From: Hiroyuki Iida CS INF SHIZUOKA AC JP> Date: 4 mar 1998 Subject: CFP - Conference on Computers and Games (CG'98). Dear Colleague, Please find attached the CFP of The First International Conference on Computers and Games (CG'98). Feel free to forward this message to anybody you know who might also be interested in this conference. Best regards, Hiroyuki. -- Hiroyuki Iida iida cs inf shizuoka ac jp Computer Games Research Institute Shizuoka University 3-5-1 Johoku, Tel: +81-53-478-1456 Hamamatsu 432 Japan Fax: +81-53-475-4595 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers The First International Conference on Computers and Games (CG'98) Tsukuba, Japan November 11-12, 1998 The International Conference on Computers and Games '98 will be held in Tsukuba, Japan from November 11-12, 1998. The conference has been motivated by the previous successes of computer games related events held in Japan, such as the series of four Game Programming Workshops (GPW'94 to GPW'97) and the IJCAI-97 Workshop on Computer Games. This conference aims to provide an international forum for researchers to gather and exchange ideas on all aspects of research related to computers and games. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: the current state of game-playing programs, new theoretical developments in game-related research, general scientific contributions produced by the study of games, social aspects of computer games, cognitive research of how humans play games, and issues related to networked games. This will be the first time that an international conference has been dedicated to these issues. Timetable for Paper Submission: May 10, 1998 Deadline for Paper Submission July 20, 1998 Acceptance notification Paper Submission Requirements: Each submission must include a cover and a copy of the complete manuscript. The cover page should include : Author Name(s), affiliation(s), complete address(es); telephone, fax, E-mail for the principal author, and the title of the paper. Area(s) that relate(s) to your paper with some key words. Authors must submit 3 printed copies of paper or a postscript of the paper. Other requirements are: the papers must be in the English language, not exceeding 10 pages. (The receipt of a paper will be acknowledged). Notice of acceptance of papers will be sent by July 20, 1998 to the principal author. It is encouraged for submitted papers to follow the IJCAI-97 LaTeX style, available from IJCAI's home page: http://ijcai.org/ijcai-97 or by sending E-mail to info ijcai org. Review Process and Paper Submissions: Papers will be refereed, and those selected will be scheduled for presentation and printed in the proceedings of the conference. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference. Publishing Policy of the Conference Proceedings All papers accepted for presentation will initially appear in Proceedings at the conference. Later, a book of the proceedings will be published by an international publisher (under negotiation). The decision on which papers to include in the book publication will be based on the recommendations of the conference reviewers. For some papers, there may be a second reviewing process in which authors will be given the chance to address shortcomings (either technical or presentational) identified in the initial review. Send papers to: Prof. Jaap van den Herik, Program chair Phone: +31-43-388 3485 or 3477 Fax: +31-43-3252392 E-mail: herik cs unimaas nl Department of Computer Science University of Maastricht P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands or Dr. Hiroyuki Iida, Program co-chair Phone: +81 534 781 456 Fax: +81 534 754 595 E-mail: iida cs inf shizuoka ac jp Computer Games Research Institute Faculty of Information Shizuoka University 3-5-1 Johoku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, 432 Japan. Conference Registration Fee Registration fee (including proceedings and drinks) is $US100 or 12,000yen. Conference Officials Conference Organizing Committee Conference co-chairs: Hitoshi Matsubara (ETL, Japan) Yoshiyuki Kotani (Tokyo Univ. of Agr. & Tech., Japan) Takenobu Takizawa (Waseda Univ., Japan) Atsushi Yoshikawa (NTT Basic Labolatory, Japan) Secretary-Treasurer: Morihiko Tajima (ETL, Japan) Liaison Officer: Reijer Grimbergen (ETL, Japan) Ian Frank (ETL, Japan) Martin Muller (ETL, Japan) Advisory Committee Elwyn Berlekamp (University of Calfornia, Berkeley, USA) Hans Berliner (CMU, USA) Jurg Nievergelt (ETH, SW) Monty Newborn (McGill Univ., CA) Tony Marsland (University of Alberta, CA) Conference Program Committee Chairs: Jaap van den Herik (Maastricht Univ., NL) Hiroyuki Iida (Shizuoka Univ., Japan) Programming Committee: Jaap van den Herik (Maastricht University, chair) Hiroyuki Iida (Shizuoka University, co-chair) Don F. Beal (Queen Mary and Westfield College, UK) Janet Wiles (Queenland Univeristy, AUS) Jonathan Schaeffer (University of Alberta, CN) Jos Uiterwijk (Maastricht Univ., NL) Michael Buro (NEC Institute, USA) Noriaki Sanechika (ETL, Japan) Kenji Koyama (NTT Communication Science Lab, Japan) Kohei Noshita (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan) Ralph Gasser (Microsoft Inc., SW) Richard Korf (University of Calfornia, Los Angels, USA) Shaul Markovitch (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Susan Epstein (Hunter College, USA) Takao Uehara (Tokyo Engineering Univ., Japan) Wim Pijls (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam, NL) Reijer Grimbergen (ETL, Japan) Ian Frank (ETL, Japan) Martin Muller (ETL, Japan) The Conference will be sponsered by Electrotechnical Laboratory, Shizuoka University, Japan Shogi Association, Japan Go Association and Computer Shogi Association. 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