本雜志提出并促進(jìn)了組合優(yōu)化的理論和應(yīng)用。組合優(yōu)化是應(yīng)用數(shù)學(xué)、計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)和運(yùn)籌學(xué)交叉的研究領(lǐng)域，與計(jì)算復(fù)雜性、計(jì)算生物學(xué)、超大規(guī)模集成電路設(shè)計(jì)、通信網(wǎng)絡(luò)和管理科學(xué)等許多其他領(lǐng)域重疊。它包括組合優(yōu)化問題的復(fù)雜性分析和算法設(shè)計(jì)、數(shù)值實(shí)驗(yàn)和具有科學(xué)和工程應(yīng)用價(jià)值的問題發(fā)現(xiàn)?！督M合優(yōu)化》雜志發(fā)表了涉及組合優(yōu)化的所有理論、計(jì)算和應(yīng)用方面的參考論文。它還出版有關(guān)書籍和期刊的評(píng)論。

This journal advances and promotes the theory and applications of combinatorial optimization, which is an area of research at the intersection of applied mathematics, computer science, and operations research and which overlaps with many other areas such as computation complexity, computational biology, VLSI design, communication networks, and management science. It includes complexity analysis and algorithm design for combinatorial optimization problems, numerical experiments and problem discovery with applications in science and engineering.The Journal of Combinatorial Optimization publishes refereed papers dealing with all theoretical, computational and applied aspects of combinatorial optimization. It also publishes reviews of appropriate books and special issues of journals.