Haiming Chen

Computer Science Conference Rankings

The ranking of the conference is taken from an informal external source. It is only for reference.

AREA: Hardware and Architecture

Rank 1:
        ASPLOS: Architectural Support for Prog Lang and OS
        ISCA: ACM/IEEE Symp on Computer Architecture
        ICCAD: Intl Conf on Computer-Aided Design
        DAC: Design Automation Conf
        MICRO: Intl Symp on Microarchitecture
        HPCA: IEEE Symp on High-Perf Comp Architecture

Rank 2:
        FCCM: IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines
        SUPER: ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference
        ICS: Intl Conf on Supercomputing
        ISSCC: IEEE Intl Solid-State Circuits Conf
        HCS: Hot Chips Symp
        VLSI: IEEE Symp VLSI Circuits
        CODES+ISSS: Intl Conf on Hardware/Software Codesign & System Synthesis
        DATE: IEEE/ACM Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference
        FPL: Field-Programmable Logic and Applications
        CASES: International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems

Rank 3:
        ICA3PP: Algs and Archs for Parall Proc
        EuroMICRO: New Frontiers of Information Technology
        ACS: Australian Supercomputing Conf
        ISC: Information Security Conference

Un-ranked:
        Advanced Research in VLSI
        International Symposium on System Synthesis
        International Symposium on Computer Design
        International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
        Asia Pacific Design Automation Conference
        International Symposium on Physical Design
        International Conference on VLSI Design
        CANPC: Communication, Architecture, and Applications for Network-Based Parallel Computing
        CHARME: Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods
        CHES: Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
        NDSS: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
        NOSA: Nordic Symposium on Software Architecture
        ACAC: Australasian Computer Architecture Conference
        CSCC: WSES/IEEE world multiconference on Circuits, Systems, Communications & Computers
        ICN: IEEE International Conference on Networking Topology in Computer Science Conference

AREA: System Technology

Rank 1:
        SIGCOMM: ACM Conf on Comm Architectures, Protocols & Apps
        INFOCOM: Annual Joint Conf IEEE Comp & Comm Soc
        SPAA: Symp on Parallel Algms and Architecture
        PODC: ACM Symp on Principles of Distributed Computing
        PPoPP: Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
        PACT: Intl Conf on Parallel Arch and Compil Tech
        USENIX Conf on Internet Tech and Sys
        RTSS: Real Time Systems Symp
        SOSP: ACM SIGOPS Symp on OS Principles
        OSDI: Usenix Symp on OS Design and Implementation
        CCS: ACM Conf on Comp and Communications Security
        S&P: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
        MOBICOM: ACM Intl Conf on Mobile Computing and Networking
        ICNP: Intl Conf on Network Protocols
        RTAS: IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium
        ICDCS: IEEE Intl Conf on Distributed Comp Systems
        DSN: The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Rank 2:
        CC: Compiler Construction
        IPDPS: Intl Parallel and Dist Processing Symp
        IC3N: Intl Conf on Comp Comm and Networks
        ICPP: Intl Conf on Parallel Processing
        SRDS: Symp on Reliable Distributed Systems
        MPPOI: Massively Par Proc Using Opt Interconns
        ASAP: Intl Conf on Apps for Specific Array Processors
        Euro-Par: European Conf. on Parallel Computing
        Fast Software Encryption
        Usenix Security Symposium
        European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
        WCW: Web Caching Workshop
        LCN: IEEE Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks
        IPCCC: IEEE Intl Phoenix Conf on Comp & Communications
        CCC: Cluster Computing Conference
        ICC: Intl Conf on Comm
        WCNC: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
        CSFW: IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop

Rank 3:
        MPCS: Intl. Conf. on Massively Parallel Computing Systems
        GLOBECOM: Global Comm
        ICCC: Intl Conf on Comp Communication
        NOMS: IEEE Network Operations and Management Symp
        CONPAR: Intl Conf on Vector and Parallel Processing
        VAPP: Vector and Parallel Processing
        ICPADS: Intl Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Systems
        Public Key Cryptosystems
        Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography
        Australasia Conference on Information Security and Privacy
        Int. Conf on Inofrm and Comm. Security
        Financial Cryptography
        Workshop on Information Hiding
        Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference
        ICON: Intl Conf on Networks
        NCC: Nat Conf Comm
        IN: IEEE Intell Network Workshop
        Softcomm: Conf on Software in Tcomms and Comp Networks
        INET: Internet Society Conf
        Workshop on Security and Privacy in E-commerce

Un-ranked:
        PARCO: Parallel Computing
        SE: Intl Conf on Systems Engineering (**)
        PDSECA: workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications
        CACS: Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference
        SREIS: Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security
        SAFECOMP: International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security
        IREJVM: Workshop on Intermediate Representation Engineering for the Java Virtual Machine
        EC: ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
        EWSPT: European Workshop on Software Process Technology
        HotOS: Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
        HPTS: High Performance Transaction Systems
        Hybrid Systems
        ICEIS: International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
        IOPADS: I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems
        IRREGULAR: Workshop on Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems
        KiVS: Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen
        LCR: Languages, Compilers, and Run-Time Systems for Scalable Computers
        MCS: Multiple Classifier Systems
        MSS: Symposium on Mass Storage Systems
        NGITS: Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems
        OOIS: Object Oriented Information Systems
        SCM: System Configuration Management
        Security Protocols Workshop
        SIGOPS European Workshop
        SPDP: Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
        TreDS: Trends in Distributed Systems
        USENIX Technical Conference
        VISUAL: Visual Information and Information Systems
        FoDS: Foundations of Distributed Systems: Design and Verification of Protocols conference
        RV: Post-CAV Workshop on Runtime Verification
        ICAIS: International ICSC-NAISO Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems
        ITiCSE: Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education
        CSCS: CyberSystems and Computer Science Conference
        AUIC: Australasian User Interface Conference
        ITI: Meeting of Researchers in Computer Science, Information Systems Research & Statistics
        European Conference on Parallel Processing
        RODLICS: Wses International Conference on Robotics, Distance Learning & Intelligent Communication Systems
        International Conference On Multimedia, Internet & Video Technologies
        PaCT: Parallel Computing Technologies workshop
        PPAM: International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics
        International Conference On Information Networks, Systems And Technologies
        AmiRE: Conference on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment
        IHW: Information Hiding Workshop
        GTVMT: International Workshop on Graph Transformation and Visual Modeling Techniques

AREA: Software Technology / Graphics and Multimedia

Rank 1:
        SIGGRAPH: ACM SIGGRAPH Conference
        I3DG: ACM-SIGRAPH Interactive 3D Graphics
        ACM-MM: ACM Multimedia Conference
        DCC: Data Compression Conf
        SIGMETRICS: ACM Conf on Meas. & Modelling of Comp Sys
        PECCS: IFIP Intl Conf on Perf Eval of Comp & Comm Sys
        SIGIR: ACM SIGIR Conf on Information Retrieval
        WWW: World-Wide Web Conference

Rank 2:
        IEEE Visualization
        EUROGRAPH: European Graphics Conference
        CGI: Computer Graphics International
        CANIM: Computer Animation
        PG: Pacific Graphics
        ICME: Intl Conf on MMedia & Expo
        NOSSDAV: Network and OS Support for Digital A/V
        PADS: ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Parallel & Dist Simulation
        WSC: Winter Simulation Conference
        ANSS: IEEE Annual Simulation Symposium
        MASCOTS: Symp Model Analysis & Sim of Comp & Telecom Sys
        PT: Perf Tools - Intl Conf on Model Tech & Tools for CPE
        NetStore: Network Storage Symposium
        MMCN: ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking
        JCDL: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Rank 3:
        ACM-HPC: ACM Hypertext Conf
        MMM: Multimedia Modelling
        DSS: Distributed Simulation Symposium
        SCSC: Summer Computer Simulation Conference
        WCSS: World Congress on Systems Simulation
        ESS: European Simulation Symposium
        ESM: European Simulation Multiconference
        HPCN: High-Performance Computing and Networking
        Geometry Modeling and Processing
        WISE
        DS-RT: Distributed Simulation and Real-time Applications
        IEEE Intl Wshop on Dist Int Simul and Real-Time Applications
        ECIR: European Colloquium on Information Retrieval
        Ed-Media
        IMSA: Intl Conf on Internet and MMedia Sys

Un-ranked:
        DVAT: IS&T/SPIE Conf on Dig Video Compression Alg & Tech
        ICMSO: Intl Conf on Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation
        ICMS: IASTED Intl Conf on Modelling and Simulation
        COTIM: Conference on Telecommunications and Information Markets
        DOA: International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications
        ECMAST: European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques
        GIS: Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
        IDA: Intelligent Data Analysis
        IDMS: Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services
        IUI: Intelligent User Interfaces
        MIS: Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems
        WECWIS: Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web/based Information Systems
        WIDM: Web Information and Data Management
        WOWMOM: Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia
        PDCAT: International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications, and Techniques
        WSCG: International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization
        LDTA: Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications
        IPDPSWPIM: International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Issues in Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
        IWST: International Workshop on Scheduling and Telecommunications
        APDCM: Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models
        CIMA: International ICSC Congress on Computational Intelligence: Methods and Applications
        FLA: Fuzzy Logic and Applications Meeting
        ICACSD: International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design
        ICATPN: International conference on application and theory of Petri nets
        AICCSA: ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
        CAGD: International Symposium of Computer Aided Geometric Design
        Spanish Symposium on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
        International Workshop on Cluster Infrastructure for Web Server and E-Commerce Applications
        WSES ISA: Information Science And Applications Conference
        CHT: International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer
        IMACS: International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra
        VIPromCom: International Symposium on Video Processing and Multimedia Communications
        PDMPR: International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Multimedia Processing & Retrieval
        International Symposium On Computational And Applied Pdes
        Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference
        Symposium on Advanced Computing in Financial Markets
        WCCE: World Conference on Computers in Education
        MME: IEEE Intl Conf. on Multimedia in Education
        ITCOM: SPIE's International Symposium on The Convergence of Information Technologies and Communications
        Conference on Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing
        MSA: Metacomputing Systems and Applications Workshop
        WPMC : International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications
        WSC: Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications
        HERCMA: Hellenic European Research on Computer Mathematics and its Applications
        PARA: Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing
        International Computer Science Conference: Active Media Technology
        IW-MMDBMS - Int. Workshop on Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems

AREA: Databases

Rank 1:
        SIGMOD: ACM SIGMOD Conf on Management of Data
        PODS: ACM SIGMOD Conf on Principles of DB Systems
        VLDB: Very Large Data Bases
        ICDE: Intl Conf on Data Engineering
        CIKM: Intl. Conf on Information and Knowledge Management
        ICDT: Intl Conf on Database Theory

Rank 2:
        SSD: Intl Symp on Large Spatial Databases
        DEXA: Database and Expert System Applications
        FODO: Intl Conf on Foundation on Data Organization
        EDBT: Extending DB Technology
        DOOD: Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases
        DASFAA: Database Systems for Advanced Applications
        SSDBM: Intl Conf on Scientific and Statistical DB Mgmt
        CoopIS - Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
        ER - Intl Conf on Conceptual Modeling (ER)

Rank 3:
        COMAD: Intl Conf on Management of Data
        BNCOD: British National Conference on Databases
        ADC: Australasian Database Conference
        ADBIS: Symposium on Advances in DB and Information Systems
        DaWaK - Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
        RIDE Workshop
        IFIP-DS: IFIP-DS Conference
        IFIP-DBSEC - IFIP Workshop on Database Security
        NGDB: Intl Symp on Next Generation DB Systems and Apps
        ADTI: Intl Symp on Advanced DB Technologies and Integration
        FEWFDB: Far East Workshop on Future DB Systems
        MDM - Int. Conf. on Mobile Data Access/Management (MDA/MDM)
        VDB - Visual Database Systems
        IDEAS - International Database Engineering and Application Symposium

Un-ranked
        ARTDB - Active and Real-Time Database Systems
        CODAS: Intl Symp on Cooperative DB Systems for Adv Apps
        DBPL - Workshop on Database Programming Languages
        EFIS/EFDBS - Engineering Federated Information (Database) Systems
        KRDB - Knowledge Representation Meets Databases
        NDB - National Database Conference (China)
        NLDB - Applications of Natural Language to Data Bases
        FQAS - Flexible Query-Answering Systems
        IDC(W) - International Database Conference (HK CS)
        RTDB - Workshop on Real-Time Databases
        SBBD: Brazilian Symposium on Databases
        WebDB - International Workshop on the Web and Databases
        WAIM: Interational Conference on Web Age Information Management
        DASWIS - Data Semantics in Web Information Systems
        DMDW - Design and Management of Data Warehouses
        DOLAP - International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP
        DMKD - Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
        KDEX - Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop
        NRDM - Workshop on Network-Related Data Management
        MobiDE - Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access
        MDDS - Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems
        MEWS - Mining for Enhanced Web Search
        TAKMA - Theory and Applications of Knowledge MAnagement
        WIDM: International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management
        W2GIS - International Workshop on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems
        CDB - Constraint Databases and Applications
        DTVE - Workshop on Database Technology for Virtual Enterprises
        IWDOM - International Workshop on Distributed Object Management
        OODBS - Workshop on Object-Oriented Database Systems
        PDIS: Parallel and Distributed Information Systems

AREA: Programming Languages and Software Engineering

Rank 1:
        POPL: ACM-SIGACT Symp on Principles of Prog Langs
        PLDI: ACM-SIGPLAN Symp on Prog Lang Design & Impl
        OOPSLA: OO Prog Systems, Langs and Applications
        ICFP: Intl Conf on Function Programming
        JICSLP/ICLP/ILPS: (Joint) Intl Conf/Symp on Logic Prog
        ICSE: Intl Conf on Software Engineering
        FSE: ACM Conf on the Foundations of Software Engineering (inc: ESEC-FSE)
        FM/FME: Formal Methods, World Congress/Europe
        CAV: Computer Aided Verification

Rank 2:
        CP: Intl Conf on Principles & Practice of Constraint Prog
        TACAS: Tools and Algos for the Const and An of Systems
        ESOP: European Conf on Programming
        ICCL: IEEE Intl Conf on Computer Languages
        PEPM: Symp on Partial Evalutation and Prog Manipulation
        SAS: Static Analysis Symposium
        RTA: Rewriting Techniques and Applications
        IWSSD: Intl Workshop on S/W Spec & Design
        CAiSE: Intl Conf on Advanced Info System Engineering
        SSR: ACM SIGSOFT Working Conf on Software Reusability
        SEKE: Intl Conf on S/E and Knowledge Engineering
        ICSR: IEEE Intl Conf on Software Reuse
        ASE: Automated Software Engineering Conference
        PADL: Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages
        ISRE: Requirements Engineering
        ICECCS: IEEE Intl Conf on Eng. of Complex Computer Systems
        IEEE Intl Conf on Formal Engineering Methods
        Intl Conf on Integrated Formal Methods
        FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Comp Struct
        APLAS: Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems
        MPC: Mathematics of Program Construction
        ECOOP: European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
        ICSM: Intl. Conf on Software Maintenance
        HASKELL - Haskell Workshop

Rank 3:
        FASE: Fund Appr to Soft Eng
        APSEC: Asia-Pacific S/E Conf
        PAP/PACT: Practical Aspects of PROLOG/Constraint Tech
        ALP: Intl Conf on Algebraic and Logic Programming
        PLILP: Prog, Lang Implentation & Logic Programming
        LOPSTR: Intl Workshop on Logic Prog Synthesis & Transf
        ICCC: Intl Conf on Compiler Construction
        COMPSAC: Intl. Computer S/W and Applications Conf
        TAPSOFT: Intl Joint Conf on Theory & Pract of S/W Dev
        WCRE: SIGSOFT Working Conf on Reverse Engineering
        AQSDT: Symp on Assessment of Quality S/W Dev Tools
        IFIP Intl Conf on Open Distributed Processing
        Intl Conf of Z Users
        IFIP Joint Int'l Conference on Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing, And Verification
        PSI (Ershov conference)
        UML: International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language

Un-ranked:
        Australian Software Engineering Conference
        IEEE Int. W'shop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Sys. (WORDS)
        IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering
        The Northern Formal Methods Workshops
        Formal Methods Pacific
        Int. Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems
        JFPLC - International French Speaking Conference on Logic and Constraint Programming
        L&L - Workshop on Logic and Learning
        SFP - Scottish Functional Programming Workshop
        LCCS - International Workshop on Logic and Complexity in Computer Science
        VLFM - Visual Languages and Formal Methods
        NASA LaRC Formal Methods Workshop
        PASTE: Workshop on Program Analysis For Software Tools and Engineering
        TLCA: Typed Lambda Calculus and Applications
        FATES - A Satellite workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software
        Workshop On Java For High-Performance Computing
        DSLSE - Domain-Specific Languages for Software Engineering
        FTJP - Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java Programs
        WFLP - International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming
        FOOL - International Workshop on Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages
        SREIS - Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security
        HLPP - International workshop on High-level parallel programming and applications
        INAP - International Conference on Applications of Prolog
        MPOOL - Workshop on Multiparadigm Programming with OO Languages
        PADO - Symposium on Programs as Data Objects
        TOOLS: Int'l Conf Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
        Australasian Conference on Parallel And Real-Time Systems
        PASTE: Workshop on Program Analysis For Software Tools and Engineering
        AvoCS: Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems
        SPIN: Workshop on Model Checking of Software
        FemSys: Workshop on Formal Design of Safety Critical Embedded Systems
        Ada-Europe
        PPDP: Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming
        APL Conference
        ASM: Workshops on Abstract State Machines
        COORDINATION: Coordination Models and Languages
        DocEng: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
        DSV-IS: Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems
        FMCAD: Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
        FMLDO: Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects
        IFL: Implementation of Functional Languages
        ILP: International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming
        ISSTA: International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
        ITC: International Test Conference
        IWFM: Irish Workshop in Formal Methods
        Java Grande
        LP: Logic Programming: Japanese Conference
        LPAR: Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning
        LPE: Workshop on Logic Programming Environments
        LPNMR: Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning
        PJW: Workshop on Persistence and Java
        RCLP: Russian Conference on Logic Programming
        STEP: Software Technology and Engineering Practice
        TestCom: IFIP International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems
        VL: Visual Languages
        FMPPTA: Workshop on Formal Methods for Parallel Programming Theory and Applications
        WRS: International Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming
        FATES: A Satellite workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software
        FORMALWARE: Meeting on Formalware Engineering: Formal Methods for Engineering Software
        DRE: conference Data Reverse Engineering
        STAREAST: Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference
        Conference on Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing
        International Testing Computer Software Conference
        Linux Showcase & Conference
        FLOPS: International Symposum on Functional and Logic Programming
        GCSE: International Conference on Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering
        JOSES: Java Optimization Strategies for Embedded Systems
        AADEBUG: Automated and Algorithmic Debugging
        AMAST: Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology

AREA: Algorithms and Theory

Rank 1:
        STOC: ACM Symp on Theory of Computing
        FOCS: IEEE Symp on Foundations of Computer Science
        COLT: Computational Learning Theory
        LICS: IEEE Symp on Logic in Computer Science
        SCG: ACM Symp on Computational Geometry
        SODA: ACM/SIAM Symp on Discrete Algorithms
        SPAA: ACM Symp on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
        ISSAC: Intl. Symp on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
        CRYPTO: Advances in Cryptology

Rank 2:
        EUROCRYPT: European Conf on Cryptography
        CONCUR: International Conference on Concurrency Theory
        ICALP: Intl Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Prog
        STACS: Symp on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
        CC: IEEE Symp on Computational Complexity
        WADS: Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures
        MFCS: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
        SWAT: Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory
        ESA: European Symp on Algorithms
        IPCO: MPS Conf on integer programming & comb optimization
        LFCS: Logical Foundations of Computer Science
        ALT: Algorithmic Learning Theory
        EUROCOLT: European Conf on Learning Theory
        DSIC: Int'l Symp om Distributed Computing (formally WDAG: Workshop on Distributed Algorithms)
        ISTCS: Israel Symp on Theory of Computing and Systems
        ISAAC: Intl Symp on Algorithms and Computation
        FST&TCS: Foundations of S/W Tech & Theoretical CS
        LATIN: Intl Symp on Latin American Theoretical Informatics
        CADE: Conf on Automated Deduction
        IEEEIT: IEEE Symposium on Information Theory
        Asiacrypt

Rank 3:
        MEGA: Methods Effectives en Geometrie Algebrique
        ASIAN: Asian Computing Science Conf
        CCCG: Canadian Conf on Computational Geometry
        FCT: Fundamentals of Computation Theory
        WG: Workshop on Graph Theory
        CIAC: Italian Conf on Algorithms and Complexity
        ICCI: Advances in Computing and Information
        AWTI: Argentine Workshop on Theoretical Informatics
        CATS: The Australian Theory Symp
        COCOON: Annual Intl Computing and Combinatorics Conf
        UMC: Unconventional Models of Computation
        MCU: Universal Machines and Computations
        GD: Graph Drawing
        SIROCCO: Structural Info & Communication Complexity
        ALEX: Algorithms and Experiments
        ALG: ENGG Workshop on Algorithm Engineering
        LPMA: Intl Workshop on Logic Programming and Multi-Agents
        EWLR: European Workshop on Learning Robots
        CITB: Complexity & info-theoretic approaches to biology
        FTP: Intl Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving (FTP)
        CSL: Annual Conf on Computer Science Logic (CSL)
        AAAAECC: Conf On Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algms & ECC
        DMTCS: Intl Conf on Disc Math and TCS
        JCDCG: Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry

Un-ranked:
        Information Theory Workshop
        CL: International Conference on Computational Logic
        COSIT: Spatial Information Theory
        ETAPS: European joint conference on Theory And Practice of Software
        ICCS: International Conference on Conceptual Structures
        ICISC: Information Security and Cryptology
        PPSN: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
        SOFSEM: Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics
        TPHOLs: Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics
        WADT: Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques
        TERM: THEMATIC TERM: Semigroups, Algorithms, Automata and Languages
        IMGTA: Italian Meeting on Game Theory and Applications
        DLT: Developments in Language Theory
        International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications
        APPROX: International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
        WAE: Workshop on Algorithm Engineering
        CMFT: Computational Methods and Function Theory
        AWOCA: Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms
        Fun with Algorithms Meeting
        ICTCS: Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science
        ComMaC: International Conference On Computational Mathematics
        TLCA: Typed Lambda Calculus and Applications
        DCAGRS: Workshop on Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures

AREA: Artificial Intelligence and Related Subjects

Rank 1:
        AAAI: American Association for AI National Conference
        CVPR: IEEE Conf on Comp Vision and Pattern Recognition
        IJCAI: Intl Joint Conf on AI
        ICCV: Intl Conf on Computer Vision
        ICML: Intl Conf on Machine Learning
        KDD: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
        KR: Intl Conf on Principles of KR & Reasoning
        NIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems
        UAI: Conference on Uncertainty in AI
        AAMAS: Intl Conf on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (past: ICAA)
        ACL: Annual Meeting of the ACL (Association of Computational Linguistics)

