ACM Computing Classification System

The ACM Computing Classification System is a subject classification system for computer science devised by the Association for Computing Machinery. The system has gone through six revisions, the first version being published in 1964, and revised versions appearing in 1982, 1983, 1987, 1991, and the now current version in 1998.

The system is comparable to the Mathematics Subject Classification in scope, aims and structure, being used by the various ACM journals to organise subjects by area, and being hierarchically structured as a series of four increasingly finely grained classifications with longer description codes.

External links

• ACM Computing Classification System is the homepage of the system, including links to three complete versions of the system, for 1964 [1], 1991 [2], and the current 1998 version [3]