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The Problem of Categorizing Conferences in Computer Science

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Research in computer science (CS) is mainly published in conferences. It makes sense to study conferences to understand CS research. We present and discuss the problem of categorizing CS conferences as well as the challenges in doing so.

This work has been supported by Microsoft Research Asia.

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Effendy, S., Yap, R.H.C. (2016). The Problem of Categorizing Conferences in Computer Science. In: Fuhr, N., Kovács, L., Risse, T., Nejdl, W. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9819. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43997-6_41

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