Conferences

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First Tier

General

• IJCAI - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• AAAI - International Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (formerly the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence; sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)

Specialized: Methodology-Oriented?

• KDD - International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD)

• ICML - International Conference on Machine Learning

• SIGMOD/PODS - International Conference on Principles of Database Systems, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Modeling of Data (ACM SIGMOD)

• UAI - International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, sponsored by the Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (AUAI)

• NIPS - International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, sponsored by the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation

• GECCO - International Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO); formerly sponsored by the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC)

• CEC - International Congress on Evolutionary Computation, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); sometimes part of WCCI (see below)

• COLT - International Conference on Computational Learning Theory

• ICCBR - International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning

• SIGGRAPH - International Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques

Specialized: Application-Oriented

• [http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/iaai08.php

• SMC - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

• SIGIR - International Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval

• COLING - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, sponsored by the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)

• ACL - Annual Meeting of the Association for Computatiuonal Linguistics

• IUI - International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

• WWW - International World Wide Web Conference

• RECOMB - International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology

• ISMB - International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, sponsored by the International Society for Computational Biology

• CVPR - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Second Tier

General

• WCCI - World Congress on Computational Intelligence

• SDM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Data Mining

Specialized: Methodology-Oriented?

• ICDE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Data Engineering

• PAKDD - Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

• ECML - European Conference on Machine Learning

• EuroGP - European Conference on Genetic Programming

• ILP - International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming

• ICONIP - International Conference on Neural Information Processing

• MLG - International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs

Specialized: Application-Oriented?

• SAC - Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Applied Computing

• ICPR - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition

• DS - International Conference on Discovery Science
• CoNLL - Conference on Natural Language Learning

• PSB - Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing

• CG - Conference on Computational Genomics

• CSNA - Annual Meeting of the Classification Society of North America

• Sunbelt - International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, sponsored by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)

• ICWSM - International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

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