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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
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages›Requirements engineering and software design
area
4,396 papers · 7,709 experts
Sub-topics
87 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
software architecture 999software design 741model-driven engineering 609formal specification 231software product lines 172requirements engineering 166software process 121requirements specification 99requirements elicitation 80software design methodology 70requirements analysis 69design patterns 56requirements traceability 51requirements validation 32goal-oriented requirements engineering 29modularity 28conceptual modeling 27business process modeling 26requirements modeling 25separation of concerns 25specification 23database design 21non-functional requirements 19user-centered design 17object-oriented development 14knowledge-based design 13risk management 13software design representation 13software modeling 13use case modeling 13component-based software 11computer-aided software engineering 11design rationale 11object-oriented analysis and design 11reactive systems 10software design tools 10software design quality 9inconsistency management 8safety requirements 8software design principles 7knowledge management 6requirements management 6design process 5requirements quality 5software design notation 4application frameworks 3design cognition 3distributed system design 3interface design 3software design evaluation 3
Show 37 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
scenario-based synthesis 9web engineering 8computer-aided design 7requirements definition 7safety-critical systems 6use cases 6assurance case 5constraint satisfaction 5graph grammar 5programming-in-the-large 5value-based software engineering 5business rules 4data validation 4design automation 4developer support tools 4end-user software engineering 4formal transformation 4information system design 4multi-objective optimization 4product data management 4requirements engineering process 4UML model verification 4visual notation design 4constructive program development 3design knowledge 3end-user development 3framework documentation 3hazard analysis 3interactive system design 3model consistency 3non-functional property analysis 3persona 3projectional editing 3requirements verification 3software engineering for high performance computing 3software notation design 3stakeholder collaboration 3
Experts on Requirements engineering and software design
7,709 · 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