Original link http://yamlb.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/ranking-conferences/
Date 2007-03-09
Status publish

In the machine learning/artificial intelligence field, conferences are as important as journals. Maybe even more important.

Having a good publication list is crutial for a researcher, for getting a PhD degree, finding a postdoc, a job, a grant, being promoted, becoming famous and ultimately getting married. (I’m not sure for the last one, does anybody have ever dated a grirl thanks to his publication history?).

Anyway, “recuiters” have to rank candidates. So they have to rank conferences. Such a conference ranking will always be fuzzy and controversial, but here are several temptatives. The first one, done by autralian university seems to me the most serious. The “Top 6 list” are in the field of machine learning/Artifical intelligence/computer vision/pattern recognition depending on the ranking method.

Organisation:

  1. Link to ranking
  2. authors
  3. quotations from the website
  4. my comments
  5. Top6
  6. Criteria

Rankings:

  1. link
  2. Done by College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at the ANU and National ICT Australia (NICTA)
  3. "NICTA and ANU are coordinating an Australia wide effort to develop a ranking for the ICT conferences, typically attended by Australian academics in Computing and Electrical Engineering." "[...] the main mode of research dissemination is through conferences and not journal literature." John W. Lloyd "it may be valuable to have robust indicators from conference data for appointments and promotions."John W. Lloyd
  4. Seems more seriours Different subfilds, including robotics
  5. Top 6 machine learning : AAAI AAMAS ACL AIED CADE COLT Top 6 robotics : CDC ICARCV ICASSP IEEECDC FSR ICRA IEEEIV
  6. Criteria
    • reputation in its field
    • importance of paper for the field
    • researchers boast about getting accepted
    • Low Acceptance rates
    • leading program committee from top institutions

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  1. link
  2. done by a phD student Guofei Gu, Georgia Tech, USA
  3. "This is not an OFFICIAL, nor ACCURATE list. ONLY FOR REFERENCE." "As we all know, conference is more important than journal in computer science area."
  4. maybe outdated
  5. Top 6 machine learning : AAAI CVPR IJCAI ICCV ICML KDD
  6. Criteria :
    • Acceptance ratio
    • Paper quality and impact
    • Committee member quality
    • Attendee/Paper number ratio
    • Location
    • History
    • Industry connection

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  1. link
  2. Done by Osmar R. Zaïane, Ph.D., Associate Professor, univ of Alberta, Canada
  3. "Top conferences [...] should be equivalent, if not superior in impact and prestige, to reputable journals."
  4. Several subfields
  5. Top 6 machine learning : IJCAI AAAI ICML UAI UM NIPS
  6. Criteria
    • general reputation
    • citation of the papers published
    • reputation of program committee
    • reputation of the review process

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  1. link
  2. Done by unknown
  3. research work, without any garanties seems to rely on SVMs proposes also a journal ranks
  4. Top 6 machine learning : AAAI NIPS IJCAI ICCV CVPR ICAA ICML
  5. Criteria
    • EIC (=Estimated Impact of Conference) not defined on the site.