First Announcement and Call for Papers

CGAMES 2014 Louisville 

The 19 ^th INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER GAMES CONFERENCE

AI, Animation, Interactive Multimedia, Virtual Worlds and Serious Games

28^th July – 30^th 2014

Galt House Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Venue: Galt House Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Venue Web Site: http://www.galthouse.com

CGAMES 2014 conference is in a Technical Co-Sponsorship with IEEE Society and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on SIMULATION (TCSIM) has endorsed the conference.

The conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion to CSDL and IEEE Xplore as well as various indexing and abstracting partners.

Welcome to CGAMES 2014 International Computer Games Conference, now in its 14^th year, is acknowledged as one of the leading research conferences devoted to advancing the theory and practice of computer games development. It is organised by the University of Wolverhampton, UK, in association with the University of Louisville and the IEEE TCSIM Computer Society. The conference website can be found at www.cgamesusa.com.

The International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Interactive Multimedia, Virtual Worlds & Serious Games organised by The University of Wolverhampton, UK, is one of the leading research conferences devoted to the advancement of the theory and practice of games development. It brings together an international community of experts to discuss the state-of-the-art in computer games research, perspectives of future developments and innovative applications relevant to games development and related areas. Past conferences have attracted hundreds of participants from the industry and the academia from around the globe www.cgames.org.

The main aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, games developers, sound, graphics, video, and animation developers, education and training industry from around the world to exchange ideas on design methods, research and development, and development methodologies that are beneficial to the computer games industry and the academia. For each event the theme has been chosen to reflect the major changes in the way in which digital games are developed and played.

We hope that you will plan to join us in Louisville, Kentucky in July 2014.

For more information and enquires, please contact the conference administrator:

Janine Dandy: J.A.Dandy@wlv.ac.uk.

You are invited to submit a paper on any topic related to computer games design, development and education, and particularly papers covering the use of AI for modelling and programming “believable characters”, mobile games, and multiplayer on-line, educational and serious games. We strongly encourage the submission of papers related to the design and the experiments of original type of games, in particular in the fields of serious games, ubiquitous, mobile, cross media platforms and massively multiplayer on line games.

Paper Format

The conference will be using IEEE manuscript template in MS Word or Adobe format on an A4 page size. Template samples and Paper formatting instructions can be found at:

ieee.org/..templates.html

computer.org/..formatting

The Conference “No-Show Paper” Policy

The conference expects at least one author of accepted paper to present at the technical meeting of CGAMES’14. Authors of accepted papers included in the conference program who do not attend the conference and present their papers will have their papers classified as a “No Show Paper”. A “No Show List” will be created to include the authors of “No Show Paper”, which will be made available to all CGAMES organising committee, who can reject submissions from these authors for the following three years.

No-show papers will not be published in the Conference Proceedings. The conference will notify the IEEE conference operations of any papers that are to be excluded from IEEE Xplore. “No-Show Papers” will not be available on IEEE Xplore digital library or other public access IEEE forums.

Exceptions to this policy will be made by the Organising Committee of CGAMES’14 conference only if the authors of the “No-Show Paper” have produced evidence seven days before the starting date of the conference to prove that the no-show occurred due to the unanticipated events beyond the control of the authors, and every option available to the authors to present the paper was exhausted.

Important Dates

First call for papers: 15 November 2013
Paper Submission Deadline: 16 June 2014
Notification of Paper Acceptance: 30 June 2014
Final Paper Submission: 7 July 2014

Early Bird Registration: 2 April 2014
Author Registration: 7 July 2014
Conference Dates: 28 July – 30 July 2014

Important Notice – Please Read

Papers received after the Final Paper Submission deadline will not appear in the Proceedings. Authors of accepted papers are requested to orally present their papers at the conference otherwise their papers will NOT be included in conference proceedings.

Authors are expected to register at the earliest convenience. Authors are required to present at the conference. Papers will only be included in the proceedings if the registration fee is paid.

The conference will cover, but is not restricted to, the following topics:

• Games platforms, toolkits, mechanics, frameworks, engines, APIs and libraries, and middleware, Scripting engines
• Game interfaces (input devices, speech, gestures)
• Content generation tools (modelling, texturing, animation, motion capture, sound, level designer)

• Neural networks, genetic algorithms, Finite State Machines, fuzzy logics, rule-based AI, probability systems, Bayesian techniques, path finding, potential functions, flocking
• Learning, adaptation and evolution
• Believable characters, models, agent architecture, memory, game  bots
• Multi-Agent Simulation systems (MAS)
• Game AI for research and simulation

• Game Production and Mechanics
• Level Design
• Game Assets and Content World Design
• Game Elements
• Game Play
• Game Design Process

• Immersive Environments, virtual environments, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality
• Real-time rendering and shaders
• Procedural generation (particles, textures, objects, terrains, worlds)
• Game Physics, NURBS, skeletal animation, facial animation
• Level-Of-Detailing, image-based rendering, photo realism

• Edutainment, games for education and training, learning & teaching aids, technology-supported learning, simulations, developments and applications
• Disaster Management, crowd simulation, crime scene investigation, medical training, security, situation awareness, games-based therapy, games for science

• Gender in games, violence, and pervasive gaming
• The Player
• Games and society
• Gaming communities

• Games for mobile, Tablets, handheld, and connected systems
• MUDs, MMOGs, MMORPGs
• Games development for iPad, iPhone, and Android Phones and Tablets
• Ambient learning environments for mobile devices and ad-hoc networking
• Load Balancing and distributed Techniques
• Distributed Simulation Tools and Techniques for Mobile and Online Games (High level architecture, communication protocols, peer to peer architectures, publish/subscribe techniques, scalability and Interoperability, etc.)
• learning, information support activities
• Game Security

• Generative/Procedural content development (characters, models, music, worlds)
• Physics-based games
• Emergence in Games
• Mixed-Reality and Augmented Reality for Games
• Future Games Interfaces: Touch, Gestures, Multi-Point UI

• Cloud computing Games
• Distributed Games, Tools, and services
• Cloud Based Tools and Services
• Emerging Games Genres and Platforms
• Computational Techniques and Architectures
• Image Processing in Games
• Information Storage and Retrieval

• Interactive robots and toys, virtual Pets
• Games Technology and ambient intelligence for next generation games
• Sensors based interaction with the environment

• Games Genres
• Games Simulation
• Level Design
• Adaptable Interactive Interfaces

• Visual aesthetics
• Animation, Graphics, and Visualization

• Sound design
• Music composition

• Human Resources Management
• Ethics in Advertising, Marketing, and production
• Video games industry Compliance
• Training and Development in Games Industry

The following 3 days are all day sessions and the conference dinner is normally held on the second of these two days.

Notes:

1. Please note the conference organiser reserves the right to alter, adjust and change the conference program and time without prior notice.
2. The duration of the author presentation is 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions approximately.

Track Code:
GE – Game Engines
GD – Games Design
GDev – Games Development
CI – Computational Intelligence
EG – Emerging Games Platforms, Technologies & Applications
AP – Games Applications
SG – Serious Games and Games for Research
GS – Games Simulation, Graphics & Visualisation
WI – Work in Progress

Professor Qasim Mehdi // General Conference Chair

University of Wolverhampton, UK – q.h.mehdi@wlv.ac.uk

Professor Adel Elmaghraby // General Programme Chair

University of Louisville, USA – adel@louisville.edu

Professor Rob Moreton // International Programme Chair

University of Wolverhampton, UK – r.moreton@wlv.ac.uk

Dr Roman Yampolskiy // Programme Chair

University of Louisville, USA - roman.yampolskiy@louisville.edu

Professor Rammohan Ragade // Conference Organisation and Sponsorship Chair

University of Louisville, USA – ragade@louisville.edu

Professor Jerzy W. Jaromczyk // Academic and Industry Chair

University of Kentucky, USA – jurek@cs.uky.edu

Dr. Dar-jen Chan // Conference Workshop and Student Activities Chair

University of Louisville, USA – djchan01@louisville.edu

Dr. Julia Chariker // Sponsorship Chair

University of Louisville, USA – julia.chariker@louisville.edu

Dr. Adrian Lauf // Computer Games Technology Chair

Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA – adrian.lauf@louisville.edu

Professor Nicholas Zeman // Games Industrial Liaison Chair

Northern Kentucky University, USA – zemann1@nku.edu

Mr. Jasbir Uppal // Conference Publication Chair

University of Wolverhampton, UK – J.S.Uppal@wlv.ac.uk