CALL FOR PAPERS: THE 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
ADVANCES IN COMPUTER GAMES (ACG2015)

Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
1-3 July 2015 (precise dates to be confirmed)

Aske Plaat, Jaap van den Herik, Walter Kosters (editors)

Leiden, the Netherlands

The fourteenth conference on Advances in Computer Games (ACG2015) will be held in Leiden, the Netherlands, in conjunction with the 21th World Computer Chess Championship and the 18th Computer Olympiad. We expect that the conference commences on July 1 at 08.30-12.30h and will take place on three consecutive days. The WCCC and the CO will likely take place from June 30 to July 8, also at Leiden University. Dates will be confirmed in early January 2015.
The conference aims in the first place at providing an international forum for computer-games researchers presenting new results on ongoing work. The recent successes of the CG and the ACG conferences have encouraged the organizers to widen their scope and therefore we encourage contributions on virtual and video games and modern board games. So, we invite contributors to submit papers on all aspects of research related to computers and games. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: (1) the current state of game-playing programs for classic and modern board and card games, (2) the current state of virtual, casual and video games, (3) new theoretical developments in game-related research, and (4) general scientific contributions produced by the study of games. Also researchers on topics such as (5) social aspects of computer games, (6) cognitive research of how humans play games, (7) capture and analysis of game data, and (8) issues related to networked games are invited to submit their contributions.

Important Dates
Paper Submission March 1, 2015
Acceptance Notification March 25, 2015
Final Papers May1, 2015

Website
http://ACG2015.wordpress.com
https://www.conftool.net/acg2015

Paper Submission Requirements
Papers of 8 to 10 pages are preferred. The maximum length is 12 pages. The preferred format for submission is PDF, but Word is also acceptable. The paper must be written in the English language. We expect to publish the proceedings in the Lecture Notes Series (LNCS/LNAI) format. Please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS/LNAI Web: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Refereeing Process
The usual full refereeing process will be executed. Papers will be refereed by members of the Programme Committee. Papers will be accepted if their overall quality is acceptable and the topic suits the conference. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation during the conference and will be printed as conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference. Notice of acceptance of papers will be sent by March 25, 2015 to the principal author. Final papers are due by May 1, 2015.

Registration Fee
Early Late
(On or before April 1) Late (After April 1)
Participants Euro 200 Euro 250
Students Euro 150 Euro 180
Admission to the conference and a copy of conference proceedings are included in the conference registration fee.

Proceedings
The editing and processing of the contributions to the proceedings will be performed by Aske Plaat, Jaap van den Herik, and Walter Kosters. The proceedings will be published in 2015 (Post-proceedings). During the conference participants can order (additional) copies.

The Chairs of the Program Committee
Aske Plaat
Jaap van den Herik
Walter Kosters

Program Committee
Victor Allis
Ingo Althöfer
Petr Baudis
Darse Billings
Yngvi Björnsson
Bruno Bouzy
Ivan Bratko
Cameron Browne
Murray Campbell
Tristan Cazenave
Bo-Nian Chen
Jr-Chang Chen
Paolo Ciancarini
Rémi Coulom
Omid David
Jeroen Donkers
David Fotland
Johannes Fuernkranz
James Glenn
Michael Greenspan
Reijer Grimbergen
Matej Guid
Dap Hartmann
Tsuyoshi Hashimoto
Guy Haworth
Ryan Hayward Huang Hong
Shun-Chin Hsu
Tsan-Sheng Hsu
Han-Shen Huang
Robert Hyatt
Hiroyuki Iida
Tomoyuki Kaneko
Graham Kendall
Akihiro Kishimoto
Yoshiyuki Kotani
Clyde Kruskal
Hans Kuijf
Richard Lorentz
Ulf Lorenz
Shaul Markovitch
Hitoshi Matsubara
John-Jules Meyer
Martin Mueller
Todd Neller
Nathan S. Netanyahu
J.A.M. Nijssen
Jakub Pawlewicz
Jacques Pitrat
Christian Posthoff
Matthias Rauterberg Aleksander Sadikov
Jahn Saito
Salcedo-Sanz Sancho
Maarten Schadd
Richard Segal
Yaron Shoham
David Silver
Pieter Spronck
Nathan Sturtevant
Takuya Sugiyama
Tetsuro Tanaka
Gerald Tesauro
Olivier Teytaud
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
Jos Uiterwijk
Erik van der Werf
Peter van Emde Boas
Jan van Zanten
Gert Vriend
Hans Weigand
MarkWinands
Thomas Wolf
I-Chen Wu
Xinhe Xu
Georgios Yannakakis
Shi-Jim Yen


Organizing Committee
Johanna Hellemons (chair), Annemart Berendse, Abdel Boujadayni, Marloes van der Nat, Aske Plaat

More information
Prof. Aske Plaat, Leiden University, LIACS, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden, the Netherlands, email: Johanna Hellemons, info@icga.org or aske.plaat@gmail.com.