List of computer science conferences

This is a list of current and past 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

FCRC – Federated Computing Research Conference

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
STACS – Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
STOC – ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

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:

ESA – European Symposium on Algorithms
SODA – ACM–SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
SWAT and WADS – SWAT and WADS conferences

Geometric algorithms

Conferences on computational geometry, graph drawing, and other application areas of geometric computing:

GD – International Symposium on Graph Drawing
SoCG – Symposium on Computational Geometry

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
RP – International Conference on Reachability Problems
SEA – Symposium on Experimental Algorithms

Languages and software

Programming languages

Conferences on programming languages, programming language theory and compilers:

CC International Conference on Compiler Construction
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
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
ISSRE – IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
FoSSaCS – ETAPS International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
FASE – ETAPS International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
WWDC - Worldwide Developers Conference

Formal methods and logic

Conferences on formal methods (including formal verification), logic, and automated reasoning:

CAV – Computer Aided Verification
FORTE – IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems
IJCAR - International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning
LICS – ACM–IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
LPAR - International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning
TACAS – ETAPS International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
RuleML - RuleML Symposium
WoLLIC - Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation

Concurrent, distributed and parallel computing

Conferences on concurrent, distributed, and parallel computing, fault-tolerant systems, and dependable systems:

CONCUR - International Conference on Concurrency Theory
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
IPDPS - IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
PODC - ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
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:

HiPC - International Conference on High Performance Computing
SC - ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis

Operating systems

Conferences on operating systems, storage systems and middleware:

ATC - USENIX Annual Technical Conference
SOSP - ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
OSDI - USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

Computer architecture

Conferences on computer architecture:

ASPLOS - International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
ISSCC — International Solid-State Circuits Conference
ISCA - International Symposium on Computer Architecture
MICRO - IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture

Computer-aided design

Conferences on computer-aided design and electronic design automation:

ASP-DAC - Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
DAC - Design Automation Conference
DATE - Design, Automation, and Test in Europe
ICCAD - International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
ISPD - International Symposium on Physical Design

Computer networking

Conferences on computer networking:

NSDI - USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
GlobeCom - IEEE Global Communications Conference
ICC - IEEE International Conference on Communications
ICSOC - International Conference on Service Oriented Computing
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
ISWC - International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Security and privacy

Conferences on computer security and privacy:

CCS - Computer and Communications Security
DSN - International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
NDSS - Network and Distributed System Security
S&P - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
USENIX Security - USENIX Security Symposium

Cryptography

Cryptography conferences:

ANTS - Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
RSA - RSA Conference

Data management

Conferences on databases, information systems, information retrieval, data mining and the World Wide Web:

BTW - GI Conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web
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
PODS - ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems
SIGMOD - ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data
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
ICAPS - International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
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

Evolutionary computation

Conferences on Evolutionary computation.

CEC - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
EA - Artificial Evolution
EvoStar
FOGA - Foundations of Genetic Algorithms
GECCO - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
PPSN - Parallel Problem Solving from Nature

Computer vision

Conferences on computer vision (including also image analysis) and pattern recognition:

CVPR - IEEE 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

Natural language processing

Conferences on computational linguistics and natural language processing:

EMNLP - Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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:

MM - ACM International Conference on Multimedia
SGP - Symposium on Geometry Processing
SIGGRAPH - International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

Human–computer interaction

Conferences on human–computer interaction and user interfaces:

CHI - ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
GI - Graphics Interface
MobileHCI - Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
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:

CIBB - International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
ISMB - Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
PSB - Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
RECOMB - Research in Computational Molecular Biology