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DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND APPLICATIONS provides the latest information on the development of discrete mathematics in Russia to a worldwide readership.The journal contains papers from the Russian-language journal Diskretnaya Matematika, the only journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences devoted to this field of mathematics.Discrete Mathematics and Applications covers various subjects in the fields such as combinatorial analysis, graph theory, functional systems theory, cryptology, coding, probabilistic problems of discrete mathematics, algorithms and their complexity, combinatorial and computational problems of number theory and of algebra.