''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. It 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

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(ACM). The journal is described as follows on th
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

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, also organized by Rice, who then negotiated with both

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and the ACM regarding its publication. 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.

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Journal home pageACM Collected Algorithms
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Transactions on Mathematical Software ''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. It is one of the old ...

Publications established in 1975