elim_order <- function(G, node_sizes) {
  stop("needs translation")
  #   function order = elim_order(G, node_sizes)
  # % BEST_FIRST_ELIM_ORDER Greedily search for an optimal elimination order.
  # % order = best_first_elim_order(moral_graph, node_sizes)
  # %
  # % Find an order in which to eliminate nodes from the graph in such a way as to try and minimize the
  # % weight of the resulting triangulated graph.  The weight of a graph is the sum of the weights of each
  # % of its cliques; the weight of a clique is the product of the weights of each of its members; the
  # % weight of a node is the number of values it can take on.
  # %
  # % Since this is an NP-hard problem, we use the following greedy heuristic:
  # % at each step, eliminate that node which will result in the addition of the least
  # % number of fill-in edges, breaking ties by choosing the node that induces the lighest clique.
  # % For details, see
  # % - Kjaerulff, "Triangulation of graphs -- algorithms giving small total state space",
  # %      Univ. Aalborg tech report, 1990 (www.cs.auc.dk/~uk)
  # % - C. Huang and A. Darwiche, "Inference in Belief Networks: A procedural guide",
  # %      Intl. J. Approx. Reasoning, 11, 1994
  # %

  # % Warning: This code is pretty old and could probably be made faster.

  # n = length(G);
  # %if nargin < 3, stage = { 1:n }; end % no constraints

  # % For long DBNs, it may be useful to eliminate all the nodes in slice t before slice t+1.
  # % This will ensure that the jtree has a repeating structure (at least away from both edges).
  # % This is why we have stages.
  # % See the discussion of splicing jtrees on p68 of
  # % Geoff Zweig's PhD thesis, Dept. Comp. Sci., UC Berkeley, 1998.
  # % This constraint can increase the clique size significantly.

  # MG = G; % copy the original graph
  # uneliminated = ones(1,n);
  # order = zeros(1,n);
  # %t = 1;  % Counts which time slice we are on
  # for i=1:n
  #   U = find(uneliminated);
  #   %valid = myintersect(U, stage{t});
  #   valid = U;
  #   % Choose the best node from the set of valid candidates
  #   min_fill = zeros(1,length(valid));
  #   min_weight = zeros(1,length(valid));
  #   for j=1:length(valid)
  #     k = valid(j);
  #     nbrs = myintersect(neighbors(G, k), U);
  #     l = length(nbrs);
  #     M = MG(nbrs,nbrs);
  #     min_fill(j) = l^2 - sum(M(:)); % num. added edges
  #     min_weight(j) = prod(node_sizes([k nbrs])); % weight of clique
  #   end
  #   lightest_nbrs = find(min_weight==min(min_weight));
  #   % break ties using min-fill heuristic
  #   best_nbr_ndx = argmin(min_fill(lightest_nbrs));
  #   j = lightest_nbrs(best_nbr_ndx); % we will eliminate the j'th element of valid
  #   %j1s = find(score1==min(score1));
  #   %j = j1s(argmin(score2(j1s)));
  #   k = valid(j);
  #   uneliminated(k) = 0;
  #   order(i) = k;
  #   ns = myintersect(neighbors(G, k), U);
  #   if ~isempty(ns)
  #     G(ns,ns) = 1;
  #     G = setdiag(G,0);
  #   end
  #   %if ~any(logical(uneliminated(stage{t}))) % are we allowed to the next slice?
  #   %  t = t + 1;
  #   %end
  # end
}