TITLE:    The Computer Algebra System CoCoA

ABSTRACT: CoCoA is a special-purpose system for doing Computations in
Commutative Algebra.  It is one of the products of a research team in Computer
Algebra whose members are: Lorenzo Robbiano, John Abbott, Anna Bigatti, Massimo
Caboara, Antonio Capani, Martin Kreuzer, Gianfranco Niesi, David Perkinson and
occasionally other researchers and students.  It is public domain software, and
can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
   http://cocoa.dima.unige.it

The architecture of CoCoA is designed to offer flexibility through efficiency,
portability and programmability.  It runs on most platforms.  With CoCoA one
can basically do operations over commutative rings of polynomials.

Currently CoCoA is used by researchers in several countries. Most of them are
Commutative Algebraists and Algebraic Geometers, but also people working in
different areas like Analysis and Statistics have already benefitted from our
system.

CoCoA is also used as the main system for teaching courses in several
Universities.