From: Reijer Grimbergen <grimberg <at> ETL <dot> GO <dot> JP>
Date: 24 sep 1998
Subject: International Conference on Computers and Games (CG'98)

Hi all,

This is the final announcement on the First International Conference
on Computers and Games (CG'98). Please feel free to forward this
information to anyone who might be interested in this conference.

Reijer



****************** FINAL CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT ********************



    THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS AND GAMES (CG'98)

                        Tsukuba, Japan
                     November 10-12, 1998


Conference Topics
=================
The International Conference on Computers and Games '98 will be
held in Tsukuba, Japan from November 10-12, 1998. at the
Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL). 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.

Conference Dates and Places
===========================
 Tue, November 10
 ----------------
 13:00    Workshop
 Evening: Reception
          Friendly game tournaments (Dots and Boxes, Amazons)

 Wed, November 11
 ----------------
 9:00     First day of conference
 Evening: Party

 Thu, November 12
 ----------------
 9:00     Second day of conference
 Evening: Excursion

 Conference Site:
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   Main conference room
   ETL main building, 8th floor, room D-814
   1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568 Japan

Conference Costs:
=================
  Regular registration fee: 13,000 Yen
  Students:                  7,000 Yen

Detailed Information:
=====================
For full details on the conference, including travel information,
updates on the side events, and a registration form, please see
the home page at:

http://www.etl.go.jp/etl/suiron/~mueller/cg98/cg98_main.html

In case of problems with this site, there is also a mirror at
Shizuoka University (please note that the mirror site may not be
updated as frequently as the main home pages):

http://www.cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp/~iida/cg98/cg98_main.html

Conference Officials:
=====================
Jaap van den Herik (Program chair) (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Hiroyuki Iida (Program co-chair) (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Hitoshi Matsubara (Conference co-chair) (ETL, Japan)
Yoshiyuki Kotani (Conference co-chair) (Tokyo Univ of Agr & Tech, Japan)
Takenobu Takizawa (Conference co-chair) (Waseda Univ, Japan)
Atsushi Yoshikawa (Conference co-chair) (NTT Basic Laboratory, Japan)
Morihiko Tajima (Secretary-Treasurer) (ETL, Japan)
Reijer Grimbergen (Liaison) (ETL, Japan)
Ian Frank (Liaison) (ETL, Japan)
Martin Muller (Liaison) (ETL, Japan)

Program Committee:
==================
Jaap van den Herik (Maastricht University, chair)
Hiroyuki Iida (Shizuoka University, co-chair)
Don F. Beal (Queen Mary and Westfield College, UK)
Michael Buro (NEC Institute, USA)
Susan Epstein (Hunter College, USA)
Ian Frank (ETL, Japan)
Ralph Gasser (Microsoft, USA)
Reijer Grimbergen (ETL, Japan)
Richard Korf (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Kenji Koyama (NTT Communication Science Lab, Japan)
Shaul Markovitch  (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Martin Mueller (ETL, Japan)
Kohei Noshita (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Barney Pell (NASA, USA)
Wim Pijls (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam, NL)
Noriaki Sanechika (ETL, Japan)
Jonathan Schaeffer (University of Alberta, CA)
Takao Uehara (Tokyo Engineering Univ., Japan)
Jos Uiterwijk (Maastricht Univ., NL)
Janet Wiles (Queenland University, AU)

Further Information:
====================
CG'98 Local Organising Committee
Complex Games Lab, ETL E-412a
1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8568 Japan
E-mail: cg98 <at> etl <dot> go <dot> jp
Phone: +81-298 54 59 19
Fax:   +81-298 54 59 18