Pure Mathematics and Applications - section Algebra and Theoretical Computer Science - publishes original high quality articles of international relevance in the two disciplines of algebra and theoretical computer science. Specific topics include (but are not limited to) group and semigroup theory, commutative algebra, computational algebra, poset and lattice theory, linear algebra, theory of automata and formal languages, computational complexity, analysis of algorithms, game theory. In particular, articles in which interactions between algebra and theoretical computer science play a relevant role (i.e. techniques of either discipline are fundamental in obtaining results of the other) will be privileged. As a natural consequence of this fact, one of the disciplines which are more relevant to the journal is discrete mathematics, and more specifically enumerative and algebraic combinatorics, graph theory, discrete tomography, random and exhaustive generation, combinatorial order theory, bioinformatics, matroid theory, combinatorics on words.
Papers about high quality applications of combinatorial methods to computer science (especially algorithms, data structures, and criptography), or special issues, completely devoted to a certain contemporary topic of high interest, are also published.

Pure Mathematics and Applications - section Mathematics of Optimization - publishes original research works, surveys, historical and biographical articles primarily on mathematics of optimization. Papers about high quality applications of mathematical methods to decision sciences (especially operations research, economics, games and control theory, actuarial and financial mathematics), or special issues, completely devoted to a certain contemporary topic of high interest are also published.

The journal contains two sections - one devoted to Algebra and Theoretical Computer Science, and second to Mathematics of Optimization. The published articles of the first section focus on algebra and theoretical computer science, with interactions between algebra and theoretical computer science in particular. The second section publishes research works, surveys, historical and biographical articles primarily on mathematics of optimization.

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