''ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software'' (''TOMS'') is a quarterly scientific journal that aims to disseminate the latest findings of note in the field of numeric, symbolic, algebraic, and geometric computing applications.
The journal publishes two kinds of articles: Regular research papers that advance the development of algorithms and software for mathematical computing, and "algorithms papers" that describe a specific implementation of an algorithm and that are accompanied by the source code for this algorithm.
Algorithms described in the transactions are generally published in the ''Collected Algorithms of the ACM (CALGO)''. Algorithms published since 1975 (and some earlier ones) are all still available.
Software that accompanies algorithm papers is accessible by anyone via the CALGO website.
History
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software is one of the oldest scientific journals specifically dedicated to mathematical algorithms and their implementation in software, and has been published since March 1975 by the
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...
(ACM).
The journal is described as follows on the TOMS Homepage of the ACM Digital Library page:
The purpose of the journal was laid out by its founding editor,
John Rice, in the inaugural issue. The decision to found the journal came out of the 1970 Mathematical Software Symposium at
Purdue University
Purdue University is a Public university#United States, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded ...
, also organized by Rice, who then negotiated with both
SIAM and the ACM regarding its publication.
References
External links
Journal home pageACM Collected Algorithms
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Transactions on Mathematical Software
Academic journals established in 1975