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: 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:
DAWAK: Int Conf on Data
Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
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
ACM CIKM: ACM Intl. Conf on
Information and Knowledge Management
SSDBM: Intl Conf on Scientific and Statistical DB
Mgmt
CoopIS - Conference on Cooperative
Information Systems
MDM - IEEE nt. Conf. on Mobile Data Access/Management
(MDA/MDM)
ICDM - IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining
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
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: 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: 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
IASTED
conferences
CCCT: International
Conference on Computer, Communication and Control
Technologies