GAMEON-NA'2008, August 13-15, 2008, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

GAME-ON North America 2008
August 13-15, 2008
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Organized by
ETI
Hosted by
McGill University
MOntreal, Canada

Co-Sponsored by
EUROSIS
Ghent University, The Moves Institute, GAMEPIPE,
GRAM
Larian Studios
UBISOFT(to be confirmed)

Conference website
http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/119

The aim of the 4th annual North American Game-On Conference (GameOn'NA 2008) is to bring together academics, researchers and games people from North America in order to exchange ideas on higher-level concepts that contribute to the field of computer gaming research.

The conference will cover three core tracks:
- Games Development Methodology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Learning and Adaptation
- Intelligent/Knowledgeable Agents
- Collaboration & Multi-agent Systems
- Opponent Modelling
- Physics and Simulation/Graphical Simulation
- 3D Scalability
- Facial, Avatar, NPC, 3D in Game Animation
- AI and Simulation Tools for games design
- Game Design
- Rendering Techniques

And a number of peripheral tracks

- Voice Interaction
- Artistic input to game and character design
- Storytelling and Natural Language Processing
- Online Gaming - Security Issues in Online Gaming
- MMOG's

- Serious gaming
- Wargaming Aerospace Simulations, Board Games etc....
- Games for training.
- Games Applications in education, Government, health, Corporate,
First Responders and Science

- Games Consoles
- Games Console Design
- Mobile Gaming
- Perceptual User Interfaces for Games

The conference will be held at McGill University, Montreal,
Canada (http://www.mcgill.ca/)

PAPER SUBMISSION TYPES

FULL PAPER (including abstract, conclusions, diagrams, references). During review, the submitted full paper can be accepted as a regular 5 page paper.If excellent, the full paper can be accepted by the program committee as an extended (8-page) paper.

EXTENDED ABSTRACT (at least five pages)
Participants may also submit a 5 page extended abstract for a regular (5 pages) or short (3 pages) paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee.

SHORT ABSTRACT (at least three pages)
Participants may also submit a 3 page abstract for a short paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the GameOn-NA 2008 Conference Proceedings.

ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.

DEADLINES AND REQUIREMENTS
Send all submissions in an ELECTRONIC FORM ONLY in (zipped or unzipped) Microsoft Word format or PDF format (PREFERRED FORMAT) indicating the designated track and type of submission (full paper or an extended abstract) to EUROSIS (Philippe.Geril@eurosis.org).

Please provide your name, affiliation, full mailing address, telephone/fax- number and Email address on all submissions as well. For submissions please put in the subject of your Email the following indications: GameOn-NA-2008 and designated track or USE the links on the THEMES page!!
http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/572

Only original papers, which have not been published elsewhere, will be accepted for publication.

TUTORIAL:
Affective Computing for Game Development
Eva Hudlicka, Ph.D., Psychometrix Associates, Blacksburg, VA, US

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

EARLY BIRD SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2008

SUBMISSION DEADLINES

SUBMISSION DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2008
Submit contributed full-papers (5 to 8 proceedings pages) not previously published. These submissions, when accepted will be published as regular or extended papers, depending on their quality.

Submit extended abstracts (5 abstract pages) or short papers (3 abstract pages), reports of industrial projects and summaries of posters. These submissions, when accepted will be published as regular, of up to 5 proceedings page papers.

Submit one -to -three page proposals to present tutorials, to organise and chair panel sessions or for extended workshops.

Submit abstracts for student and poster session.

LATE PAPER SUBMISSION: MAY 10 2008

JUNE 15, 2008
Notification of Acceptance or Rejection.

JULY 15, 2008
Authors provide camera-ready manuscript.

AUGUST 13-15, 2008
Conference

OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD
The 2008 GameOn-NA Conference Committee will select the Outstanding Paper of the Conference. The author of this paper will be awarded a free registration for a EUROSIS conference. Only papers SUBMITTED AS FULL papers will be eligible for the Outstanding Paper Award.

LANGUAGE
The official conference language for all papers and presentations is English.

POSTER SESSION
The poster session only features work in progress. Next to the
actual poster presentation, these submissions also feature as
short papers in the Proceedings.

STUDENTS SESSION
This session is for students, who want to present their work in
progress or part of their doctoral thesis as a paper. Student papers
are denoted by the fact that only the name of the student appears on
the paper as an author. They are published as short papers in the
Proceedings.

DIVERSE ACTIVITIES
For demonstrations or video sessions, please contact Philippe Geril

REGISTRATION FEES

Registration Fees
Authors EUROSIS Other
Members Participants
Pre-reg before CAD 485 CAD 485 CAD 535
July 15th 2008

Reg after Pre-registration CAD 535 CAD 555
July 15th 2008 required

Student authors pay:CAD 350

Students who register after JULY 15th or who are not authors pay CAD 375

The registration fee includes a copy of the Proceedings, lunches,
conference dinner, get-together party, coffee breaks and and a possible company visit

REPLY CARD
First Name:
Surname:
Occupation and/or Title:
Affiliation:
Mailing Address

Zip code: City: Country.
Telephone: Fax:
E-Mail:

Yes, I intend to attend the GameOn-NA'2008:
[ ] Presenting a paper, by submitting a full paper
[ ] Presenting a short paper (by submitting an extended abstract)
[ ] Participating in the industrial program
[ ] Proposing a panel discussion (please mention names of panelists)
[ ] Without presenting a paper
[ ] Proposing a workshop
[ ] Proposing a Tutorial

The provisional title of my paper / exhibited tool is:

With the following highlights:

The paper belongs to the category (please tick only one):
[] Games Development Methodology
[] Artificial Intelligence
[] Learning and Adaptation
[] Intelligent/Knowledgeable Agents
[] Collaboration & Multi-agent Systems
[] Opponent Modelling
[] Physics and Simulation/Graphical Simulation
[] 3D Scalability
[] Facial, Avatar, NPC, 3D in Game Animation
[] AI and Simulation Tools for games design
[] Game Design
[] Rendering Techniques
[] Voice Interaction
[] Artistic input to game and character design
[] Storytelling and Natural Language Processing
[] Online Gaming - Security Issues in Online Gaming
[] MMOG's and Second Life Applications
[] Serious gaming
[] Wargaming Aerospace Simulations, Board Games etc....
[] Games for training.
[] Games Applications in education, Government, health, Corporate,
First Responders and Science
[] Games Consoles
[] Games Console Design
[] Mobile Gaming
[] Perceptual User Interfaces for Games

Other colleague(s) interested in the topics of the conference is/are:
Name:
Address:
Name:
Address:
If you would like to receive more information about EUROSIS and its
activities, please tick the following box:

[ ] YES, I would like to know more about EUROSIS
[ ] NO, please remove me from your database.
Please send or fax this card immediately to: (fax: +32.9.264.58.25)
Philippe Geril, EUROSIS, Ghent University, Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Industrial Mgmt. Technologiepark 903, Campus Ardoyen B-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
www.eurosis.org

CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS
Philippe Geril
EUROSIS
Ghent University
Faculty of Engineering
Dept. of Industrial Mgmt
Technologiepark 903
Campus Ardoyen
B-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
Tel: +32 9 264.55.09
Fax: + 32 9 264.58.25
Email: philippe.geril@eurosis.org

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