2015-2016 Related Conferences and Journal Special Issues

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Directions: DB(Database)  DM(Data Mining)  IR(Information Retrieval)  PR(Pattern Recognition)  AI(Artificial Intelligence)  ML(Machine Learning)  NLP(Natural Language Processing)  GrC(Granular Computing)  RS(Rough Sets)

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Conferences

International Conferences
Conference Submission Deadline Notification Date Conference Date Venue Publisher Direction Tier
SIGMOD'16 Jul. 9, 2015 Sep. 18, 2015 Jun. 26-Jul. 1, 2016 San Francisco, USA ACM DB A
KDD'15 Feb. 20, 2015 May 12, 2015 Aug. 10-13, 2015 Sydney, Australia ACM DM A
SIGIR'16 Jan. 14, 2016 Mar. 31, 2016 Jul. 17-21, 2016 Pisa, Italy ACM IR A
VLDB'16 Mar. 31, 2016 After 1.5-3 months Sep. 5-9, 2016 New Delhi, India VLDB DB A
ICDE'16 Oct. 19, 2015 Dec. 20, 2015 May 16-20, 2016 Helsinki, Finland IEEE DB A
AAAI'16 Sep. 10, 2015 Nov. 12, 2015 Feb. 12-17, 2016 Phoenix, Arizona, USA AAAI AI A
CVPR'16 Nov. 6, 2015 Mar. 2, 2016 Jun. 26-Jul. 1, 2016 Las Vegas, Nevada IEEE PR A
ICCV'15 Apr. 30, 2015 Sep. 14, 2015 Dec. 11-18, 2015 Santiago, Chile IEEE PR A
ICML'16 Feb. 15, 2016 May 3, 2016 Jun. 19-24, 2016 New York, NY, USA ACM ML A
IJCAI'16 Jan. 27, 2016 Apr. 4, 2016 Jul. 9-15, 2016 New York, NY, USA Morgan Kaufmann AI A
CIKM'15 May 1, 2015 Jul. 3, 2015 Oct. 19-23, 2015 Melbourne, Australia ACM IR/DM B
DASFAA'16 Oct. 19, 2015 Jan. 15, 2016 Apr. 16-19, 2016 Dallas, Texas, USA Springer DB B
ECML-PKDD'16 Apr. 1, 2016 Jun. 1, 2016 Sep. 19-23, 2016 Riva del Garda, Italy Springer ML/DM B
ICDM'15 Jun. 3, 2015 Aug. 7, 2015 Nov. 14-17, 2015 Atlantic City, NJ, USA IEEE DM B
WWW'16 Oct. 10, 2015 Dec. 15, 2015 Apr. 11-15, 2016 Montreal, Canada Springer IR/DM B
SDM'16 Oct. 9, 2015 Dec. 21, 2015 May 5-7, 2016 Miami, Florida, USA SIAM DM B
NIPS'15 Jun. 5, 2015 Sep. 6, 2015 Dec. 7-12, 2015 Montreal, Canada MIT Press AI B
ACL'16 TBA TBA Aug. 7-12, 2016 Berlin, Germany ACL NLP B
COLING'16 TBA TBA TBA Osaka, Japan ACM NLP B
EMNLP'15 May 31, 2015(long)
Jun. 15, 2015(short)		 Jul. 24, 2015 Sep. 17-21, 2015 Lisbon, Portugal ACL NLP B
ECAI'16 Apr. 15, 2016 Jun. 7, 2016 Aug. 29-Sep. 2, 2016 The Hague, Holland IOS Press AI B
UAI'15 Mar. 3, 2015 May 12, 2015 Jul. 12-16, 2015 Amsterdam, The Netherlands AUAI AI B
