Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science is a highly selective standard peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to the rapid publication of innovative research which covers the fields of Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, with an emphasis on the intersection of these two fields.
DMTCS is open access peer-reviewed journal that has been online since 1998. It is a member of the Free Journal Network.
DMTCS is organized as an overlay journal. All DMTCS articles are deposited in an open-access repository such as HAL or ArXiv. Please see https://www.episciences.org/ for a description.
DMTCS is an diamond journal. There is no charge for publication and access to DMTCS.
Automata, logics and semantics: this section of DMTCS is devoted to publishing original research from several domains covered by Volume B of the Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier Publisher). Our scope is suggested by the following list of keywords: automata theory, automata-theoretic complexity, automatic program verification, combinatorics of words, coding theory, concurrency, data bases, formal languages, functional programming, logic in computer science, logic programming, program specification, rewriting, semantics of programming languages, theorem proving.
Combinatorics: this section seeks high quality research articles in all aspects of combinatorics, including enumerative combinatorics, probabilistic combinatorics, extremal combinatorics, algebraic combinatorics, additive combinatorics, bijections and mappings to enumeration, structural and enumerative properties of combinatorial objects, ordered sets, posets, quasi-orderings, combinatorial structures with geometric properties, combinatorial geometry, combinatorial objects in statistical physics, positional games, power series and generating functions.
Discrete algorithms: the section covers research in all aspects of the design and analysis of discrete algorithms. This extends also to data structures, combinatorial structures, and lower bounds. Topics includes: Algorithmic aspects of networks - Algorithmic game theory - Approximation algorithms - Combinatorial optimization - Computational biology - Distributed algorithms - Computational geometry - Data compression - Data structures - Databases and information retrieval - Graph algorithms - Hierarchical memories - Mobile computing - On-line algorithms - Parallel algorithms - Parametrized complexity - Pattern matching - Randomized algorithms - Scheduling - Streaming algorithms.
Graph Theory: this section seeks high quality articles on structural and algorithmic aspects of graphs and related discrete mathematical models. We particularly seek topics with an intersection between discrete mathematics and computer science. We handle submissions in all areas of finite graph theory.
Special issues: Chose this section if you are submitting to a special issue of DMTCS. Please don't forget to chose also the issue itself to which you are submitting.
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Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DMTCS) is a non-profit organization governed by the French law of 1901.
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The journal itself receives no direct funding, either internally or externally, relying instead on volunteer labor for editorial and production management.
Last updated: September 22, 2026