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International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ6051350 ↗
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The International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA) is a bimonthly journal published since 1991, by World Scientific. It covers the application of computational geometry in design and analysis of algorithms, focusing on problems arising in various fields of science and engineering such as computer-aided geometry design (CAGD), operations research, and others.

The current editors-in-chief are D.-T. Lee of the Institute of Information Science in Taiwan, and Joseph S. B. Mitchell from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics

in the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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This entry incorporates text from “International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.