Workshop on Network and System Support for Games (NetGames 2004)
Preliminary Call for Papers

Organized in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM/SIGMM (planned)
http://netgames2004.cse.ogi.edu/

About:

The NetGames workshop brings together researchers and developers from academia and industry to present new research in understanding networked games and in enabling the next generation of them.  Submissions are sought in any area related to
networked games.  In particular, topics of interest include (but are not limited to) game-related work in:

    * Network measurement and modeling
    * System benchmarking, performance evaluation, and provisioning
    * Latency issues and lag compensation techniques
    * Cheat detection and prevention
    * Service platforms, scalable system architectures, and middleware
    * Network protocol design
    * Mobile and resource-constrained gaming systems
    * Augmented physical gaming systems
    * User and usability studies
    * Quality of service and content adaptation
    * Artificial intelligence
    * Security, authentication and accounting

Submissions:

We solicit submisisons of full papers, extended abstracts and
works-in-progress between 5 to 12 pages (single-spaced, double column, 11pt
font) submitted in PDF or in postscript format.  Accepted papers will be
published in the workshop proceedings pending the participation of the
authors in the workshop.  Paper submissions will be done via the web. 
Authors should use the two-column ACM format for the submissions. Detailed
paper submission gudelines will be available soon.  In addition to papers,
technical demonstrations showing original research are also solicited.
One-page descriptions of demos will be reviewed independently of the
technical paper review and acceptance process. Some important dates:

    Abstract submission:  March 5, 2004
    One-page demo submission:  March 5, 2004
    Full-paper submission:  March 12, 2004 (Abstract of full papers MUST be submitted by March 5)
    Notification: April 12, 2004
    Camera ready manuscript: May 10, 2004

Program Committee:

Wu-chang Feng, OGI@OHSU (co-chair)
Wu-chi Feng, OGI@OHSU (co-chair)
Grenville Armitage, Swinburne University of Technology
Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge
Constantinos Dovrolis, Georgia Institute of Technology
Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo
Tristan Henderson, University College London
Martin Mauve, University of Mannheim
Keith Mitchell, Lancaster University (Demo chair)
Debanjan Saha, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Jonathan Walpole, OGI@OHSU
Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig