Important Conferences

Papers published on 1st tier venues are “cakes” while others are “icing” 🍰.

Here is a useful 🔗WEBSITE summarizing all important conference DDLs.

Database

• ACM SIGMOD/PODS (1st tier)
• VLDB (1st tier)
• IEEE ICDE (1.5 tier)
• EDBT/ICDT/CIDR (1.75 tier)

System

• USENIX OSDI (1st tier in OS)
• ACM SOSP (1st tier in OS)
• ISCA (1st tier in Computer Architecture)
• IEEE HPCA (1st tier in Computer Architecture)
• MICRO (1st tier in Computer Architecture)
• SC (1st tier in HPC)
• ACM ASPLOS (1st tier in General Systems)
• USENIX ATC (1st tier in General Systems)
• ACM EuroSys (1st tier in General Systems)

Data Mining & Information Retrieval

• ACM SIGKDD (1st tier)
• ACM SIGIR (1st tier)
• IEEE ICDM (1.5 tier)
• ACM WSDM (1.5 tier)