Short description: Classification system for computer science topics
The ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) is a subject classification system for computing devised by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The system is comparable to the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) in scope, aims, and structure, being used by the various ACM journals to organize subjects by area.
History
The system has gone through seven revisions, the first version being published in 1964, and revised versions appearing in 1982, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1998, and the now current version in 2012.
Structure
It is hierarchically structured in four levels. For example, one branch of the hierarchy contains:
- Computing methodologies
- Artificial intelligence
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Ontology engineering
See also
References
- Coulter, Neal (1997), "ACM's computing classification system reflects changing times", Communications of the ACM (New York, NY, USA: ACM) 40 (12): 111–112, doi:10.1145/265563.265579 .
- Coulter, Neal (chair); French, James; Glinert, Ephraim; Horton, Thomas; Mead, Nancy; Ralston, Anthony; Rada, Roy; Rodkin, Craig et al. (January 21, 1998), "Computing Classification System 1998: Current Status and Future Maintenance Report of the CCS Update Committee", Computing Reviews (New York, NY, USA: ACM): 1–5, http://www.acm.org/about/class/ccsup.pdf .
- Mirkin, Boris; Nascimento, Susana; Pereira, Luis Moniz (2008), "Representing a Computer Science Research Organization on the ACM Computing Classification System", in Eklund, Peter; Haemmerlé, Ollivier, Supplementary Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS-2008), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 354, RWTH Aachen University, pp. 57–65, http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-354/p19.pdf .
External links
- dl.acm.org/ccs is the homepage of the system, including links to four complete versions of the system:
- The ACM Computing Research Repository uses a classification scheme that is much coarser than the ACM subject classification, and does not cover all areas of CS, but is intended to better cover active areas of research. In addition, papers in this repository are classified according to the ACM subject classification.
ACM Computing Classification System |
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The 2012 version of the ACM classification has the following main categories. |
| General and reference | Document types • Cross-computing tools and techniques |
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| Hardware | Printed circuit boards • Communication hardware, interfaces and storage • Integrated circuits • Very large scale integration design • Power and energy • Electronic design automation • Hardware validation • Hardware test • Robustness • Emerging technologies |
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| Computer systems organization | Architectures • Embedded and cyber-physical systems • Real-time systems • Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks |
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| Networks | Network architectures • Network protocols • Network components • Network algorithms • Network performance evaluation • Network properties • Network services • Network types |
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| Software and its engineering | Software organization and properties • Software notations and tools • Software creation and management |
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| Theory of computation | Models of computation • Formal languages and automata theory • Computational complexity and cryptography • Logic • Design and analysis of algorithms • Randomness, geometry and discrete structures • Theory and algorithms for application domains • Semantics and reasoning |
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| Mathematics of computing | Discrete mathematics • Probability and statistics • Mathematical software • Information theory • Mathematical analysis • Continuous mathematics |
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| Information systems | Data management systems • Information storage systems • Information systems applications • World Wide Web • Information retrieval |
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| Security and privacy | Cryptography • Formal methods and theory of security • Security services • Intrusion/anomaly detection and malware mitigation • Security in hardware • Systems security • Network security • Database and storage security • Software and application security • Human and societal aspects of security and privacy |
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| Human-centered computing | Human–computer interaction • Interaction design • Collaborative and social computing • Ubiquitous and mobile computing • Visualization • Accessibility |
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| Computing methodologies | Symbolic and algebraic manipulation • Parallel computing methodologies • Artificial intelligence • Machine learning • Modeling and simulation • Computer graphics • Distributed computing methodologies • Concurrent computing methodologies |
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| Applied computing | Electronic commerce • Enterprise computing • Physical sciences and engineering • Life and medical sciences • Law, social and behavioral sciences • Computer forensics • Arts and humanities • Computers in other domains • Operations research • Education • Document management and text processing |
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| Social and professional topics | Professional topics • Computing/technology policy • User characteristics |
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| Proper nouns: people, technologies and companies | Companies • Organizations • People in computing • Technologies |
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