Rank 2:
        NAACL: North American Chapter of the ACL
        AID: Intl Conf on AI in Design
        AI-ED: World Conference on AI in Education
        CAIP: Inttl Conf on Comp. Analysis of Images and Patterns
        CSSAC: Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference
        ECCV: European Conference on Computer Vision
        EAI: European Conf on AI
        EML: European Conf on Machine Learning
        GECCO: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (used to be GP)
        IAAI: Innovative Applications in AI
        ICIP: Intl Conf on Image Processing
        ICNN/IJCNN: Intl (Joint) Conference on Neural Networks
        ICPR: Intl Conf on Pattern Recognition
        ICDAR: International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
        ICTAI: IEEE conference on Tools with AI
        AMAI: Artificial Intelligence and Maths
        DAS: International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems
        WACV: IEEE Workshop on Apps of Computer Vision
        COLING: International Conference on Computational Liguistics
        EMNLP: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
        EACL: Annual Meeting of European Association Computational Lingustics
        CoNLL: Conference on Natural Language Learning
        DocEng: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
        IEEE/WIC International Joint Conf on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
        ICDM - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

Rank 3:
        PRICAI: Pacific Rim Intl Conf on AI
        AAI: Australian National Conf on AI
        ACCV: Asian Conference on Computer Vision
        AI*IA: Congress of the Italian Assoc for AI
        ANNIE: Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering
        ANZIIS: Australian/NZ Conf on Intelligent Inf. Systems
        CAIA: Conf on AI for Applications
        CAAI: Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference
        ASADM: Chicago ASA Data Mining Conf: A Hard Look at DM
        EPIA: Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
        FCKAML: French Conf on Know. Acquisition & Machine Learning
        ICANN: International Conf on Artificial Neural Networks
        ICCB: International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
        ICGA: International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
        ICONIP: Intl Conf on Neural Information Processing
        IEA/AIE: Intl Conf on Ind. & Eng. Apps of AI & Expert Sys
        ICMS: International Conference on Multiagent Systems
        ICPS: International conference on Planning Systems
        IWANN: Intl Work-Conf on Art & Natural Neural Networks
        PACES: Pacific Asian Conference on Expert Systems
        SCAI: Scandinavian Conference on Artifical Intelligence
        SPICIS: Singapore Intl Conf on Intelligent System
        PAKDD: Pacific-Asia Conf on Know. Discovery & Data Mining
        SMC: IEEE Intl Conf on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
        PAKDDM: Practical App of Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
        WCNN: The World Congress on Neural Networks
        WCES: World Congress on Expert Systems
        ASC: Intl Conf on AI and Soft Computing
        PACLIC: Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
        ICCC: International Conference on Chinese Computing
        ICADL: International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries
        RANLP: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
        NLPRS: Natural Language Pacific Rim Symposium
        Meta-Heuristics International Conference

Others:
        ICRA: IEEE Intl Conf on Robotics and Automation
        NNSP: Neural Networks for Signal Processing
        ICASSP: IEEE Intl Conf on Acoustics, Speech and SP
        GCCCE: Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education
        ICAI: Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence
        AEN: IASTED Intl Conf on AI, Exp Sys & Neural Networks
        WMSCI: World Multiconfs on Sys, Cybernetics & Informatics
        LREC: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
        AIMSA: Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications
        AISC: Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation
        CIA: Cooperative Information Agents
        International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation
        Pattern Matching
        ECAL: European Conference on Artificial Life
        EKAW: Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management
        EMMCVPR: Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
        EuroGP: European Conference on Genetic Programming
        FoIKS: Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems
        IAWTIC: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce
        ICAIL: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
        SMIS: International Syposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems
        IS&N: Intelligence and Services in Networks
        JELIA: Logics in Artificial Intelligence
        KI: German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
        KRDB: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases
        MAAMAW: Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World
        NC: ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation
        PKDD: Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
        SBIA: Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
        Scale-Space: Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision
        XPS: Knowledge-Based Systems
        I2CS: Innovative Internet Computing Systems
        TARK: Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge Meeting
        MKM: International Workshop on Mathematical Knowledge Management
        ACIVS: International Conference on Advanced Concepts For Intelligent Vision Systems
        ATAL: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
        LACL: International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics

