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@inproceedings{LABEL ,author= "Akkiraju, N. and Edelsbrunner H. and Facello M. and Fu, P. and M{\"u}cke, E. P. and Varela, C." ,title= "Alpha Shapes: Definition and Software. Extended Abstract" ,booktitle= "Proceedings of the 1st International Computational Geometry Software Workshop" ,year= 1995 ,pages= "63--66" ,url= "http://www.geom.umn.edu/locate/cglist/GeomDir/shapes95" }