Thirty Years of SIROCCO A Data and Graph Mining Comparative Analysis of Its Temporal Evolution

In this paper, we study the temporal evolution of SIROCCO and of other sixteen theoretical computer science conferences. Our goal is to try to understand the evolution of these conferences and to answer several different research questions, related to the number of authors, number of papers, size of collaborations, sex inclusion, research topics, network characteristics, and author centrality. The tentative answer to these questions is given by performing a comparative analysis between the entire set of conferences. Even though the paper focuses on SIROCCO and on a specific set of theoretical computer science conferences, the software used to perform our analysis can be easily used to perform similar analysis in the case of conferences in different computer science research areas.