[game_edu] Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: IEEE Software, Special Issue: "Engineering Fun"

[Susan Gold]

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> From: Clark Verbrugge <clump at cs.mcgill.ca>

> Date: November 24, 2010 8:23:53 AM EST

> To: icec at listserver.tue.nl

> Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: IEEE Software, Special Issue:  

> "Engineering Fun"

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> CFP: IEEE Software, Special Issue: "Engineering Fun"

>

> http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/swcfp5

>

> Submission Deadline: 1 February 2011

> Publication: September/October 2011

>

> As large and complex software projects, modern computer games pose  

> many software engineering challenges, with complex and performance- 

> intensive design and implementation choices. As entertainment  

> products, games also rely heavily on less well-defined, abstract  

> properties such as playability and fun. The influence of soft,  

> thematic, and aesthetic requirements on precise and practical  

> designs introduces a variety of interesting development constraints  

> and goals. This requires novel solutions to design, workflow, and  

> specific technical problems, but it also allows approaches that  

> optimize performance by exploiting the greater latitude afforded to  

> entertainment products.

>

> In this special issue, we invite researchers and practitioners to  

> submit work that addresses the practical development of modern  

> computer games. We especially invite papers that consider the  

> multimedia nature, requirements, and abstract playability goals of  

> game development, their integration and development within a  

> complex, performance-oriented software context, as well as potential  

> transfer to other software domains. Topics include but are not  

> limited to

>

>    * Game design, software architectures

>    * Workflow: multimedia integration, prototyping systems

>    * Development processes, modular component design and integration

>    * Console, hand-held, multi-platform requirements

>    * Quality assurance, monitoring and preserving game properties

>    * Formalization and verification of game properties or processes

>    * Techniques for ensuring immersive game-play

>    * Game AI: perception-based and simplified designs, natural  

> movements, practical techniques

>    * Multiplayer and networked systems: designs, fault-tolerant and  

> scalable techniques

>    * Consistency and latency issues

>    * Cheat detection

>    * Testing, including scripting and automated designs

>    * Performance and optimization

>    * Content generation; techniques and processes

>

> Submissions may take the form of traditional research articles,  

> developing a relevant topic or solution in depth, or short,  

> practical, or expository articles (3–5 pages) that describe best  

> practices or address a specific technical or development concern  

> related to modern game development. Where appropriate, we strongly  

> encourage submissions that include supplemental multimedia material  

> for online publication.

>

> Manuscripts must not exceed 4,700 words including figures and  

> tables, which count for 200 words each. Submissions in excess of  

> these limits may be rejected without refereeing. The articles we  

> deem within the theme's scope will be peer-reviewed and are subject  

> to editing for magazine style, clarity, organization, and space. We  

> reserve the right to edit the title of all submissions. Be sure to  

> include the name of the special issue's theme with your submission.

>

> Articles should have a practical orientation, and be written in a  

> style accessible to practitioners. Overly complex, purely research- 

> oriented or theoretical treatments are not appropriate. Articles  

> should be novel. IEEE Software does not republish material published  

> previously in other venues, including other periodicals and formal  

> conference/workshop proceedings, whether previous publication was in  

> print or in electronic form.

> Questions?

>

> For more information about the focus, contact the guest editors:

>

>    * Clark Verbrugge, McGill University

>      clump at cs.mcgill.ca

>    * Paul Kruszewski, GRIP Entertainment

>      paul.kruszewski at gripent.com

>

> Website: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/swcfp5

>

> For general author guidelines: www.computer.org/software/author.htm

>

> For submission details: software at computer.org

>

> To submit an article: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sw-cs

>

> -- 

> ttfn,

> clark verbrugge

> associate professor

> school of computer science

> mcgill university

> clump at cs.mcgill.ca

>

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-- 
Susan Gold
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
- J. G. Ballard







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