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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›Software maintenance and evolution
area
5,686 papers · 10,172 experts
Sub-topics
99 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
refactoring 364software ecosystems 329program comprehension 296software reuse 240software evolution 205code review 141code clone detection 131log analysis 125software documentation 92code search 87reverse engineering 86software process improvement 86software configuration management 83technical debt 81change impact analysis 79code reuse 67software dependencies 60software inspection 54traceability 52software reengineering 51software quality assurance 41software configuration 34bug triage 32build systems 32dynamic software updating 32software maintenance 32software modularity 32code smell 31feature location 31software modularization 28code change analysis 27code recommendation 26software merging 23software supply chain 23software updates 23code readability 21program differencing 21code clone 19API usage 16release planning 15software defects 15change management 14software portability 14incident management 13concept location 12logging 12software libraries 12software sustainability 12software integration 11forking 10issue tracking 10software complexity 10software compatibility 9devops 8release engineering 8software quality management 8software variability 7code clone management 6system reliability 5issue management 4software performance engineering 4recommendation system for software engineering 3
Show 37 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
software licensing 9anti-pattern detection 8concept analysis 6knowledge transfer 6performance prediction 6performance regression 6systematic editing 6anti-patterns 5API mapping 5artifact consistency 5build management 5coding conventions 5performance diagnosis 5process model analysis 5software cost reduction 5software internationalization 5software monitoring 5software trustworthiness 5AIOps 4breaking change detection 4fault tree analysis 4incremental consistency checking 4runtime evolution 4spreadsheet quality 4vulnerability management 4autonomic computing 3change request localization 3change tasks 3code search and recommendation 3integrated development environment support 3machine learning-enabled software systems 3programming style 3software adaptability 3software stability 3system evolution 3third-party components 3version comparison 3
Experts on Software maintenance and evolution
10,172 · 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