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

 * 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
 * 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:


 * 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

Logic

 * LICS – ACM–IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
 * RTA – International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications

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

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:
 * CAV – Computer Aided Verification
 * FORTE – IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems

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
 * 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:
 * HiPC - International Conference on High Performance Computing
 * SC - ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference

Operating systems
Conferences on operating systems, storage systems and middleware:


 * ATC - USENIX Annual Technical Conference
 * 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-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:


 * GlobeCom - IEEE Global Communications Conference
 * ICC - IEEE International Conference on Communications
 * ICSOC - International Conference on Service Oriented Computing
 * INFOCOM - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
 * 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
 * SenSys - ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Security and privacy
Conferences on computer security and privacy:
 * DSN - International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

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
 * 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
 * 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
 * RuleML - RuleML Symposium

Evolutionary computation
Conferences on Evolutionary computation.
 * AE - Artificial Evolution Conference
 * CEC - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
 * GECCO - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

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 - 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
 * SSIAI - IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation

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