I said one or more nodes because I assume it doesn't make sense for a group to have zero nodes - is that true? Maybe there is a case for a group to have zero nodes.

This is different than the hyperedge, which is a set of two or more nodes. The hyperedge cannot contain other edges and cannot be treated as a node itself. (I'm assuming that it doesn't make sense to create a hyperedge with 0 or 1 nodes).

The reason why I don't simply call a group a subnetwork or a network is because the word group suggests that the nodes and edges contained in it are held together by a special relationship that other subnetworks in the containing network don't have. So, the word group could also be seen as an adjective for subnetwork: a grouped subnetwork is a subnetwork that has been deemed to be a special subnetwork (because its nodes and/or edges are related to each other in some special way) in the containing network. Does that make sense? I hope so...


would the interface make more sense if the methods looked like this?:


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