ICMR'15 Jan. 15, 2015 Mar. 15, 2015 Jun. 23-26, 2015 Shanghai, China ACM IR B
WSDM'16 Jul. 10, 2015 Oct. 14, 2015 Feb. 22-25, 2016 San Francisco, CA, USA ACM DM/IR C
ECIR'16 Oct. 9, 2015 Dec. 4, 2015 Mar. 20-23, 2016 Padua, Italy Springer IR C
WAIM'15 Jan. 9, 2015 Mar. 14, 2015 Jun. 8-10, 2015 Qingdao, China Springer IR/DM C
PAKDD'16 Oct. 2, 2015 Dec. 11, 2015 Apr. 19-22, 2016 Auckland, New Zealand Springer DM C
APWeb'16 Apr. 23, 2016 Jun. 20, 2016 Sep. 20-23, 2016 Suzhou, China Springer DB C
WISE'15 May 18, 2015 Jul. 6, 2015 Oct. 18-20, 2014 Miami, Florida, USA Springer DB C
CoNLL'15 May 4, 2015 Jun. 15, 2015 Jul. 30-31, 2015 Beijing, China SIGNLL NLP C
ICPR'16 Apr. 3, 2016 Jul. 7, 2016 Dec. 4-8, 2016 Cancun, Mexico IEEE PR C
ICONIP'15 May 17, 2015 Jul. 12, 2015 Nov. 9-12, 2015 Istanbul, Turkey Springer AI C
NAACL-HLT'16 Jan. 6, 2016 Mar. 2, 2016 Jun. 12–17, 2016 San Diego, CA, USA NAACL NLP C
CICLing'16 Jan. 14, 2016 Feb. 13, 2016 Apr. 3-9, 2016 Konya, Turkey Springer NLP
PACLIC'15 Aug. 12, 2015* Sep. 12, 2015* Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2015 Shanghai, China Proceedings NLP
ASONAM'15 Apr. 17, 2015 Jun. 19, 2015 Aug. 25-28, 2015 Paris, France IEEE DM
WI'15 Apr. 15, 2015 Jul. 1, 2015 Dec. 6-9, 2015 Singapore IEEE AI
GrC'15 Aug. 25, 2015* Sep. 4, 2015 Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2015 Silicon Valley, CA, USA IEEE GrC
IJCRS'15 May 17, 2015* Jun. 17, 2015 Nov. 20-23, 2015 Tianjin, China Springer RS
ACML'15 May 11, 2015(early)
Aug. 3, 2015(final)		 Jun. 11, 2015(early)
Sep. 8, 2015(final)		 Nov. 20-22, 2015 Hong Kong, China JMLR ML
AIRS'15 Jul. 26, 2015* Aug. 28, 2015 Dec. 2-4, 2015 Brisbane, Australia Springer IR
ACPR'15 Jun. 1, 2015 Aug. 17, 2015 Nov. 3-6, 2015 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia IEEE PR
DSAA'15 May 31, 2015* Jul. 6, 2015 Oct. 19-21, 2015 Paris, France IEEE DM
SMC'16 Apr. 15, 2016 May 25, 2016 Oct. 9-12, 2016 Budapest, Hungary IEEE AI
ICASSP'16 Sep. 25, 2015 Dec. 21, 2015 Mar. 20-25, 2016 Shanghai, China IEEE ML
ICWSM'16 Jan. 5, 2016 Feb. 25, 2016 May 17-20, 2016 Cologne, Germany AAAI NLP/DM
ICLR'16 Nov. 12, 2015 Feb. 4, 2016 May 2-4, 2016 San Juan, Puerto Rico arXiv ML
WCCI'16 Jan. 15, 2016 Mar. 15, 2016 Jul. 25-29, 2016 Vancouver, Canada IEEE ML,DM,RS C(IJCNN)

Here, "after 1.5-3 months" means that there are multiple reviewing cycles. For detailed information, please go to the conference website.

National Conferences
Conference Submission Deadline Notification Date Conference Date Venue Direction Remark
CNCC'15 None None Oct. 22-24, 2015 Hefei, China No CFP 2015中国计算机大会
NCIIP'15 Mar. 28, 2015* May 15, 2015* Aug. 5-7, 2015 Qingdao, China IR/DM 第五届全国智能信息处理学术会议
CCML'15 Mar. 31, 2015* May 12, 2015* Aug. 16-18, 2015 Chengdu, China ML
CCFAI'15 Mar. 25, 2015* May 10, 2015 Aug. 21-23, 2015 Taiyuan, China AI 2015年中国计算机学会人工智能会议
CCIR'15 May 31, 2015* Jun. 15, 2015* Aug. 23-25, 2015 Luoyang, China IR 第二十一届全国信息检索学术会议
NLPCC'15 Jun. 19, 2015* Jul. 31, 2015 Oct. 9-13, 2015 Nanchang, China NLP 4th CCF Conference on Natural Language Proocessing & Chinese Computing
CRSSC-CWI-CGrC'15 May 7, 2015* Jun. 8, 2015 Aug. 10-12, 2015 Tangshan, China RS/AI/GrC 第十五届中国Rough集与软计算、第九届中国Web智能及第九届中国粒计算联合学术会议
CCL'15 Jun. 15, 2015* Jul. 30, 2015* Nov. 13-14, 2015 Guangzhou, China NLP 第十四届全国计算语言学学术会议
NDBC'15 May 13, 2015* Jun. 15, 2015 Oct. 16-18, 2015 Chengdu, China DB 第三十二届中国数据库学术会议
CCF BigData'15 Jul. 31, 2015* Aug. 20, 2015 Oct. 20-21, 2015 Hefei, China DM/ML 第三届CCF大数据学术会议

Journal Special Issues

Journal Special Issue Submission Deadline Notification Date Anticipated Publication Direction Remark
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology Intelligent Music Systems and Applications Sep. 27, 2015 Apr. 24, 2016 May 22, 2016 DM
Information Sciences New Avenues in Knowledge Bases for Natural Language Processing Oct. 30, 2015 Apr. 30, 2016 Jun. 15, 2016 NLP
Information Sciences Granular Computing-based machine learning in the era of big data Sep. 1, 2015 Nov. 1, 2015 Jun. 1, 2016 ML,GrC
SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis 社会媒体处理 Aug. 15*, 2015 Oct. 15, 2015 Dec. 20, 2015 NLP,DM 中国科学：信息科学
Journal of Software 大数据时代的机器学习研究 Feb. 28, 2015(第一轮)/ May 31, 2015(第二轮) May 31, 2015(第一轮)/ Jul. 31, 2015(第二轮) Nov. 1, 2015 ML 软件学报
Journal of Computer Research and Development 面向大数据的人工智能技术 Mar. 25, 2015* May 10, 2015 Aug. 1, 2015 AI 计算机研究与发展

