“…There are several applications, for example, in pattern recognition [12,13,22,28,29,35,37], machine learning [21], computer vision [14], image and video analysis [9,11,24,26,38] and information retrieval [19], where there is the need to measure the similarity between objects. If graphs are used for the representation of structured objects, then matching and comparing objects becomes equivalent to determining the similarity between graphs ( [1]).…”