From: Ian Frank <ianf <at> ETL <dot> GO <dot> JP>
Date: 12 nov 1999
Subject: Computers and Games 2000 CFP

 [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]

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* COMPUTERS AND GAMES 2000 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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* Second International Conference on Computers and Games
* Hamamatsu, Japan, 26-28 October 2000
* CURREAC Centre
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* http://www.etl.go.jp/etl/suiron/~ianf/cg2000/
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This second International Conference on Computers and Games will build
on the success of the first conference held in 1998.  The conference
will provide a unique international forum for researchers to gather
and exchange ideas on all aspects of research related to computers and
games. Selected papers from CG98 are soon to appear as a special issue
of Theoretical Computer Science, and we anticipate a similarly high
quality for CG2000.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

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 on how
humans play games, and issues related to networked games.


PAPER SUBMISSION:

The proceedings of CG98 were published by Springer in the LNCS series.
With a view to continuing this tradition for CG200, authors are
requested to use the Springer style files (for "Proceedings and Other
Multi-author Volumes") found at:

phttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Papers must not exceed 20 pages in this format, and must be in
English.  Authors are requested to submit 4 printed copies of the
paper or a single postscript file to one of the addresses below.

Each submission must include a cover page giving: the paper title,
Author Name(s), affiliation(s), complete address(es), emails, and also
a telephone and fax number for the principal author. Please also
include the paper abstract and a list of keywords on the cover page.

Papers will be refereed, and those selected will be scheduled for
presentation and printed in the proceedings of the conference. There
may be a second round of review to allow authors to improve the
presentation of papers that reviewers judge to have significant
content but fall short in their level of English exposition. Authors
of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present
their papers at the conference.


IMPORTANT DATES

  May 22, 2000    Deadline for papers.

  July 25, 2000   Accept/Reject notifications sent to authors.

  Aug 22,  2000   Deadline for camera-ready copy of accepted papers.


SEND PAPERS TO:

Prof. Tony Marsland          OR      Dr. Ian Frank
(Program chair)                      (Program co-chair)
Dept of Computing Science            Electrotechnical Laboratory
University of Alberta                1-1-4 Umezono
Canada T6G 2H1                       Tsukuba-shi
                                     Ibaraki-ken
                                     305-8568 Japan

Tel: +1-780-492-3971                 Tel: 0298-54-3371
Fax: +1-780-492-1071                 Fax: 0298-54-5918
E-mail: tony <at> cs <dot> ualberta <dot> ca          Email: ianf <at> etl <dot> go <dot> jp


CONFERENCE OFFICIALS:

Organising Committee:

      Conference co-chairs:
      Hiroyuki Iida (Shizuoka Univ., Japan)
      Yoshiyuki Kotani (Tokyo Univ. of Agr. & Tech., Japan)
      Hitoshi Matsubara (ETL, Japan)
      Takenobu Takizawa (Waseda Univ., Japan)
      Atsushi Yoshikawa (NTT Basic Laboratory, Japan)

      Program Chairs:
      Tony Marsland (Alberta University, Canada)
      Ian Frank (ETL, Japan)


Program Committee:

      Tony Marsland (Alberta University, Canada)
      Ian Frank (ETL, Japan)
      Don F. Beal (Queen Mary and Westfield College, UK)
      Michael Buro (NEC Institute, USA)
      Ken Chen (UNC Charlotte)
      Susan Epstein (Hunter College, USA)
      Aviezri Fraenkel (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
      Reijer Grimbergen (ETL, Japan)
      Jaap van den Herik (Maastricht University)
      Shun-Chin Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
      Takuya Kojima (NTT Basic Laboratory, Japan)
      Richard Korf (University of Calfornia, Los Angels, USA)
      Shaul Markovitch (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
      Martin Muller (ETL, Japan)
      Monty Newborn (McGill University, Canada)
      Jurg Nievergelt (ETH, Switzerland)
      Kohei Noshita (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan)
      Wim Pijls (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam, NL)
      Jonathan Schaeffer (University of Alberta, CN)
      Gerry Tesauro (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
      Jos Uiterwijk (Maastricht Univ., NL)
      Janet Wiles (Queenland University, AUS)

Local Arrangements Committee

      Hiroyuki Iida (Shizuoka University, chair)
      Uri Globus (Shizuoka University)
      Reijer Grimbergen (ETL)
      Jin Yoshimura (Shizuoka University)
      Martin Muller (ETL)

REGISTRATION FEE

The normal registration fee is 13,000yen (approx. US$ 130). For students,
the rate is 7,000yen (approx US$ 70). This includes a free copy of the
proceedings, and admittance to the conference reception.