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\cgal\ is a {\em Computational Geometry Algorithms Library} written in \CC, 
developed by a consortium consisting of
\ccAnchor{http://www.inf.ethz.ch/}{ETH Z\"urich} (Switzerland), 
\ccAnchor{http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/}{Freie Universit{\"a}t Berlin} (Germany), 
\ccAnchor{http://www.inria.fr/Equipes/PRISME-eng.html}{{\sc Inria} 
Sophia-Antipolis} (France),
\ccAnchor{http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/}{Martin-Luther-Universit{\"a}t 
Halle-Wittenberg} (Germany),
\ccAnchor{http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/}{Max-Planck Institut f{\"u}r Informatik},
Saarbr\"ucken (Germany),
\ccAnchor{http://info.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/}{{\sc Risc}} Linz (Austria)
\ccAnchor{http://www.math.tau.ac.il/}{Tel-Aviv University} (Israel), and
\ccAnchor{http://www.cs.uu.nl/}{Utrecht University} (The Netherlands). 
You can find more information about the project on the 
\ccAnchor{http://www.cgal.org}{\cgal\ home page}
\ccTexHtml{at URL {\tt http://www.cgal.org}}{}.

Should you have any questions, comments, remarks or criticism concerning 
\cgal, please send a message to 
\ccTexHtml{{\tt contact@cgal.org}}{<A HREF="mailto:contact@cgal.org">&#60;contact@cgal.org&#62;</A>}.

\section*{Editorial Committee}

Andreas Fabri ({\sc Inria} Sophia-Antipolis) \\
%Bernd G\"artner (ETH Z\"urich) \\
Susan Hert (Max-Planck Institut f\"ur Informatik)\\
Shai Hirsch (Tel-Aviv University) \\
Michael Hoffmann (ETH Z\"urich) \\
Lutz Kettner (Max-Planck Institut f\"ur Informatik)\\ 
Sylvain Pion ({\sc Inria} Sophia-Antipolis)\\
Remco Veltkamp (Utrecht University)\\
Mariette Yvinec ({\sc Inria} Sophia-Antipolis)\\


\section*{Acknowledgement}

This work was supported
by the ESPRIT IV Long Term Research Projects No.~21957 (CGAL) 
and No.~28155 (GALIA).


