List of computer science conferences
This is a list of academic conferences in computer science. Only conferences with separate articles are included; within each field, the conferences are listed alphabetically by their short names.
General
Algorithms and theory
Conferences accepting a broad range of topics from theoretical computer science, including algorithms, data structures, computability, computational complexity, automata theory and formal languages:
- CCC - Computational Complexity Conference
- FCT – International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory
- FOCS – IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
- ICALP – International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
- ISAAC – International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
- MFCS – International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
- STACS – Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
- STOC – ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
- WoLLIC – Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
Algorithms
Conferences whose topic is algorithms and data structures considered broadly, but that do not include other areas of theoretical computer science such as computational complexity theory:
Geometric algorithms
Conferences on computational geometry, graph drawing, and other application areas of geometric computing:
Logic
Other specialized subtopics
- CIAA – International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata
- CCC – Computational Complexity Conference
- DCFS – International Workshop on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems
- DLT – International Conference on Developments in Language Theory
- ISSAC – International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
- Petri Nets - International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency
Languages and software
Programming languages
Conferences on programming languages, programming language theory and compilers:
- CC International Conference on Compiler Construction
- ECOOP – AITO European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
- ESOP – ETAPS European Symposium on Programming
- HOPL – ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference
- ICFP – ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming
- ICLP – ALP International Conference on Logic Programming
- ISMM – ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management
- OOPSLA – ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications
- POPL – ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
- PLDI – ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
Software engineering
Conferences on software engineering:
- ASE – IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
- ICSE – International Conference on Software Engineering
- ICSR – International Conference on Software Reuse
- TACAS - ETAPS International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
- FoSSaCS - ETAPS International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- FASE - ETAPS International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Formal methods
Conferences on formal methods in software engineering, including formal specification, formal verification, and static code analysis:
Concurrent, distributed and parallel computing
Conferences on concurrent, distributed, and parallel computing, fault-tolerant systems, and dependable systems:
- DEBS - ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems
- DISC - International Symposium on Distributed Computing
- DSN - International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
- ICDCS - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
- ICPADS - IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
- IPDPS - IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
- PODC - ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
- PPoPP - ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
- SIROCCO - International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity
- SPAA - ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures
- SRDS - IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
High-performance computing
Conferences on high-performance computing, cluster computing, and grid computing:
Operating systems
Conferences on operating systems, storage systems and middleware:
- ATC - USENIX Annual Technical Conference
- FAST - USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
- Middleware - ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference
- SOSP - ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
- SYSTOR - ACM International Systems and Storage Conference
Computer architecture
Conferences on computer architecture:
- ASPLOS - International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
- ISCA - International Symposium on Computer Architecture
- MICRO - IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Computer hardware
Conferences on computer hardware:
- ISCAS - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Computer-aided design
Conferences on computer-aided design and electronic design automation:
Computer networking
Conferences on computer networking:
- GlobeCom - IEEE Global Communications Conference
- ICC - IEEE International Conference on Communications
- ICSOC - International Conference on Service Oriented Computing
- INFOCOM - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
- SIGCOMM - ACM SIGCOMM Conference
- SIGMETRICS - ACM SIGMETRICS
- WINE - The Workshop on Internet & Network Economics
Wireless networks and mobile computing
Wireless networks and mobile computing, including ubiquitous and pervasive computing, wireless ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks:
- EWSN - European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
- IPSN - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
- ISWC - International Symposium on Wearable Computers
- MobiHoc - ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
- SenSys - ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Security and privacy
Conferences on computer security and privacy:
Cryptography
Cryptography conferences:
- ACNS - Applied Cryptography and Network Security
- ANTS - Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
- ASIACRYPT - International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security
- CHES - Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
- CRYPTO - International Cryptology Conference
- EUROCRYPT - International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques
- FSE - Fast Software Encryption Workshop
- PKC - International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography
- RSA - RSA Conference
- TCC - Theory of Cryptography Conference
Data management
Conferences on databases, information systems, information retrieval, data mining and the world wide web:
- CIDR - Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
- CIKM - ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
- ECIR - European Conference on Information Retrieval
- ECIS - European Conference on Information Systems
- ER - International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
- ICDT - International Conference on Database Theory
- ICIS - International Conference on Information Systems
- ISWC - International Semantic Web Conference
- JCDL - ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
- KDD - ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- PODS - ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems
- SIGIR - Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
- SIGMOD - ACM SIGMOD Conference
- VLDB - International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
- WWW - World Wide Web Conference
Artificial intelligence
Conferences on artificial intelligence and machine learning:
- AAAI - AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- AAMAS - International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
- CIBB - International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
- ECAI - European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- ECML PKDD - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
- ICML - International Conference on Machine Learning
- ICLR - International Conference on Learning Representations
- IJCAI - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- ISWC - International Semantic Web Conference
- NeurIPS - Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
- RuleML - RuleML Symposium
Evolutionary computation
Conferences on Evolutionary computation.
Automated reasoning
Conferences on automated reasoning:
- IJCAR - International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning
- LPAR - International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning
- RuleML - RuleML Symposium
- TABLEAUX - International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods
- WoLLIC - Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
Computer vision
Conferences on computer vision (including also image analysis) and pattern recognition:
- BMVC - British Machine Vision Conference
- CVPR - Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- ECCV - European Conference on Computer Vision
- ICCV - International Conference on Computer Vision
- SCIA - Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis
- SSIAI - IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation
Natural language processing
Conferences on computational linguistics and natural language processing:
- ACL - Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- EMNLP - Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- NAACL - Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- COLING - International Committee on Computational Linguistics
- TSD - Text, Speech and Dialogue
- CICLing - International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics
Computer graphics
Conferences on computer graphics, geometry processing, image processing, and multimedia:
- Eurographics - Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics
- MM - ACM International Conference on Multimedia
- SGP - Symposium on Geometry Processing
- SIGGRAPH - International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Visualization
Conferences on scientific visualization and information visualization:
Human–computer interaction
Conferences on human–computer interaction and user interfaces:
- ASSETS - International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
- CHI - ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- GI - Graphics Interface
- MobileHCI - Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
- SIGDOC - ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
- UIST - ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
- UMAP - ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
Bioinformatics and computational biology
Conferences on bioinformatics and computational biology:
Education
Conferences on computer science education and electronic learning:
- SIGCSE - ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education