Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing one or more sequences of one or more instructions for execution by one or more processors in a processing system to perform a method for determining a dichotomy for a parametric decision process, the instructions when executed by the one or more processors are presented. Embodiments can be configured to define a network having a plurality of members as inter-member coherency coupling represented by elements of a coherency matrix, wherein for each ith member the network includes an intensity value, Ii. Further embodiments may include determining non-diagonal elements Tij of the coherency matrix in which i?j and in which i and j represent ith and jth members of the network, and constructing diagonal kernels Ki or non-diagonal kernels Hi based on the non-diagonal elements Tij of the coherency matrix and intensity values (Ii) of the members.