Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals
VS Games 2018
10th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications
5. – 7. September, Würzburg, Germany
https://vsgames.org/2018/
Deadline for Papers: 30. April 2018
Deadline for Workshop Proposals: 1. February 2018
SCOPE
The conference will explore games and virtual worlds in relation to:
- Novel technologies
- Applications
- Methodologies, theories and frameworks
- Evaluation approaches and studies
TOPICS OF INTEREST
- AI applications for serious games
- Serious games methodologies
- User-modelling in serious games
- Pervasive gaming
- Interactivity issues
- Game design
- Alternate reality games
- Virtual environments
- Augmented reality
- Visualisation techniques
- Human-computer interaction
- Mobile games
- Education and learning
- Multimedia gaming
- Case studies in serious games and virtual worlds
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission: 30. April 2018
- Notice of Acceptance: 4. June 2018
- Camera Ready Submission: 22. June 2018
- Workshop Proposal: 1. February 2018
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Electronic submission of all papers is mandatory and will be conducted using the EasyChair system by April 30th. Papers must be written in English, must be anonymized, and must be formatted according to IEEE standards (A4 template) (regardless of category).
Accepted papers must be presented orally in English at VS-Games 2018. This event uses a triple-blind reviewing approach, so please be sure to remove all personal data (such as authors, affiliations, etc.) from your submission. References to your own work should be made in the third person to maintain anonymity. Reviewers are asked to keep confidential all materials sent to them for evaluation. Non-anonymous submissions will be rejected without review.
VS-Games has three tracks, full, short and poster, with corresponding lengths of 8, 4, and 2 pages. We ask authors to ensure that their paper fits within the specified length for their submission track, including references. Authors are encouraged to upload supplementary material (e.g. multimedia) if such material facilitates understanding of the work.
All authors will be notified of paper acceptance by 1st June 2018. There is no rebuttal process. Successful submissions will be asked to review carefully their paper and make any minor modifications requested by reviewers, before uploading the camera ready version by 20th June 2018. All accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore.
For any questions regarding submission please email the conference chairs: generalchair@2018.vsgames.org.
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The VS Games 2018 Steering Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held along with the technical conference. VS Games 2018 workshops will provide a meeting for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. Their aim is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Virtual Worlds and Serious Games. Members of all areas of the Virtual Worlds and Games communities are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on global challenges, applications or on new and emerging topics are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be half a day in duration. If desired by the organizers, workshop proceedings can be published through IEEE Xplore. Attendance of workshops will be included in the registration fee for the main VS Games 2018 conference.
Important Dates
- Workshop proposal submission deadline: February 1st, 2018
- Workshop acceptance notification: February 15th, 2018
- CfP submission deadline to VS Games 2018: March 15th, 2018
- Workshop paper submission deadline: June 11th, 2018
- Workshop paper acceptance notification: June 25th, 2018
- Camera-ready papers due: July 2nd, 2018
- Workshop notes submission to WS chairs: July 16th, 2018
- Workshops date: September 7th, 2018
Full details are here:
https://vsgames.org/2018/call-for-workshops/