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科學與工程技術期刊 第二卷 第二期 民國九十五年 11 Journal of Science and Engineering Technology, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 11-17 (2006) Circular and Circle Trapezoid Graphs YAW-LING LIN Department Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University 200 Chung-Chi Rd., Taichung, Taiwan ABSTRACT Along with the direction that generalizes interval graphs and permutation graphs to trapezoid graphs, researchers are now trying to generalize the class known as trapezoid graphs. A circle trapezoid is the region in a circle that lies between two non-crossing chords; thus, circle trapezoid graphs are the intersecting graphs of circle trapezoids within a circle. It should be noted that circle trapezoid graphs properly contain trapezoid graphs, circle graphs and circular-arc graphs as subclasses. Circle trapezoid graphs should not be confused with circular trapezoid graphs. A circular trapezoid is the region within two parallel circles that lies between two non-crossing segments; circular trapezoid graphs are the intersecting graphs of circular trapezoids between two parallel circles. In this paper, the author presents results on two proper super classes of trapezoid graphs, including circle trapezoid graphs and circular trapezoid graphs. It is shown that circle trapezoid graphs and circular trapezoid graphs are two distinct classes of graphs. Furthermore, it is shown that