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Orphans Adoption

The basic HCS algorithm may leave many vertices as unclustered singletons. For that reason, each singleton is checked whether it has a lot of neighbors in one of the clusters. If this is the case, the singleton is then added to that cluster. This improvement is called orphans adoption.

Peer Itsik
2001-01-31