Most Competitive Conferences

Conferences ranked by overall acceptance rate (lower = more selective), based on submitted/accepted paper counts.

CCF: Conference Rank (A, B, C) from China Computer Federation (2026)
ICORE: Conference Rank (A*, A, B, C) from Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (2026)

Rank Systems

CCF: Conference Rank (A, B, C) from China Computer Federation (2026)
ICORE: Conference Rank (A*, A, B, C) from Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (2026)

Showing 1-50 of 399 items.

#	CCF	ICORE	Short	Full Name	Acceptance Rate	Total Submitted	Years
1	A	A*	MobiCom	International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking	12.6%	4390	20
2	C	C	NPC	International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing	13.6%	338	1
3	B	A*	PerCom	International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications	13.7%	2204	11
4	A		Ubicomp	ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing	14.1%	757	4
5	B	A*	ICDM	International Conference on Data Mining	14.2%	12250	17
6	B	A	SDM	SIAM International Conference on Data Mining	14.3%	1052	4
7	A	A*	S&P	IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy	14.5%	9018	38
8			SEC	International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection	15%	1039	7
9	B	B	MobiHoc	International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing	15.5%	2563	14
10	A	A*	ICSE	International Conference on Software Engineering	15.6%	5778	18
11	B	A	ICDCS	International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems	15.7%	8135	17
12	B	A*	SIGMETRICS	International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems	15.9%	5711	31
13	A	A*	OSDI	USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation	15.9%	1230	8
14	A	A*	SIGCOMM	Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication	16%	6540	33
15	B	A	ASIACRYPT	International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security	16.1%	2274	9
16	A	A*	KDD	ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining	16.2%	20210	24
17	A	A*	The Web Conference	The ACM Web Conference	16.4%	22611	30
18	A	A*	USENIX Security	USENIX Security Symposium	16.7%	7597	21
19	B	A	WSDM	International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining	16.8%	4904	10
20	B		SenSys	ACM/IEEE Conference on Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems	17.3%	1362	10
21		C	ECCB	European Conference on Computational Biology	17.4%	1391	5
22	B	A	ISMB	International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology	17.4%	1391	5
23	B	A	Mobisys	International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services	17.5%	1201	8
24	A	A	HPDC	International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing	17.5%	1614	13
25	B	A	CAiSE	International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering	17.9%	1314	6
26	A	A*	NDSS	Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium	18%	4800	23
27	B	A	ECOOP	European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming	18%	2310	18
28	A	A	EuroSys	European Conference on Computer Systems	18.2%	1317	9
29	C	B	ACNS	International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security	18.2%	2919	16
30	A	A*	CCS	ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security	18.3%	10597	28
31	A	A*	SOSP	ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles	18.3%	1090	9
32	A	A*	ICDE	International Conference on Data Engineering	18.5%	659	1
33	B	A*	IJCAI	International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence	18.6%	55352	21
34			ICAC	International Conference on Autonomic Computing	18.7%	300	2
35	A	A*	POPL	ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages	18.7%	2300	14
36	B	B	RECOMB	International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology	18.8%	2696	15
37			ESEC	European Software Engineering Conference	18.9%	2497	15
38	B	A	CoNEXT	International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies	19%	2725	16
39	B	A	Middleware	International Middleware Conference	19.1%	1428	12
40	A	A*	Eurocrypt	International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques	19.2%	1634	9
41	B	A	RecSys	ACM Conference on Recommender Systems	19.2%	1024	6
42	B		IPSN	International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks	19.4%	1837	15
43			ICEIS	International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems	19.4%	459	1
44		A	USENIX ATC	USENIX Annual Technical Conference	19.6%	2198	16
45	A		NSDI	USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation	19.7%	1292	9
46	B	B	ICNP	International Conference on Network Protocols	19.9%	3538	20
47	A	A*	INFOCOM	International Conference on Computer Communications	20%	29287	24
48		B	EWSN	International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks	20.2%	1103	11
49	A	A*	FSE	ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering	20.3%	2689	18
50	B		BIBM	International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine	20.4%	4852	5