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http://dl.acm.org More than 60 years of history. Over 110,000 members in 190 countries worldwide. 37 Special Interest Groups covering the breadth of computer science and IT. Welcome to the ACM. Knowledge That Inspires
ACM was established when computer science was in its infancy. We’ve published the work of the early pioneers whose ideas have had a profound effect on the world around us, shaping the technology that is now part of our everyday lives. Contents Today, ACM continues to bring the discoveries 2 About ACM of those working at the forefront of computer 4 About the ACM Digital Library science to the attention of the world. Through 6 Key Facts About the Digital Library our conferences, journals, magazines, 8 Key Features of the Digital Library newsletters and books, we provide the fuel 10 ACM Conferences 12 ACM Journals and Magazines that inspires tomorrow’s innovations. 16 ACM SIG Newsletters 18 ACM Books 20 ACM Computing Reviews 22 Supporting Authors 24 Supporting the Information Community 26 Purchasing and Accessing
ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY | 1 ABOUT ACM
More than 60 years of history. Over 110,000 members in 190 countries worldwide. 37 Special Interest Groups covering the breadth of computer science and IT. Welcome to ACM.
Facilitating Innovation & Discovery
For over 60 years, ACM has been the place where the best minds in computer science have come to meet, share ideas, publish their work and change the world. In addition to ACM’s world-renowned publishing program, our range of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) convene hundreds of conferences and workshops each year, providing professionals, researchers, and academics alike with opportunities to meet and discuss the latest advances across the spectrum of computer science. ACM is also highly active in furthering the future of computing, helping to shape educational cur- ricula and policy across the world, and awarding — among other prestigious awards and prizes — the sought-after A.M. Turing Award that recognizes the key advances in computing and IT and which comes
with a $1,000,000 prize provided by Google. Historic Images, top-to-bottom: Babbage: Jitze Couperus from Los Altos Hills, California, USA; ENIAC: All of this is made possible by our dedicated and Public Domain; XEROX ALTO: Michael Hicks from Saint Paul, MN, USA; NEC Mainframe computer: passionate members and fellows, many of whom Don DeBold: 1958; PDP-11 at the Computer History Museum: Todd Dailey; IBM Data Processing Machine volunteer their time to serve on our boards, driving Public Domain/NASA; IBM PC Laptop: Ljupco Smokovski; Titan Supercomputer: Oak Ridge National all of our activities and ensuring that ACM truly is the Laboratory; iphone: LOVEgraphic; Virtual Reality voice of the global computing community. Headset: Yanliang Wang
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The ACM Digital Library is the premier source for computing literature. Over 450,000 articles. Over 7,500 conference proceedings. Content from over 89 journals, magazines, and newsletters. All with a curated index containing over 2.6 million citations to the world’s computing literature.
Our Complete Collection
The world’s most renowned computer scientists, Cerf, Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Charles scholars, researchers, and practitioners volunteer Thacker, Marvin Minsky, and other prominent their time to help ACM provide the global com- researchers recognized by the A.M. Turing Award. puter science community with the highest-quali- The next major technological advances will ty resources — from conferences and workshops stem from research that is being undertaken to magazines, newsletters, and many of the field’s today and published within the ACM Digital highest-impact scholarly journals — all through Library, covering fields as diverse as computer subscription to the ACM Digital Library. graphics, networking, gaming, artificial intelli- Each year over 24,000 newly published ar- gence, and beyond. ticles from our journals, magazines and newslet- ters, as well as over 500 annual conference vol- Covering the breadth of computing umes — representing nearly 20% of the world’s ACM’s 37 Special interest Groups (SIGs) represent scholarly computing literature — are added to virtually every major area of computing, from the complete full-text archive of over 450,000 Artificial Intelligence to the Web. Most SIGs ACM articles dating back to 1951. publish regular newsletters with a practical focus, and sponsor a number of conferences and The greatest minds workshops. The ACM Digital Library includes ACM publishes research from the leading names the complete archive of each SIG’s publications, in computing, much of which has proven crucial proceedings from relevant events, and to developing technology in widespread use supporting multimedia materials. today — including key achievements from Vint
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Our complete collection of journals, conference proceedings, magazines and newsletters also includes an integrated bibliography covering the entire field.