AREA: Biomedical

Rank 1:
        RECOMB: Annual Intl Conf on Comp Molecular Biology
        ISMB: International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology

Rank 2:
        AMIA: American Medical Informatics Annual Fall Symposium
        DNA: Meeting on DNA Based Computers
        WABI: Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics

Rank 3:
        MEDINFO: World Congress on Medical Informatics
        International Conference on Sequences and their Applications
        ECAIM: European Conf on AI in Medicine
        APAMI: Asia Pacific Assoc for Medical Informatics Conf
         INBS: IEEE Intl Symp on Intell. in Neural & Bio Systems

Un-ranked:
        MCBC: Wses conf on Mathematics And Computers In Biology And Chemistry
        KDDMBD - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Biological Databases Meeting

AREA: Miscellaneous

Rank 1:

Rank 2:
        CSCW: Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (*)

Rank 3:
        SAC: ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
        ICSC: Internal Computer Science Conference
        ISCIS: Intl Symp on Computer and Information Sciences
        ICSC2: International Computer Symposium Conference
        ICCE: International Conference on Computers in Education
        WCC: World Computing Congress
        PATAT: Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling

Unranked:
        ICCI: International Conference on Cognitive Informatics
        APISIT: Asia Pacific International Symposium on Information Technology
        CW: The International Conference on Cyberworlds
        Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems
        Workshop on Middleware for Mobile Computing
        International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
        ADL: Advances in Digital Libraries
        ADT: Specification of Abstract Data Type Workshops
        AVI: Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
        DL: Digital Libraries
        DLog: Description Logics
        ECDL: European Conference on Digital Libraries
        EDCC: European Dependable Computing Conference
        FroCos: Frontiers of Combining Systems
        FTCS: Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
        IFIP World Computer Congress
        INTEROP: Interoperating Geographic Information Systems
        IO: Information Outlook
        IQ: MIT Conference on Information Quality
        IUC: International Unicode Conference
        IWMM: International Workshop on Memory Management
        MD: IEEE Meta-Data Conference
        Middleware
        MLDM: Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition
        POS: Workshop on Persistent Object Systems
        SCCC: International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society
        SPIRE: String Processing and Information Retrieval
        TABLEAUX: Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods
        TIME Workshops
        TREC: Text REtrieval Conference
        UIDIS: User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems
        VRML Conference
        AFIPS: American Federation of Information Processing Societies
        ACSC: Australasian Computer Science Conference
        CMCS: Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science
        BCTCS: British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science
        IJCAR: The International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning
        STRATEGIES: International Workshop on Strategies in Automated Deduction
        UNIF: International Workshop on Unification
        SOCO: Meeting on Soft Computing
        ConCoord: International Workshop on Concurrency and Coordination
        CIAA: International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata
        Workshop on Information Stucture, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics
        RANDOM: International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science
        WMC: Workshop on Membrane Computing
        FI-CS: Fixed Points in Computer Science
        DC Computer Science Conference
        Workshop on Novel Approaches to Hard Discrete Optimization
        NALAC: Numerical Analysis, Linear Algebra And Computations Conference
        ICLSSC: International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations
        ISACA : Information Systems Audit and Control Association International Conference
        ICOSAHOM: International Conference On Spectral And High Order Methods
        AIP: International Conference on Applied Inverse Problems: Theoretical and Computational Aspects
        ECCM: European Conference On Computational Mechanics
        Scicade: Scientific Computing and Differential Equation
        BMVC: British Machine Vision Conference
        COMEP: Euroconference On Computational Mechanics And Engineering Practis
        JCIS: Joint Conference on Information Sciences
        CHP: Compilers for High Performance conference
        SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing

Last Updated on March 29th, 2008