CFP - Special Session on Neural Networks in Games and Simulations

[Stephen McGlinchey]

            C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S

                   Special Session On

     NEURAL NETWORKS IN COMPUTER GAMES AND SIMULATION

                       as part of

           International Conference on Computer Games:
    Artificial Intelligence, Design and Education (CGAIDE)

                    8-10 November 2004
          Hosted at the Microsoft Campus, Reading, UK

          http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1822/cgaide.htm

The main objectives of this special session are:

  * To provide a forum for presenting and discussing the application of
    neural networks in computer games and simulations
  * To promote collaboration between the computer games and computational
    intelligence research communities.

Neural Networks (NN) in in Computer Games and Simulations
============================We invite submission of papers presenting recent research on Artificial
Neural Networks applied to any aspect of computer games technology or
simulation. The scope of the session may include topics from the following
non-exclusive list.

Autonomous control of game agents.
Processing of game content data.
Real-time feature extraction from game data.
Simulation or anaylisis of emotions / intelligence.
Automatic analysis of human player behaviours.
Synthesis of dynamic game content.
Strategic game applications (e.g. Go and Chess)
Optimising search spaces.

Submissions are encouraged from any other related application of neural
networks in games or simulation. Full papers should be sent in Adobe pdf
or MS Word format to stephen.mcglinchey at paisley.ac.uk by the submission
deadline. 

Send a full paper - not previously published - in Word format (no smaller
than 10-point format) to include author, address, e-mail, keywords and abstract
(200 words max) in one of the following categories:
Regular paper max. 5 pages
Extended Paper max. 8 pages
Critical Review paper max. 10 pages

Important dates:
    Draft paper submission           : 30 July 2004
    Notification of acceptance       : 23 August 2004
    Camera-ready submission deadline : 13 September 2004


Please send enquiries to:

Stephen McGlinchey (stephen.mcglinchey at paisley.ac.uk)
School of Computing
University of Paisley
Paisley, Scotland

or

Darryl Charles (dk.charles at ulster.ac.uk)
School of Computing and Information Engineering
University of Ulster
Coleraine, Northern Ireland.