A Cutting Edge Platform
Sophisticated Searching Easy Citation Export Powerful search tools and sophisticated interlink- One-click export of citations into a variety of for- ing of records offer users unparalleled access and mats such as BibTeX, EndNotes and ACM Ref. insight into emerging trends. Computing’s Most Comprehensive Variety of Authentication Options Bibliographic Index Access authenticated by IP address, Shibboleth, The Guide to Computing Literature is included in OpenAthens, Domain Name, and Remote Access the ACM Digital Library — a continually updated via ACM Web Account. index containing over 2.6 million publication records from over 5,000 publishers worldwide. Remote Access Now offering the ability to access remotely by Author and Article Bibliometrics utilizing an ACM Web Account tethered to an Detailed metrics on downloads and citations are institution’s IP authentication system. available for authors and articles. Mobile Access Institutional Profile Pages Smartphone and tablet apps allow users to Publication data aggregated at the institutional search, browse, save, read and share content from level to provide a single snapshot of an entire the ACM Digital Library, wherever and whenever institution’s publication history in the field of suits them. computing, including the combined usage and citation statistics for all authors affiliated with Personalization that institution. Users can build personalized views of ACM Digital Library content, including binders for Multimedia quicker access to the information they need and A variety of multimedia file types are included in the ability to integrate conference schedules the ACM Digital Library relating to computer graph- seamlessly with calendars. ics, animation, and entertainment computing.
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More than any other field, conferences are a vital publication venue in computing — this is where the most cutting edge research is presented and discussed.
Reports From the Front-Line
ACM and its Special Interest Groups convene • Design Automation Conference more than 170 events each year, ranging in size • The ACM SIGKDD Conference on and scope from the world-renowned KDD and Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining SIGGRAPH conferences to focused symposia serv- • The International Conference ing niche research communities. on Management of Data Proceedings from each of these events • The ACM International Conference are included in the ACM Digital Library, along on Multimedia with more than 8,600 supplementary files — • International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research representing a unique wealth of knowledge and Development in Information Retrieval through the ACM Digital Library. • The International Conference on Software Engineering A selection of key ACM SIG events: • The ACM Symposium on • The International Conference and Exhibition on Operating Systems Principles Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques • The International Conference More information about ACM on Supercomputing Conference Proceedings can be found • The ACM Conference on Human at dl.acm.org/events.cfm Factors in Computing Systems
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Our Journal Editors are thought leaders in their fields, and our emphasis on rapid publication ensures minimal delay in communication of exciting new ideas and discoveries.
Leading Research, News and Opinion
Communications of the ACM Computing Surveys Graphics (TOG) Journal of the ACM cacm.acm.org surveys.acm.org tog.acm.org jacm.acm.org DL Citation Count: 182,234 • Impact Factor: 3.301 DL Citation Count: 47,917 • Impact Factor: 5.243 DL Citation Count: 78,690 • Impact Factor: 4.218 DL Citation Count: 85,594 • Impact Factor: 1.803
#1 by Citations in CS Software Engineering #2 by Impact Factor in CS Theory & Methods #1 by Impact Factor in CS Software Engineering #5 by Citations in CS Hardware & Architecture #2 by Impact Factor in CS Software Engineering #2 by Citations in CS Software Engineering #5 by Citations in CS Software Engineering Computing Surveys, a comprehensive collection #2 by Citations in CS Hardware & Architecture #6 by Citations in CS Theory & Methods of survey papers and symposia, provides a guided Leading researchers discuss new developments #3 by Citations in CS Theory & Methods tour of such computing disciplines as multimedia, in computer-aided design, image generation, Journal of the ACM serves as an international Communications of the ACM is the leading print artificial intelligence, software engineering, and rendering, modeling, and more in TOG. venue for careful presentation of theoretical re- and online magazine for the computing and many more. search in core computing areas, such as: complex information technology fields. Industry leaders algorithms, computer architecture, system model- use Communications as a platform to present ing, database theory, and data structures. and debate various technology implications, public policies, engineering challenges, and market trends.
53 Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journals 8 Technology Magazines
Citation And Impact Journal Rankings Statistics 2015 Journal Citation Reports / Thomas Reuters DL Citation counts as of February 2017.
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ACM publishes high-quality content in virtually every area of computing: from the practical to the theoretical, and from established to emerging fields.
