“…In the last few years a great number of problems have been dealt with in terms of edge-colored graphs for modeling purposes, as well as for theoretical investigation [3,[7][8][9]18,23]. Previous work on the subject has focused on the determination of particular properly edge-colored subgraphs, such as Hamiltonian or Eulerian configurations, colored in a specified pattern [1,2,[4][5][6]10,21,22,25,27], that is, subgraphs such that adjacent edges have different colors.…”