Computer Science Conference Rankings

Some conferences accept multiple categories of papers.The rankings below are for the most prestigious category of papers at a given conference; All other categories should be treated as "unranked".

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
       WCNC: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
 

  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:
       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
       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)
       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
       HASKELL - Haskell Workshop
       LCCS - International Workshop on Logic and Complexity in Computer Science
       VLFM - Visual Languages and Formal Methods
       NASA LaRC Formal Methods Workshop
       (1) FATES - A Satellite workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software
       (1) Workshop On Java For High-Performance Computing
       (1) DSLSE - Domain-Specific Languages for Software Engineering
       (1) 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


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: 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
       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: 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
       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

  Others:
       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
       KDDMBD - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Biological Databases Meeting
       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
       (1) DASWIS - Data Semantics in Web Information Systems
       (1) DMDW - Design and Management of Data Warehouses
       (1) DOLAP - International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP
       (1) DMKD - Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
       (1) KDEX - Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop
       (1) NRDM - Workshop on Network-Related Data Management
       (1) MobiDE - Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access
       (1) MDDS - Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems
       (1) MEWS - Mining for Enhanced Web Search
       (1) TAKMA - Theory and Applications of Knowledge MAnagement
       (1) WIDM: International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management
       (1) 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
       * IW-MMDBMS - Int. Workshop on Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems
       * OODBS - Workshop on Object-Oriented Database Systems
       * PDIS: Parallel and Distributed Information Systems

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
       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 Natural Language Processing

  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
       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
       AEN: IASTED Intl Conf on AI, Exp Sys & Neural Networks
       WMSCI: World Multiconfs on Sys, Cybernetics & Informatics

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
       ISSS: International Symposium on System Synthesis
       DATE: IEEE/ACM Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference

  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
       MMCN: ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking

  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

  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
       ICMS: IASTED Intl Conf on Modelling and Simulation

AREA: Miscellaneous

  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