''ACM Transactions on Algorithms'' (''TALG'') is a quarterly

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covering the field of

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. It was established in 2005 and is published by the

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. The

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is Edith Cohen. The journal was created when the

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of the ''Journal of Algorithms'' resigned out of protest to the pricing policies of the publisher,

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. Apart from regular submissions, the journal also invites selected papers from the ''ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)''.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the

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/Engineering, Computing & Technology, and

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 1.104.

Past editors

The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal: * Harold N. Gabow (2005-2008) *

Susanne Albers Susanne Albers is a German theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science at the TUM Department of Informatics, Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich. She is a recipient of the Otto Hahn Medal and the L ...

(2008-2014) * Aravind Srinivasan (2014-2021)

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Abstracting and indexing

Past editors

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