In the paper [9] we introduced the class of generalized metric spaces. These spaces simultaneously generalize ‘standard’ metric spaces, probabilistic metric spaces and fuzzy metric spaces. We show that every generalized metric space is, naturally, a uniform space. Thus we can use standard topological techniques to study, for example, probabilistic metric spaces. We illustrate this by proving a ...

The Robinson-Foulds (RF) metric is arguably the most widely used measure of phylogenetic tree similarity, despite its well-known shortcomings: For example, moving a single taxon in a tree can result in a tree that has maximum distance to the original one; but the two trees are identical if we remove the single taxon. To this end, we propose a natural extension of the RF metric that does not sim...