Journals

Journal Frequency Impact Factor (2012) Tier Partition Direction Remark
SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis 12 All 中国科学：信息科学
Chinese Journal of Computers 12 All 计算机学报
Journal of Software 12 All 软件学报
Acta Automatica Sinica 12 All 自动化学报
Journal of Computer Research and Development 12 All 计算机研究与发展
Acta Electronica Sinica 12 All 电子学报
Journal of Chinese Information Processing 6 NLP/IR 中文信息学报
Chinese Journal of Electronics(CJE) 4 0.265 4 All China
Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE C 12 0.297 4 All China
SCIENCE CHINA-Information Sciences 12 0.706 B 4 All China
Journal of Computer Science and Technology(JCST) 6 0.477 B 4 All China
Frontiers of Computer Science(FCS) 6 0.298 C 4 All China
ACM Transactions on Database Systems(TODS) 4 0.887 A 3 DB
ACM Transactions on Information Systems(TOIS) 4 1.070 A 3 DB/IR
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering(TKDE) 12 1.892 A 2 DM
VLDB Journal(VLDBJ) 6 1.395 A 2 DB
Artificial Intelligence(AI) 18 2.194 A 2 AI
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence(TPAMI) 12 4.795 A 1 PR/ML
International Journal of Computer Vision(IJCV) 15 3.623 A 1 PR
Journal of Machine Learning Research(JMLR) 1 3.420 A 2 ML
Journal of the ACM(JACM) 6 2.370 A 2 All
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing(TIP) 12 3.199 A 2 PR
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data(TKDD) 4 1.676 B 3 DM
Data and Knowledge Engineering(DKE) 6 1.519 B 4 DB
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery(DMKD) 6 2.877 B 3 DM
Information Processing and Management(IPM) 6 0.817 B 4 IR
Information Sciences 24 3.643 B 2 IR/DM
Information Systems(IS) 8 1.768 B 3 DB
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology(JASIST) 14 2.005 B 2 IR/DM
Knowledge and Information Systems(KIS) 12 B 2 DM
Computational Linguistics 4 0.940 B 2 NLP
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems(TNNLS) 6 3.766 B 2 AI Replace TNN
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing(TAC) 4 B AI
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing(TASLP) 12 1.675 B 3 PR/NLP Published jointly with TSLP
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems(TFS) 6 5.484 B 2 ML/RS
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning(IJAR) 9 1.729 B 3 ML/RS
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research(JAIR) 3 1.056 B 3 AI
Machine Learning 12 1.467 B 3 ML
Neural Computation 12 1.760 B 2 AI
Pattern Recognition 12 2.632 B 2 PR
The Computer Journal 12 0.755 B 3 All
Information and Management(I&M) 8 1.663 C 2 IR
Information Processing Letters(IPL) 24 0.488 C 4 IR/DB
Information Retrieval 6 0.630 C 3 IR
International Journal of Intelligent Systems(IJIS) 12 1.416 C 3 IR/AI
Journal of Computer Information Systems(JCIS) 4 0.495 C 4 IR
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems(JIIS) 6 0.833 C 4 IR/AI
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing(TALLIP) 4 C NLP EI, formerly known as TALIP
Applied Intelligence 6 0.475 C 4 AI
Computational Intelligence 4 1.000 C 2 AI
Computer Speech and Language 4 1.463 C 3 NLP
Decision Support Systems(DSS) 8 2.201 C 2 AI
Expert Systems 5 0.769 C 4 AI
Expert Systems with Applications(ESWA) 18 1.854 C 2 AI
Fuzzy Sets and Systems 24 1.749 C 4 AI/RS
Image and Vision Computing(IVC) 12 1.959 C 3 PR
Intelligent Data Analysis(IDA) 6 0.472 C 4 AI/DM
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition(IJDAR) 4 0.800 C 4 PR/NLP
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence(IJPRAI) 8 0.562 C 4 PR/AI
International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems(IJUFKS) 6 0.886 C 3 AI/GrC
Knowledge-Based Systems(KBS) 12 4.104 C 3 AI
Machine Vision and Applications 6 1.103 C 3 PR
Natural Language Engineering(NLE) 4 0.474 C 4 NLP
Neural Computing & Applications(NCA) 8 1.168 C 4 AI
Neural Processing Letters(NPL) 6 1.240 C 4 AI
Neurocomputing 18 1.634 C 3 AI/PR
Pattern Analysis and Applications(PAA) 4 0.814 C 4 PR
Pattern Recognition Letters(PRL) 16 1.266 C 3 PR
Soft Computing 12 1.124 C 3 AI
Applied Soft Computing 12 2.140 2 AI
International Journal of Fuzzy Systems(IJFS) 4 1.506 3 AI/RS
World Wide Web 6 1.196 4 IR
IEEE Intelligent Systems 6 1.930 2 AI
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 6 2.183 2 DM/IR Replace SMC Part A
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 6 3.236 2 PR/ML Replace SMC Part B
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 6 2.548 2 AI Replace SMC Part C
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics(TACL) 6 NLP A New ACL-Sponsored Journal