Editorial Aims and Scope

Editorial Aims

The growth in all aspects of research in the last decade has led to a multitude of new publications and an exponential increase in published research. Finding a way through the excellent existing literature and keeping up to date has become a major time-consuming problem. Electronic publishing has given researchers instant access to more articles than ever before. But which articles are the essential ones that should be read to understand and keep abreast with developments of any topic? To address this problem Foundations and Trends® in Stochastic Systems published high-quality survey and tutorial monographs of the field using modern techniques to enable both instant linking to the primary research in its electronic form and affordable paper copies, finally delivering on the promise to authors of multiple channel publishing from a single source.

Each issue of Foundations and Trends® in Stochastic Systems comprises a 50-100 page monograph written by research leaders in the field. Monographs that give tutorial coverage of subjects, research retrospectives as well as survey papers that offer state-of-the-art reviews fall within the scope of the journal.

Foundations and Trends® in Stochastic Systems published survey and tutorial articles on the following topics:

  • Brownian Models
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Applications
  • Markov Decision Processes
  • Mathematical Finance and Insurance
  • Point Processes
  • Queuing Theory
  • Reliability Theory
  • Risk Analysis
  • Simulation
  • Stochastic Control
  • Stochastic Networks
  • Stochastic Optimization
  • Stochastic Programming
  • Telecom and Internet Applications