Algorithmics is the part of computer science that deals with the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures and constitutes the scientific foundation for reasoning about resources used in computing such as time and space. This covers both the design and analysis of efficient algorithms solving concrete problems, and also with identifying common patterns of problems and associated algorithmic paradigms that can lead to efficient solutions for classes of problems.
The section’s research in this area includes: Approximation algorithms, stochastic search algorithms/heuristics, algorithms for statistics, data structures, and pattern matching.