorithms
   486 implemented in LEMON.
   487 */
   488 
   489 /**
   490 @defgroup auxalg Auxiliary Algorithms
   491 @ingroup algs
   492 \brief Auxiliary algorithms implemented in LEMON.
   493 
   494 This group contains some algorithms implemented in LEMON
   495 in order to make it easier to implement complex algorithms.
   496 */
   497 
   498 /**
   499 @defgroup gen_opt_group General Optimization Tools
   500 \brief This group contains some general optimization frameworks
   501 implemented in LEMON.
   502 
   503 This group contains some general optimization frameworks
   504 implemented in LEMON.
   505 */
   506 
   507 /**
   508 @defgroup lp_group Lp and Mip Solvers
   509 @ingroup gen_opt_group
   510 \brief Lp and Mip solver interfaces for LEMON.
   511 
   512 This group contains Lp and Mip solver interfaces for LEMON. The
   513 various LP solvers could be used in the same manner with this
   514 interface.
   515 */
   516 
   517 /**
   518 @defgroup lp_utils Tools for Lp and Mip Solvers
   519 @ingroup lp_group
   520 \brief Helper tools to the Lp and Mip solvers.
   521 
   522 This group adds some helper tools to general optimization framework
   523 implemented in LEMON.
   524 */
   525 
   526 /**
   527 @defgroup metah Metaheuristics
   528 @ingroup gen_opt_group
   529 \brief Metaheuristics for LEMON library.
   530 
   531 This group contains some metaheuristic optimization tools.
   532 */
   533 
   534 /**
   535 @defgroup utils Tools and Utilities
   536 \brief Tools and utilities for programming in LEMON
   537 
   538 Tools and utilities for programming in LEMON.
   539 */
   540 
   541 /**
   542 @defgroup gutils Basic Graph Utilities
   543 @ingroup utils
   544 \brief Simple basic graph utilities.
   545 
   546 This group contains some simple basic graph utilities.
   547 */
   548 
   549 /**
   550 @defgroup misc Miscellaneous Tools
   551 @ingroup utils
   552 \brief Tools for development, debugging and testing.
   553 
   554 This group contains several useful tools for development,
   555 debugging and testing.
   556 */
   557 
   558 /**
   559 @defgroup timecount Time Measuring and Counting
   560 @ingroup misc
   561 \brief Simple tools for measuring the performance of algorithms.
   562 
   563 This group contains simple tools for measuring the performance
   564 of algorithms.
   565 */
   566 
   567 /**
   568 @defgroup exceptions Exceptions
   569 @ingroup utils
   570 \brief Exceptions defined in LEMON.
   571 
   572 This group contains the exceptions defined in LEMON.
   573 */
   574 
   575 /**
   576 @defgroup io_group Input-Output
   577 \brief Graph Input-Output methods
   578 
   579 This group contains the tools for importing and exporting graphs
   580 and graph related data. Now it supports the \ref lgf-format
   581 "LEMON Graph Format", the \c DIMACS format and the encapsulated
   582 postscript (EPS) format.
   583 */
   584 
   585 /**
   586 @defgroup lemon_io LEMON Graph Format
   587 @ingroup io_group
   588 \brief Reading and writing LEMON Graph Format.
   589 
   590 This group contains methods for reading and writing
   591 \ref lgf-format "LEMON Graph Format".
   592 */
   593 
   594 /**
   595 @defgroup eps_io Postscript Exporting
   596 @ingroup io_group
   597 \brief General \c EPS drawer and graph exporter
   598 
   599 This group contains general \c EPS drawing methods and special
   600 graph exporting tools.
   601 */
   602 
   603 /**
   604 @defgroup dimacs_group DIMACS Format
   605 @ingroup io_group
   606 \brief Read and write files in DIMACS format
   607 
   608 Tools to read a digraph from or write it to a file in DIMACS format data.
   609 */
   610 
   611 /**
   612 @defgroup nauty_group NAUTY Format
   613 @ingroup io_group
   614 \brief Read \e Nauty format
   615 
   616 Tool to read graphs from \e Nauty format data.
   617 */
   618 
   619 /**
   620 @defgroup concept Concepts
   621 \brief Skeleton classes and concept checking classes
   622 
   623 This group contains the data/algorithm skeletons and concept checking
   624 classes implemented in LEMON.
   625 
   626 The purpose of the classes in this group is fourfold.
   627 
   628 - These classes contain the documentations of the %concepts. In order
   629   to avoid document multiplications, an implementation of a concept
   630   simply refers to the corresponding concept class.
   631 
   632 - These classes declare every functions, <tt>typedef</tt>s etc. an
   633   implementation of the %concepts should provide, however completely
   634   without implementations and real data structures behind the
   635   interface. On the other hand they should provide nothing else. All
   636   the algorithms working on a data structure meeting a certain concept
   637   should compile with these classes. (Though it will not run properly,
   638   of course.) In this way it is easily to check if an algorithm
   639   doesn't use any extra feature of a certain implementation.
   640 
   641 - The concept descriptor classes also provide a <em>checker class</em>
   642   that makes it possible to check whether a certain implementation of a
   643   concept indeed provides all the required features.
   644 
   645 - Finally, They can serve as a skeleton of a new implementation of a concept.
   646 */
   647 
   648 /**
   649 @defgroup graph_concepts Graph Structure Concepts
   650 @ingroup concept
   651 \brief Skeleton and concept checking classes for graph structures
   652 
   653 This group contains the skeletons and concept checking classes of LEMON's
   654 graph structures and helper classes used to implement these.
   655 */
   656 
   657 /**
   658 @defgroup map_concepts Map Concepts
   659 @ingroup concept
   660 \brief Skeleton and concept checking classes for maps
   661 
   662 This group contains the skeletons and concept checking classes of maps.
   663 */
   664 
   665 /**
   666 @defgroup tools Standalone Utility Applications
   667 
   668 Some utility applications are listed here.
   669 
   670 The standard compilation procedure (<tt>./configure;make</tt>) will compile
   671 them, as well.
   672 */
   673 
   674 /**
   675 \anchor demoprograms
   676 
   677 @defgroup demos Demo Programs
   678 
   679 Some demo programs are listed here. Their full source codes can be found in
   680 the \c demo subdirectory of the source tree.
   681 
   682 In order to compile them, use the <tt>make demo</tt> or the
   683 <tt>make check</tt> commands.
   684 */
   685 
   686 }