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 (e.g. refereed full paper track). 

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

       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

 

  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

       PACES: Pacific Asian Conference on Expert Systems

       PAKDD: Pacific-Asia Conf on Know. Discovery & Data Mining

       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

 

  Un-ranked:

       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

       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

       XPS: Knowledge-Based Systems

       I2CS: Innovative Internet Computing Systems

       ATAL: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

       LACL: International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics

 

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

       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

  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

       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: Applications and Media

  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(may)

  Rank 2:

       IEEE Visualization

       EUROGRAPH: European Graphics Conference

       CGI: Computer Graphics International

       CANIM: Computer Animation

       PG: Pacific Graphics

       ICME: Intl Conf on MMedia & Expo(July)

       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

       MMCN: ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking

       JCDL: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

       ICWE: International Conference on Web Engineering(July)

       European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL)(September)

  Rank 3:

       ACM-HPC: ACM Hypertext Conf (August)

       MMM: Multimedia Modelling(January)

       DSS: Distributed Simulation Symposium

       SCSC: Summer Computer Simulation Conference

       WCSS: World Congress on Systems Simulation

       ESS: European Simulation Symposium

       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:

       WikiSym: International Symposium on Wikis (October)

       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

       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

       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

       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

       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

       PDCAT: International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications, and Techniques

       Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference

       WCCE: World Conference on Computers in Education

       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

       PARA: Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing

       IW-MMDBMS - Int. Workshop on Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems

 

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

       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

       ICNP: Intl Conf on Network Protocols

       PACT: Intl Conf on Parallel Arch and Compil Tech

       RTAS: IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium

       ICDCS: IEEE Intl Conf on Distributed Comp Systems

  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

       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 Inform and Comm. Security

       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

       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

       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

       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

       DSN: The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

       GTVMT: International Workshop on Graph Transformation and Visual Modeling Techniques

 

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

       CAiSE: Intl Conf on Advanced Info System Engineering

       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

       WCRE: SIGSOFT Working Conf on Reverse Engineering

       PPDP: Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming

       GCSE: International Conference on Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering

  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

       Intl Conf of Z Users

       IFIP Joint Int'l Conference on Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing, And Verification

       UML: International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language

 

  Un-ranked:

       Australian Software Engineering Conference

       IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering

       The Northern Formal Methods Workshops

       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

       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

       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

       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

       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

       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

       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

       WRS: International Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming

       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

       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

       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

       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

       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

       COSIT: Spatial Information Theory

       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

       International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications

       APPROX: Internationl 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

       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: 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

       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)

       ICDM - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

       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

       KRDB - Knowledge Representation Meets Databases

       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

 

AREA: BioMedical

 

  Rank 1:

       RECOMB: Annual Intl Conf on Comp Molecular Biology

       ISMB: 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

       CITB: Complexity & info-theoretic approaches to biology

  Unranked:

       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: Intl Computer Science Conference

       ISCIS: Intl Symp on Computer and Information Sciences

       ICSC2: International Computer Symposium Conference

       ICCE:  Intl Conf on Comps in Edu

       WCC:  World Computing Congress

       PATAT:  Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling

  Un-ranked:

       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

       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

       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

       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

       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

       Workshop on Novel Approaches to Hard Discrete Optimization

       NALAC: Numerical Analysis, Linear Algebra And Computations Conference

       ICLSSC: International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations

       ECCM: European Conference On Computational Mechanics

       JCIS: Joint Conference on Information Sciences

       CHP: Compilers for High Performance conference

       SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing

 

 

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

       SSCCII: Symposium of Santa Caterina on Challenges in Internet and Interdisciplinary research

       IASTED conferences

       CCCT: International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies