LiCS

Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LiCS)

Editions listed13 Covered2015–2027 Rank nowCORE A* ProceedingsOpen access since 2026 Chairs & speakers5 of 10 women, 3 expected

Editions

Year	Ed.	Held	Where	Paper deadline	Accepted	Rate
2027 open	42	21–24 Jun 2027	Montréal 🇨🇦	21 Jan firm	—	—
2026	41	20–23 Jul 2026	Lisbon 🇵🇹	22 Jan firm	82 / 293	28%
2025	40	23–26 Jun 2025	Singapore 🇸🇬	23 Jan firm	66 / 215	31%
2024	39	8–12 Jul 2024	Tallinn 🇪🇪	26 Jan firm	72 / 236	31%
2023	38	26–29 Jun 2023	Boston 🇺🇸	23 Jan firm	63 / 192	33%
2022	37	2–5 Aug 2022	Haifa 🇮🇱	21 Jan firm	—	—
2021	36	29 Jun – 2 Jul 2021	Online	25 Jan firm	—	—
2020	35	8–12 Jul 2020	Online	10 Jan firm	—	—
2019	34	24–27 Jun 2019	Vancouver 🇨🇦	11 Jan firm	—	—
2018	33	9–12 Jul 2018	Oxford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	31 Jan firm	—	—
2017	32	20–23 Jun 2017	Reykjavík 🇮🇸	9 Jan firm	89 / 224	40%
2016	31	5–8 Jul 2016	New York City 🇺🇸	18 Jan firm	—	—
2015	30	6–10 Jul 2015	Kyōto 🇯🇵	19 Jan firm	—	—

A missing year does not mean the conference did not meet: coverage before 2015 has not been verified.

Acceptance rate over time

0%30%60%

2026 28% 82/293
2025 31% 66/215
2024 31% 72/236
2023 33% 63/192
2017 40% 89/224

Scale runs to 60%; the mid-line marks 30%. No figure published for 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2027.

Submissions

2026 293
2025 215
2024 236
2023 192
2017 224

Scaled to this conference's own busiest year (293), so the shape is comparable across its editions but not between conferences.

Who led each edition

Chairs and invited speakers

all 2 50% of 10
2027 2 of 6
2026 3 of 4

Across 2 editions, 5 of 10 chairs and invited speakers were women or of another gender — 50%. At this site's own rate of 29%, 3 would be the expectation.

Only editions with counted people appear: an edition recorded as mixed and nothing more has no arithmetic behind it. The total counts people, not years, so an edition with eight chairs weighs more than one with two. The committee is reported beside the platform, never added to it. The rate this is set against, 29%, is pooled from 362 chairs and invited speakers across 81 editions on this site — an observation about the field as recorded here, not a target.

How it has reviewed and published

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Practice

Proceedings

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Anonymity

A blank cell means nobody has checked that year, not that the answer is no. Licences are read as recorded on the edition, never inherited from the publisher.

Where it has met

Loads tiles from OpenStreetMap, which will see your IP address.

11 cities. 20152027

11 cities, 9 countries, 3 continents. Met online 2 times.

CORE rank over time

A* 2008–2009 A 2010–2012 A* 2013–

Ranked since the first CORE round.

Timing

Closes: between 21 Jan and 26 Jan, over the last 6 editions.
Decision: 77 days after the deadline (59–91 over 13 editions)
Then: 90 days to the conference (67–110)

Deadline habits

Extended: 0 of 13 editions (13 confirmed firm)

An edition counts as firm only when it was checked; a deadline with no earlier date recorded is counted as not known, not as firm.

Elsewhere

DBLP: lics ↗
CORE: portal entry 748 ↗
Wikipedia: article ↗
Calendar: Subscribe to LiCS
Data: All editions as JSON

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Data entirely hand-typed, one call for papers at a time. There is no scraper behind any of this: I read the call for papers and/or the Web sites and type the dates in, in the gaps between other work, and with the hope it is useful to others. Organisers might then move deadlines without telling anyone, which may lead to inconsistencies. So, treat this small page as a well-meaning notebook rather than an authority 🤓