Editing CommunityData:Conferences and Journals (section)

= Conferences =

== Non-archival ==

Non-archival means that submissions to a conference are not "published". In other words, you are free to submit the same or nearly the same research to another venue. Some folks look down on presenting research at multiple conferences but others think it's great to get feedback from different audiences.

In general, it's easier to get accepted to a non-archival conference. In addition, they basically never have an R+R requirement—they will pass on reviewer feedback, but you aren't required to do anything with it.

=== ICA (International Communication Association) ===

ICA is one of the two big communication conferences, and is probably the best conference for computational communication work. ICA is organized in divisions, which act semi-autonomously, and you submit papers to a division rather than to the conference. The divisions most aligned with CDSC research are probably Computational Methods, Information Systems, Communication and Technology (CAT), and Organizational Communication.


Deadline: Early November

Conference: Late May

=== NCA (National Communication Association) ===

NCA is the other big communication conference. It's in the US, in November. Like ICA, it's composed of divisions, with their own calls for papers. CDSC members have not been as active at NCA, but some divisions that overlap are Communication and the Future, Group Communication, Human Communication and Technology, and Organizational Communication.

Deadline: March

Conference: November

=== IC2S2 (International Conference of Computational Social Science) ===

IC2S2 is a multidisciplinary computational social science conference. They only require 2 page abstracts, which is nice. It's been growing quickly but has historically been a smallish conference.

Deadline: February

Conference: July

== Archival Conferences ==

=== CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) ===

CSCW is probably the conference where interests of CDSC members are nearest to the median interests of the conference. There are lots of folks interested in how people cooperate and communicate via digital tools and spaces, and how social and technical design influence their ability to cooperate and communicate.

Papers submitted to CSCW are published in the proceedings, and are archival. The submission schedule seems like it changes constantly, but for now (2023), it's a half-yearly cycle that looks like this:


* Submit January 15 / July 15
* Minor revisions by April 15 / October 15
* Major revisions by October 15 / April 15
* Conference in October (must be accepted by April)

https://cscw.acm.org/2023/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cscw23_timeline-1024x576.png

Figure from https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/submit-papers/

=== CHI (Human Factors in Computing Systems) ===

CHI is another HCI conference, but much broader than CSCW—it includes people working on hardware, etc. It's also much larger. It has a once-a-year cycle with a much shorter revision window. Papers are submitted in September, after reviews are received authors have ~5 weeks for a revision.

Deadline: mid-September

Conference: Late April or early May

=== CI (Collective Intelligence) ===

CI is a multidisciplinary conference focused on group decision making, game theory, simulations, etc. It used to be non-archival, but at least for 2023 it's combined with HCOMP and proceedings will be published.

Deadline: June

Conference: November

=== ICWSM (The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media) ===

Deadline: January 15, May 15, September 15

Conference: June