Computer Science Department Conference Rankings Some conferences accept multiple categories of papers. The rankings below are for the most prestigious category of paper at a given conference. All other categories should be treated as "unranked". 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 KR: Intl Conf on Principles of KR & Reasoning NIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems UAI: Conference on Uncertainty in AI ICAA: International Conference on Autonomous Agents ACL: Annual Meeting of the ACL (Association of Computational Linguistics) Rank 2: 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 GP: Genetic Programming Conference 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 National Language Processing Rank 3: PRICAI: Pacific Rim Intl Conf on AI AAI: Australian National Conf on AI ACCV: Asian Conference on Computer Vision AEN: IASTED Intl Conf on AI, Exp Sys & Neural Networks 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 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 SMC: IEEE Intl Conf on Systems, Man and Cybernetics WMSCI: World Multiconfs on Sys, Cybernetics & Informatics WCNN: The World Congress on Neural Networks WCES: World Congress on Expert Systems INBS: IEEE Intl Symp on Intell. in Neural \& Bio Systems ASC: Intl Conf on AI and Soft Computing PACLIC: Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation ICCC: International Conference on Chinese Computing 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 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: 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 Rank 3: ICA3PP: Algs and Archs for Parall Proc EuroMICRO: New Frontiers of Information Technology ACS: Australian Supercomputing Conf Unranked: 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 AREA: Applications Rank 1: I3DG: ACM-SIGRAPH Interactive 3D Graphics SIGGRAPH: ACM SIGGRAPH Conference ACM-MM: ACM Multimedia Conference DCC: Data Compression Conf SIGMETRICS: ACM Conf on Meas. & Modelling of Comp Sys SIGIR: ACM SIGIR Conf on Information Retrieval PECCS: IFIP Intl Conf on Perf Eval of Comp \& Comm Sys WWW: World-Wide Web Conference Rank 2: EUROGRAPH: European Graphics Conference CGI: Computer Graphics International CANIM: Computer Animation PG: Pacific Graphics IEEE-MM: IEEE Intl Conf on Multimedia Computing and Sys NOSSDAV: Network and OS Support for Digital A/V PADS: ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Parallel \& Dist Simulation WSC: Winter Simulation Conference ASS: 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 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 ICMS: IASTED Intl Conf on Modelling and Simulation 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 Un-ranked: DVAT: IS\&T/SPIE Conf on Dig Video Compression Alg \& Tech MME: IEEE Intl Conf. on Multimedia in Education ICMSO: Intl Conf on Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation 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 MassPar: Symp on Frontiers of Massively Parallel Proc RTSS: Real Time Systems Symp SOSP: ACM SIGOPS Symp on OS Principles SOSDI: Usenix Symp on OS Design and Implementation CCS: ACM Conf on Comp and Communications Security IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy MOBICOM: ACM Intl Conf on Mobile Computing and Networking USENIX Conf on Internet Tech and Sys ICNP: Intl Conf on Network Protocols OPENARCH: IEEE Conf on Open Arch and Network Prog PACT: Intl Conf on Parallel Arch and Compil Tech 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 ICDCS: IEEE Intl Conf on Distributed Comp Systems 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 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 IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop 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 IMSA: Intl Conf on Internet and MMedia Sys NCC: Nat Conf Comm IN: IEEE Intell Network Workshop ICME: Intl Conf on MMedia & Expo 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 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 Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (inc: ESEC-FSE when held jointly) FM/FME: Formal Methods, World Congress/Europe CAV: Computer Aided Verification Rank 2: 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 CP: Intl Conf on Principles & Practice of Constraint Prog RTA: Rewriting Techniques and Applications ESEC: European Software Engineering Conf IWSSD: Intl Workshop on S/W Spec & Design CAiSE: Intl Conf on Advanced Info System Engineering ITC: IEEE Intl Test Conf IWCASE: Intl Workshop on Cumpter-Aided Software Eng 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 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 CSM: Conf on Software Maintenance 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) Un-ranked: TOOLS: Int'l Conf Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems IFIP Int. Workshop on SE for Parallel and Distributed Systems UML: International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language Eurographics W'shop on Design, Spec. and V'fication Of Int. Sys. Australian Software Engineering Conference IEEE Int. W'shop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Sys. (WORDS) IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering Australasian Conference on Parallel And Real-Time Systems The Northern Formal Methods Workshops Formal Methods Pacific Int. Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems NASA LaRC Formal Methods Workshop 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 PODC: ACM Symp on Principles of Distributed Computing ISSAC: Intl. Symp on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation CRYPTO: Advances in Cryptology EUROCRYPT: European Conf on Cryptography Rank 2: CONCUR 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 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 RECOMB: Annual Intl Conf on Comp Molecular Biology 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 Un-ranked: Information Theory Workshop AREA: Data Mining Rank 1: KDD: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining ICDM: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Rank 2: SDM: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining PKDD: European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) Rank 3: PAKDD: Pacific-Asia Conf on Know. Discovery & Data Mining PAKDDM: Practical App of Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining DMKD - Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Others: ASADM: Chicago ASA Data Mining Conf: A Hard Look at DM KDDMBD - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Biological Databases Meeting AREA: Data Bases 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 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 CIKM: Intl. Conf on Information and Knowledge Management 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 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 Others: SBBD: Brazilian Symposium on Databases CODAS: Intl Symp on Cooperative DB Systems for Adv Apps PDIS: Parallel and Distributed Information Systems WIDM: International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management DaWaK - Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery DBPL - Workshop on Database Programming Languages DMDW - Design and Management of Data Warehouses DOLAP - International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP EFIS/EFDBS - Engineering Federated Information (Database) Systems IWDOM - International Workshop on Distributed Object Management IW-MMDBBS - Int. Workshop on Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems KRDB - Knowledge Representation Meets Databases NLDB - Applications of Natural Language to Data Bases OODBS - Workshop on Object-Oriented Database Systems WebDB - International Workshop on the Web and Databases DTVE - Workshop on Database Technology for Virtual Enterprises FQAS - Flexible Query-Answering Systems NRDM - Workshop on Network-Related Data Management MobiDE - Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access MDDS - Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems ARTDB - Active and Real-Time Database Systems CDB - Constraint Databases and Applications IDC(W) - International Database Conference (Workshop) KDEX - Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop RTDB - Workshop on Real-Time Databases AREA: Miscellaneous Rank 1: Rank 2: AMIA: American Medical Informatics Annual Fall Symposium DNA: Meeting on DNA Based Computers 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 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: Intl Conf on Comps in Edu Ed-Media WCC: World Computing Congress PATAT: Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling Not Encouraged (due to dubious referee process): International Multiconferences in Computer Science -- 14 joint int'l confs. SCI: World Multi confs on systemics, sybernetics and informatics SSGRR: International conf on Advances in Infrastructure for e-B, e-Edu and e-Science and e-Medicine