diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 8b23445..0c3c5fc 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2019 
+Copyright (c) 2019 - present, iVis@Bilkent.
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/cose-base.js b/cose-base.js
index 43051c2..29986d7 100644
--- a/cose-base.js
+++ b/cose-base.js
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ CoSEConstants.DEFAULT_COMPONENT_SEPERATION = 60;
 CoSEConstants.TILE = true;
 CoSEConstants.TILING_PADDING_VERTICAL = 10;
 CoSEConstants.TILING_PADDING_HORIZONTAL = 10;
+CoSEConstants.TREE_REDUCTION_ON_INCREMENTAL = false; // make this true when cose is used incrementally as a part of other non-incremental layout
 
 module.exports = CoSEConstants;
 
@@ -395,6 +396,18 @@ CoSELayout.prototype.classicLayout = function () {
 
         this.positionNodesRandomly();
       }
+  } else {
+    if (CoSEConstants.TREE_REDUCTION_ON_INCREMENTAL) {
+      // Reduce the trees in incremental mode if only this constant is set to true 
+      this.reduceTrees();
+      // Update nodes that gravity will be applied
+      this.graphManager.resetAllNodesToApplyGravitation();
+      var allNodes = new Set(this.getAllNodes());
+      var intersection = this.nodesWithGravity.filter(function (x) {
+        return allNodes.has(x);
+      });
+      this.graphManager.setAllNodesToApplyGravitation(intersection);
+    }
   }
 
   this.initSpringEmbedder();
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 2755ebe..f05af6e 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -5630,7 +5630,8 @@
         "ansi-regex": {
           "version": "2.1.1",
           "bundled": true,
-          "dev": true
+          "dev": true,
+          "optional": true
         },
         "aproba": {
           "version": "1.2.0",
@@ -5651,12 +5652,14 @@
         "balanced-match": {
           "version": "1.0.0",
           "bundled": true,
-          "dev": true
+          "dev": true,
+          "optional": true
         },
         "brace-expansion": {
           "version": "1.1.11",
           "bundled": true,
           "dev": true,
+          "optional": true,
           "requires": {
             "balanced-match": "^1.0.0",
             "concat-map": "0.0.1"
@@ -5671,17 +5674,20 @@
         "code-point-at": {
           "version": "1.1.0",
           "bundled": true,
-          "dev": true
+          "dev": true,
+          "optional": true
         },
         "concat-map": {
           "version": "0.0.1",
           "bundled": true,
-          "dev": true
+          "dev": true,
+          "optional": true
         },
         "console-control-strings": {
           "version": "1.1.0",
           "bundled": true,
-          "dev": true
+          "dev": true,
+          "optional": true
         },
         "core-util-is": {
           "version": "1.0.2",
@@ -5798,7 +5804,8 @@
         "inherits": {
           "version": "2.0.3",
           "bundled": true,
-          "dev": true
+          "dev": true,
+          "optional": true
         },
         "ini": {
           "version": "1.3.5",
@@ -5810,6 +5817,7 @@
           "version": "1.0.0",
           "bundled": true,
           "dev": true,
+          "optional": true,
           "requires": {
             "number-is-nan": "^1.0.0"
           }
@@ -5824,6 +5832,7 @@
           "version": "3.0.4",
           "bundled": true,
           "dev": true,
+          "optional": true,
           "requires": {
             "brace-expansion": "^1.1.7"
           }
@@ -5831,12 +5840,14 @@
         "minimist": {
           "version": "0.0.8",
           "bundled": true,
-          "dev": true
+          "dev": true,
+          "optional": true
         },
         "minipass": {
           "version": "2.3.5",
           "bundled": true,
           "dev": true,
+          "optional": true,
           "requires": {
             "safe-buffer": "^5.1.2",
             "yallist": "^3.0.0"
@@ -5855,6 +5866,7 @@
           "version": "0.5.1",
           "bundled": true,
           "dev": true,
+          "optional": true,
           "requires": {
             "minimist": "0.0.8"
           }
@@ -5935,7 +5947,8 @@
         "number-is-nan": {
           "version": "1.0.1",
           "bundled": true,
-          "dev": true
+          "dev": true,
+          "optional": true
         },
         "object-assign": {
           "version": "4.1.1",
@@ -5947,6 +5960,7 @@
           "version": "1.4.0",
           "bundled": true,
           "dev": true,
+          "optional": true,
           "requires": {
             "wrappy": "1"
           }
@@ -6032,7 +6046,8 @@
         "safe-buffer": {
           "version": "5.1.2",
           "bundled": true,
-          "dev": true
+          "dev": true,
+          "optional": true
         },
         "safer-buffer": {
           "version": "2.1.2",
@@ -6068,6 +6083,7 @@
           "version": "1.0.2",
           "bundled": true,
           "dev": true,
+          "optional": true,
           "requires": {
             "code-point-at": "^1.0.0",
             "is-fullwidth-code-point": "^1.0.0",
@@ -6087,6 +6103,7 @@
           "version": "3.0.1",
           "bundled": true,
           "dev": true,
+          "optional": true,
           "requires": {
             "ansi-regex": "^2.0.0"
           }
@@ -6130,12 +6147,14 @@
         "wrappy": {
           "version": "1.0.2",
           "bundled": true,
-          "dev": true
+          "dev": true,
+          "optional": true
         },
         "yallist": {
           "version": "3.0.3",
           "bundled": true,
-          "dev": true
+          "dev": true,
+          "optional": true
         }
       }
     },
diff --git a/src/CoSEConstants.js b/src/CoSEConstants.js
index 45bb2c2..639e59c 100644
--- a/src/CoSEConstants.js
+++ b/src/CoSEConstants.js
@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ CoSEConstants.DEFAULT_COMPONENT_SEPERATION = 60;
 CoSEConstants.TILE = true;
 CoSEConstants.TILING_PADDING_VERTICAL = 10;
 CoSEConstants.TILING_PADDING_HORIZONTAL = 10;
+CoSEConstants.TREE_REDUCTION_ON_INCREMENTAL = false;  // make this true when cose is used incrementally as a part of other non-incremental layout
 
 module.exports = CoSEConstants;
diff --git a/src/CoSELayout.js b/src/CoSELayout.js
index f146cae..3882781 100644
--- a/src/CoSELayout.js
+++ b/src/CoSELayout.js
@@ -130,6 +130,17 @@ CoSELayout.prototype.classicLayout = function () {
       this.positionNodesRandomly();
     }
   }
+  else {
+    if(CoSEConstants.TREE_REDUCTION_ON_INCREMENTAL){
+      // Reduce the trees in incremental mode if only this constant is set to true 
+      this.reduceTrees();
+      // Update nodes that gravity will be applied
+      this.graphManager.resetAllNodesToApplyGravitation();
+      var allNodes = new Set(this.getAllNodes());
+      var intersection = this.nodesWithGravity.filter(x => allNodes.has(x));
+      this.graphManager.setAllNodesToApplyGravitation(intersection);        
+    }
+  }
 
   this.initSpringEmbedder();
   this.runSpringEmbedder();