From: Hitoshi Matsubara ETL GO JP> Date: 29 apr 1997 Subject: GPW'97 Fourth Game Programming Workshop in Japan (GPW'97): Call for Papers The purpose of this workshop is to promote computer game (including Shogi, Go, chess, Othello, checker, bridge etc.) -playing research. Papers on any mind games are welcome. Title: Fourth Game Programming Workshop in Japan (GPW'97) Sponsorship: Computer Shogi Association Co-sponsorship: Computer Go Forum Date: October 9-11, 1997 Place $@!' (J Hakone Seminar House, Kanagawa, JAPAN (Accomodation: Japanese-style room) Official languages: Japanese/English (no interpretation) Expected number of participants: 80 people Registration fee $@!' (J 30,000 yen (Student 15,000 yen) Process: Submitted papers will be reviewed by the programming committee. Authors must submit 3 printed copies of their extended abstract (about 2000 characters in Japanese or about 500 words in English) to the following address. For those who can submit electronically, please submit materials in plain, unformatted text to gpw etl go jp. The length of the final(camera-ready) papers must be at most 10 pages on A4 or 8 1/2'' x 11'' size. When your paper is accepted, at least one author of the paper has to attend the workshop and present your paper. If your presentation is canceled, your paper is not included in the proceedings. Schedule: Deadline of extended abstract: June 28th, 1997 Notification: July 25th, 1997 Deadline of final(camera-ready) paper: September 12th,1997 Contact (chair of programming committee): Hitoshi Matsubara Electrotechnical Laboratories Complex Games Lab. 1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 JAPAN tel:+81-298-58-5917 fax:+81-298-58-5918 e-mail: gpw etl go jp Programming Committee: Hitoshi Matsubara (ETL, chair) Hiroyuki Iida (Shizuoka Univ.) Takumi Itoh (NTT Software Lab.) Yoshiyuki Kotani (Tokyo Univ. of Agri. & Tech.) Kenji Koyama (NTT Communication Science Lab.) Kohei Noshita (Univ. of Electro-Communications) Yasuki Saito (NTT Basic Research Lab.) Noriaki Sanechika (ETL) Takenobu Takizawa (Waseda Univ.)