Demo Data from VLDB 2026 / recruitment
Reviewers in the wild
The CS expert database: 1,777,551 experts · 2,837,695 papers in CCF A–C and ICORE A*–C venues · 10 venue-derived domains · snapshot 2026-09-22.
Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
419,855 active · 726,626 total · 856,312 papers
NeurIPS · AAAI · ESWA · CVPR · ICML · EAAI
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games
220,290 active · 419,218 total · 473,177 papers
AAAI · ICASSP · MTA · CVPR · INTERSPEECH · ICCV
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing
306,612 active · 637,688 total · 436,260 papers
TGARS · IGARSS · TITS · TII · CogSci · Bioinformatics
Systems, architecture and hardware
148,087 active · 345,638 total · 325,499 papers
IROS · ICRA · VTC · ISCAS · TJSC · IECON
Computer networks
105,468 active · 214,616 total · 249,845 papers
IOT · ICC · GLOBECOM · TWC · TCOM · TMC
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval
134,049 active · 269,256 total · 249,104 papers
IEEE BigData · CIKM · SIGKDD · TKDE · AEI · SIGIR
Theory of computation
38,447 active · 105,648 total · 202,645 papers
TIT · TCS · DAM · SODA · STOC · ICALP
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
114,847 active · 268,055 total · 198,672 papers
CHI · SMC · TSMC · SIGCSE · PACMHCI · IJHCI
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages
76,605 active · 178,952 total · 173,661 papers
DATE · COMPSAC · CoDIT · PACM PL · TSC · JSS
Security and privacy
57,527 active · 109,981 total · 102,399 papers
TIFS · TDSC · USENIX Security · TrustCom · CCS · JISA
Experts by expertise
The expertise taxonomy: 90,661 topics extracted from 634,694 papers of 537,692 experts, organised under the ten CCF categories and 168 areas. Pick a category, then narrow down to a topic; every level lists its experts by weight.
Artificial intelligence
231,922 experts · 238,182 papers
33 areas · 23,066 topics
Theoretical computer science
84,688 experts · 103,442 papers
15 areas · 12,358 topics
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
119,266 experts · 88,175 papers
18 areas · 10,819 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia
99,217 experts · 74,150 papers
13 areas · 7,821 topics
Computer networks
79,947 experts · 72,281 papers
18 areas · 9,664 topics
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
83,822 experts · 68,869 papers
17 areas · 7,059 topics
Network and information security
67,706 experts · 53,290 papers
15 areas · 5,550 topics
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
111,858 experts · 46,353 papers
9 areas · 5,108 topics
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
77,670 experts · 43,820 papers
16 areas · 4,757 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
53,122 experts · 40,802 papers
14 areas · 4,459 topics
Artificial intelligence›Knowledge, reasoning and agents›Knowledge representation and reasoning
area
14,492 papers · 24,046 experts
Sub-topics
179 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
ontology 685commonsense reasoning 620nonmonotonic reasoning 486causal reasoning 442knowledge graph 431description logic 398logic-based reasoning 373argumentation 335temporal reasoning 324belief revision 253expert systems 246qualitative reasoning 245neuro-symbolic reasoning 202spatial reasoning 200probabilistic reasoning 176logic programming 172knowledge acquisition 164case-based reasoning 160knowledge-based systems 138abductive reasoning 121analogical reasoning 118uncertainty reasoning 118concept learning 114statistical relational learning 105rule learning 104explanation generation 103knowledge graph reasoning 99ontology-based query answering 97semantic representation 95knowledge base 88reasoning about action and change 88theory of mind 81cognitive modeling 70epistemic reasoning 66relational reasoning 64belief change 63relational learning 55automated reasoning 54diagnosis 51open-world learning 43inconsistency handling 32knowledge compilation 27symbolic regression 27belief representation 26model-based reasoning 26causality 25concept formation 24query answering 24knowledge engineering 22abstract reasoning 21normative reasoning 20knowledge level analysis 19decision theory 18neural-symbolic integration 18structured reasoning 18consistency checking 17information fusion 17semantic reasoning 17user modeling 17action and change 16automated reasoning and model checking 16logic in computer science 16hybrid reasoning 14logic rules 14scientific discovery 14knowledge incorporation 12knowledge discovery 11neuro-symbolic AI 11social reasoning 11cognitive robotics 9pattern matching 9background knowledge 7domain knowledge 7model representation 7pragmatics 7constraint-based grammar 6knowledge structures 6uncertainty management 6knowledge management 5context-based reasoning 3representation language 3
Show 98 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
category learning 9knowledge representation systems 9logical constraints 9knowledge localization 8structural inference 8construction grammar 7intelligent tutoring systems 7modularity 7rationality 7reason maintenance 7linguistic structure 6model refinement 6reasoning about knowledge and belief 6structured data understanding 6temporal knowledge 6abstraction and reasoning 5automated modeling 5constraint specification 5external knowledge 5formal models 5hierarchical structure learning 5measurement theory 5memory retrieval 5semantic memory 5similarity-based reasoning 5situated cognition 5symbolic computation 5symbolic model learning 5attribute grammar 4belief modeling 4clinical reasoning 4cognitive development 4compiled knowledge 4conceptual knowledge 4consciousness 4graph traversal 4integrity constraints 4interference 4iterative reasoning 4knowledge consistency 4knowledge-aware reasoning 4linguistic theory 4marker-passing 4matching 4neural reasoning 4object query 4parametric knowledge 4problem reformulation 4process models 4semantic constraints 4structured knowledge 4syntactic knowledge 4syntax acquisition 4unification 4active reasoning 3agent models 3attribute reduction 3belief maintenance 3belief representation and revision 3computational neuroscience models 3concept similarity 3conceptual analysis 3conceptualization 3connectionist inference 3consistency maintenance 3constraint discovery 3context extraction 3context-aware reasoning 3domain-specific knowledge 3incomplete theory 3independence 3knowledge level 3knowledge recall 3knowledge representation learning 3knowledge-intensive learning 3linguistic knowledge 3metalinguistic reasoning 3model retrieval 3multi-view reasoning 3multimodal knowledge 3narrative processing 3noisy sensors and effectors 3process knowledge 3program-guided reasoning 3propositional attitudes 3rational agency 3reasoning structure 3relational domains 3relational structure 3reporting bias 3rete algorithm 3rule discovery 3semantic association 3semantic evaluation 3semantic frameworks 3structured data 3system modeling 3variable binding 3
Experts on Knowledge representation and reasoning
24,046 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics