% find a bottom to up ordering given the tree structure {pred} returned by matlab's graphminspantree function [ordering] = bottom_up_ordering(pred) %% compute the levels of the nodes parents = [0]; node_levels = zeros(length(pred), 1); current_level = 1; while ~isempty(parents) parents = find(ismember(pred, parents)); node_levels(parents) = current_level; current_level = current_level + 1; end max_level = current_level - 1; ordering = Ordering(); for level = max_level:-1:1 ids = find(node_levels==level); for i = 1:length(ids) ordering.push_back(sprintf('x%d', ids(i))); end end end