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SIAM Journal on Computing (siam-journal-on-computing)
Journal positioning
SIAM Journal on Computing (SICOMP), published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, is a foundational venue for theoretical computer science. Its defining character is rigorous theory of computation: the design and analysis of algorithms, computational complexity, data structures, cryptography, randomness, distributed and parallel computation, and the mathematical foundations of computing — with theorems and proofs at the core. SICOMP is where many landmark TCS results appear in their full, refereed journal form, often as the archival version of work first presented at conferences such as STOC and FOCS. A paper is judged on the importance of its theoretical contribution and the full correctness of its proofs, addressed to the theory-of-computing research community. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines or the editorial board's judgment. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the SICOMP / SIAM site.
When to trigger
- The author names SICOMP as the target for a rigorous theoretical-computer-science result in algorithms or complexity.
- An author is preparing the full journal version of a STOC/FOCS-type result and is choosing between SICOMP and Journal of the ACM.
- A manuscript proves new algorithmic guarantees, complexity bounds, or hardness results and needs an archival, fully refereed home.
- The author needs SICOMP's expectations on full rigor, exposition, and submission norms before committing.