Min Yong SHI
Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. 1999, 12(3): 231-237.
For a graph G, if E(G) can be partitioned into several pairwise disjoint sets as{E1 , E2,...,El } such that the subgraph induced by Ei is a tree of order ki ) (i = 1, 2,... , l),then G is said to have a {k1, k2, ..., kl }-tree-decomposition.