CALL FOR PAPERS: COMPUTER GAMES WORKSHOP 2007

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

15-17 June 2007

H.J. van den Herik and J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk

Maastricht, The Netherlands

IBM, SARA Computing and Networking Services and NCF (Foundation of National Computing Facilities) are enabling the organization of the Computer Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007) (15-17 June 2007), the 15^th World Computer-Chess Championship (WCCC) (11-18 June) and the 12^th Computer Olympiad (CO) (11-18 June) to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Location: Turing Hall (Z011) Science Park Amsterdam, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam.

For information on the 15^th WCCC and the 12^th CO, see elsewhere. Below we focus on the CGW2007.

The start of the event will be in conjunction with the official inauguration of the new Dutch National Supercomputer, which will take place on June 13. The mayor of Amsterdam, Dr. Job Cohen, will attend this official meeting. CGW2007 is organized by the Maastricht University under auspices of SIKS (Dutch research school for Information and Knowledge Systems).

The workshop commences on June 15 at 8.30 h and will take place on three consecutive days, each day from 8.30 h till 12.30 h. The workshop aims in the first place at providing an international forum for computer-games researchers presenting new results on ongoing work. Hence, we invite contributors to submit papers on all aspects of research related to computers and games.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: (1) the current state of game-playing programs, (2) new theoretical developments in game-related research, (3) general scientific contributions produced by the study of games, and (4) (adaptive) game AI. Moreover, researchers of topics such as (5) social aspects of computer games, (6) cognitive research of how humans play games, and (7) issues related to networked games are invited to submit their contribution.

Important Dates

Paper Submission May 15, 2007

Acceptance Notification May 21, 2007

Camera-ready Papers June 1, 2007

Paper Submission Requirements

Papers of 8 to 10 pages are preferred. The maximum length is 12 pages. The preferred format for submission is PDF, but Postscript or Word is also acceptable. The paper must be written in the English language. We prefer the Springer Lecture Note Series (LNCS/LNAI) format. Please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS/LNAI Web: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Refereeing Process

Since this announcement is rather late, the usual full refereeing process is impossible to execute. Therefore papers will be refereed in a “light” way by members of the Programme Committee. In practice, this means that papers are accepted if their topic suits the workshop and their overall quality is acceptable. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation during the workshop and will be printed as workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Please submit papers via email to uiterwijk@micc.unimaas.nl, before May 15, 2007. Notice of acceptance of papers will be sent by May 21, 2007 to the principal author. Camera-ready papers are due by June 1, 2007. The best contributions of the workshop will be published in the ICGA Journal. Moreover, depending on the quality, a submission of material for publication in the LNCS series may be considered.

Registration

Registration Fee	Early (on or before June 1)	Late (after June 1)
Non-Students	Euro 50	Euro 70
Students	Euro 25	Euro 35

Admission to the workshop and a copy of the workshop proceedings are included in the workshop registration fee. The workshop is free for a fixed number of SIKS-Ph.D.-students. Applications before June 1 will be honoured in a first come - first serve manner.

Workshop Proceedings

The proceedings will be edited by Professor H.J. van den Herik, dr. J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk, dr. M.H.M. Winands, and M.P.D. Schadd, M.Sc.. Each workshop participant will receive a copy at the start of the workshop.

The Programme Committee

The relatively short period between the final agreement on the organization and the actual dates of the events has inspired us to work with almost the same programme committee as last year (Turin, 2006, see below), except that three co-chairs are supplied by the scientific staff of our sponsors.

Co-chairs: Professor H.J. van den Herik

Dr. N.S. Hekster (IBM)

Dr. A. Osseyran (SARA)

Dr. P. Aerts (NCF)

Yngvi Björnsson Bruno Bouzy Michael Buro Tristan Cazenave Guillaume Chaslot Ken Chen Paolo Ciancarini Rémi Coulom Jeroen Donkers Markus Enzenberger Aviezri Fraenkel Michael Greenspan Reijer Grimbergen Ryan Hayward Shun-Chin Hsu Tsan-sheng Hsu Hiroyuki Iida Graham Kendall Akihiro Kishimoto Hans Kuijf Ulf Lorenz Shaul Markovitch Alberto Martelli Martin Müller Jacques Pitrat Christian Posthoff Matthias Rauterberg Jahn-Takeshi Saito Maarten Schadd Jonathan Schaeffer Pieter Spronck Nathan Sturtevant Jos Uiterwijk Tobias Walsh Jan Willemson Mark Winands I-Chen Wu Shi-Jim Yen

University of Reykjavik, Iceland University of René Descartes, France University of Alberta, Canada University of Paris 8, France Maastricht University, The Netherlands University of North Carolina, USA University of Bologna, Italy Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille Maastricht University, The Netherlands University of Alberta Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Queen’s University, Canada Yamagata University, Japan University of Alberta, Canada Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan Academia Sinica, Taiwan JAIST, Japan Future University-Hakodate, Japan University of Alberta, Canada California State University, USA University of Paderborn, Germany Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel University of Alberta, Canada University of Alberta, Canada Université Pierre et Marie Curie University of The West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands Maastricht University, The Netherlands Maastricht University, The Netherlands University of Alberta, Canada Maastricht University, The Netherlands University of Alberta, Canada Maastricht University, The Netherlands University of New South Wales, Australia University of Tartu, Estonia Maastricht University The Netherlands National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan

For more information on WCCC, CO and CGW 2007:

J.W. Hellemons, email: hellemon@micc.unimaas.nl.

For registration:

Amsterdam 2007