Proceedings of the ACM

Proceedings of the ACM
Title	Proceedings of the ACM
Discipline	Computer science
Abbreviation	Proc. ACM
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Country	United States
History	1950s–present
Frequency	Conference-based; periodic special issues

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Proceedings of the ACM

Proceedings of the ACM is the primary venue for publishing peer-reviewed papers presented at conferences associated with the Association for Computing Machinery, serving as an archival record for events organized by units such as SIGGRAPH, SIGCOMM, SIGPLAN, SIGMOD, and SIGCHI. The series collects papers from conferences like ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Computer Architecture, and ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, and is distributed through platforms linked to organizations including ACM Digital Library, IEEE Computer Society, Elsevier, and Springer. Authors who publish here often include researchers affiliated with institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Cambridge.

Overview

Proceedings of the ACM compiles conference proceedings from events run by units like Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education and SIGOPS, encompassing topics frequently addressed by researchers at Bell Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Google Research, and Facebook AI Research. The collection spans research areas represented at meetings hosted by venues such as Moscone Center, International Conference Centre (ICC) Barcelona, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, ExCeL London, and Tokyo Big Sight. Works in the series are often cited alongside publications from outlets like Communications of the ACM, Journal of the ACM, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and IEEE Transactions on Computers.

The tradition of publishing ACM conference proceedings dates to collaborations and events involving early computing centers such as Los Alamos National Laboratory and RAND Corporation, with historical intersections at gatherings like the ACM National Conference and symposia influenced by figures from Bell Labs and AT&T Labs Research. Over decades the proceedings evolved through partnerships with publishing entities including ACM Press, Morgan Kaufmann, Wiley, and O’Reilly Media, while being shaped by technological shifts exemplified by projects at Xerox PARC, DEC Systems Research Center, SRI International, and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Milestones in the series coincide with landmark conferences such as ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and ACM KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

Proceedings of the ACM are published in print and digital formats coordinated with platforms like ACM Digital Library and distribution partners including ProQuest, EBSCOhost, and JSTOR. Typical formats mirror standards used by conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ACL, and ICRA, offering camera-ready PDFs, DOI assignment through registrars like CrossRef, and metadata indexed by services such as Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The publication workflow interacts with tools and repositories associated with arXiv, Zenodo, OpenAI, and institutional repositories at Harvard University, Princeton University, and University of Oxford. Proceedings entries often adhere to citation conventions used in outlets like Proceedings of the IEEE and Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

Editorial oversight for proceedings originates from conference program committees chaired by academics from institutions including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Cornell University, University of Toronto, ETH Zurich, and University of Washington. Peer review practices align with models used by ACM Special Interest Groups and mirror rigorous processes found at journals such as Journal of Machine Learning Research, ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and ACM Computing Surveys. Review management systems employed include platforms related to EasyChair, HotCRP, and Microsoft CMT, and ethical standards reference guidelines from bodies like Committee on Publication Ethics, technical councils at National Science Foundation, and professional codes endorsed by ACM Council. Decisions on archiving and open access reflect policies debated with stakeholders such as SPARC, Creative Commons, and funders like National Institutes of Health, European Research Council, and Wellcome Trust.

The Proceedings series preserves records of major conferences including ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGPLAN POPL, ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGCHI, ACM FAccT Conference, ACM KDD, ACM CCS, ACM MobiCom, and ACM SOUPS. Special issues and curated collections have highlighted themes addressed by participants from labs like DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta AI, and IBM Watson, and have included invited papers tied to awards such as the Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, SIGGRAPH Achievement Award, and Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing. Historical keynote collections often feature speakers associated with Donald Knuth, Alan Turing Institute, Barbara Liskov, John McCarthy, Frances E. Allen, and Judea Pearl.

Proceedings of the ACM are widely cited across disciplines and are integral to career milestones at universities and research labs such as Yale University, Columbia University, Imperial College London, Peking University, and Tsinghua University. Citation metrics from aggregators like Scopus, Google Scholar, and Web of Science reflect influence comparable to conference series including NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, SIGGRAPH, and CHI. Reception in industry and policy communities is evidenced by adoption of results in projects at Amazon Web Services, Intel Labs, NVIDIA Research, Apple Machine Learning Research, and regulatory discussion forums involving European Commission and US National Academies.

Category:Association for Computing Machinery journals