In my field of automated planning, almost all research is published at conferences. We also publish in journals, but this is rather rare. They are usually comprehensive write-ups of several conference papers, plus a small amount of novelties.

Conferences

Here, I list the "most fitting" conferences where I or my PhD students either usually publish, or could publish. That is, all those conferences focus on planning or more generally symbolic AI, including other forms of combinatorial optimization like SAT solving, ILPs, and of course many more (in contrast to AI conferences that focus on Machine Learning or robotics, for example, which my group is not working on).

The conferences are ordered by CORE rank, a ranking system by the CORE organization. It happens to be Australian, but that's pure coincidence, as it's the standard one used world-wide. According to its webpage,

  • A*: top 7.64% of all ranked conferences
  • A: top 14.9%
  • B: top 28.15%
  • C: top 46.11%

Target Conferences for mostly Symbolic AI

A* conferences

  • AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
  • AAMAS (International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems)
  • ICAPS (International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling)
  • IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • KR (International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning)
  • ACL (Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics)

A conferences

  • CCC (Computational Complexity Conference)
  • CP (International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming)
  • ECAI (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • ICLP (International Conference on Logic Programming)
  • JELIA (European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence)
  • UAI (Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence)

B conferences

  • AJCAI (Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
    Note that the official rank is "Australasian B", which might be slightly lower than B.
  • CPAIOR (International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research)
  • ICAART (International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence)
  • ICTAI (International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence)
  • PRICAI (Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • SoCS (Symposium on Combinatorial Search)
    Officially, this conference is (sadly) only ranked B, but it's considered A by most people in our community
  • KES (International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems)

C (or unranked, but decent) conferences

I usually don't publish in here, and so it's usually not state-of-the-art cutting-edge research -- yet still useful results.

  • AIAI (Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence), ranked: C
  • FLAIRS (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference), ranked: National USA
  • KI (German Conference on Artificial Intelligence), not ranked

Target Conferences for LLM-related work

Since I've very recently started to use LLMs in my research (specifically for model creation or model repair), I list conferences where that work might be submitted to also. I list them separately since these conferences usually have a completely different focus from the ones listed above (yet, LLM-related work can also be published at the above conferences).

A* conferences

  • ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning)
  • NeurIPS (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems)

B conferences

  • COLING (International Conference on Computational Linguistics)

Journals

The list below is likely severely limited, as I barely publish in journals. Thus, if you know if any that should be listed here as well, please let know.

Further, note that CORE stopped ranking journals in February 2022, and so the below are not clustered according to this ranking. Instead, we use SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), which, just like CORE, provides four ranks. But rather than A*/A/B/C, which ranks only until top 50% (and can hence be a bit more fine-grained), it ranks the entire spectrum and differentiates this into quartiles, Q1--Q4, within each subject category:

  • Q1: top 25%
  • Q2: between top 25% and 50%
  • Q3: between top 50% and 75%
  • Q4: lowest 25%

Beyond this rough categorization, SJR lists a SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) score, reflecting the average prestige per article, weighted by the reputation of the citing journals. The numbers listed below are from 2024.

Target Journals for mostly Symbolic AI or Computer Science

Q1 Journals

  • ACM Computing Surveys, score 5.797
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, score: 3.254
  • Artificial Intelligence Review, score 3.010
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, score 2.570
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM), score 2.246
  • Knowledge-Based Systems, score 1.934
  • Expert Systems with Applications, score 1.854
  • Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), score 1.836
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, score 1.652
  • IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, score 1.431
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), score 1.372
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, score 1.362
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences, score 1.033
  • Intelligent Systems with Applications, score 0.969
  • Scientific Reports, score 0.874

Q2 Journals

  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, score 0.738
  • Knowledge Engineering Review, score 0.688
  • AI Magazine, score 0.634
  • Theoretical Computer Science, score 0.494

Q3 Journals

  • KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, score 0.522
  • Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, score 0.419
  • Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, score 0.410
  • AI Communications, score 0.372
  • International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, score 0.296

Target Journals for Human/Computer Interaction

Due to my work on assistance systems (see my dissertation or my work with Robert Bosch GmbH), I am also interested in venues on HCI, often integrating AI technology.

Q1 Journals

  • International Journal of Human Computer Studies, score 1.394
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, score 1.175

Q2 Journals

  • Cognitive Systems Research, score 0.604