It was founded in 1960 by Richard Bellman,[1] as part of a series of new journals on areas of mathematics published by Academic Press,[2] and is now published by Elsevier.

For most years since 2003 it has been ranked by SCImago Journal Rank as among the top 25% of journals in its topic areas.

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