Broad Coverage of Topics
ACM Magazines Journals and Transactions • Computational Logic Affiliated publications • Communications of the ACM • Journal of the ACM • Computer Systems In addition to resources published by the ACM • Computers in Entertainment • Journal of Data and Information Quality • Computational Theory and its Special Interest Groups, the ACM Digital Li- • eLearn • Journal of Experimental Algorithmics • Design Automation of Electronic Systems brary incorporates full text access to a curated list • Inroads • Journal on Emerging Technologies • Database Systems of high quality journals published by third parties. • Interactions in Computing Systems • Graphics Please note that archival and perpetual access • acmqueue • Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage • Information Systems rights do not apply to Affiliated Publications. • Ubiquity • Autonomous and Adaptive Systems • Internet Technology • Computational Linguistics • XRDS: The ACM Magazine for Students • Accessible Computing • Modeling and Computer Simulations • Evolutionary Computation • Architecture and Code Optimization • Multimedia Computing and Communications • International Journal of Network Management • Algorithms • Modeling and Performance Evaluation • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges • Asian Language and Low-Resource of Computing Systems • The Journal of Machine Learning Research Information Processing • Mathematical Software • Journal of Usability Studies • Applied Perception • Parallel Computing • Linux Journal • Cyber-Physical Systems • Programming Languages and Systems • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing • Economics and Computation • Storage • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment • Embedded Computing Systems • Software Engineering and Methodology • The VLDB Journal — International • Interactive Intelligent Systems • Sensor Networks Journal On Very Large Databases • Information and System Security • Reconfigurable Technology and Systems • Intelligent Systems and Technology • Spatial Algorithms and Systems • Knowledge Discovery from Data • The Web • Management Information Systems More information about • Computing Education these ACM titles can be found at • Computer-Human Interaction acm.org/publications/journals
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In addition to conference proceedings and journals publishing the latest research in their fields, many ACM Special Interest Groups publish regular technical newsletters.
Topical Highlights
The following list highlights some of the subjects • Hypertext, Hypermedia and Web covered in these publications: • Information Retrieval • Accessibility and Computing • Information Technology Education • Ada Programming Language • Knowledge Discovery in Data • Algorithms and Computational Theory • Management Information Systems • Applied Computing • Management of Data • Artificial Intelligence • Measurement and Evaluation • Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, • Microarchitecture and Biomedical Informatics • Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing • Computer Architecture • Multimedia Systems • Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques • Operating Systems • Computer-Human Interaction • Programming Languages • Computer Science Education • Security, Audit and Control • Computers and Society • Simulation and Modeling • Data Communication • Software Engineering • Design Automation • Spatial Information • Design of Communication • Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation • Electronic Commerce • University and College Computing Services • Evolutionary Computation More information about ACM SIG • Fortran Forum Newsletter Newsletters can be found at acm.org/sigs • Genetic and Embedded Systems • High Performance Computing
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ACM Books is an all new series of high quality, advanced level books for the computer science community. Editor in Chief: M. Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo
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Books in the series cover the full spectrum of com- puter science, with an initial focus on four types of texts: graduate level textbooks, research mono- graphs, practitioner texts, and books focusing on the history and social impact of computing. ACM Books will be available to institutions as Collections. The one-time purchase of each Collection provides perpetual access via the ACM Digital Library to all titles within the Collection. Subject areas currently include the following • Multimedia systems fields of research: • Parallel computing • Algorithms & complexity • Programming languages • Bioinformatics • Security & privacy • Cloud computing • Social computing • Computer graphics • Software engineering • Computer networks • Web technology & science • Data management For more information, please visit • History of computing books.acm.org • Human-centered computing • Information retrieval & digital libraries • Machine learning & data mining • Mobile computing
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The largest and most comprehensive database of reviews covering computing literature is an essential companion product to the ACM Digital Library.
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The ACM Computing Reviews database provides • Approximately 35,000 reviews covering practitioners, researchers, educators, and students books, journal articles, and conference with an unparalleled resource, creating a unique proceedings from different publishers and roadmap to the vast ocean of scholarly and practi- hundreds of thousands of publications cal information in one of the fastest moving fields • Commentary from authors and of knowledge today. reviewers of reviewed materials Every year, over 8,000 books, 2,500 disserta- • Powerful search tools tions, 20,000 journal articles from over 750 journal • Searchable archives dating back to 1985 titles and over 30,000 conference papers from • New reviews published on site daily over 500 conferences are published in the field of • Alerting profiles computing. This does not include the thousands of • RSS feeds of partial reviews master’s theses, technical reports, technical manu- • Fully indexed and integrated with the ACM als, working papers, blog entries, presentations, or Digital Library full text database and Guide to other materials published each year. Filtering this Computing Literature bibliographic database vast quantity of information is difficult and there • Affordable pricing are very few high quality resources available to • Simplified IP authentication for help individuals to do this well. institutional subscribers Computing Reviews contains the following: • Edited by a panel of leading experts • Most comprehensive coverage of For more information, please visit the computing literature computingreviews.com • Expert reviews from over 1,000 subject matters
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Today’s research is the foundation that tomorrow’s advances will be based on, and ACM is committed to helping authors ensure their work is discoverable by researchers the world over.
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