September 10-12, 2007
Hilton University of Florida
Gainesville, USA

The aim of the 3rd annual North American Game-On Conference (GameOn'NA 2007) is to bring together academics, researchers and games people from North America and the rest of the world in order to exchange ideas on higher-level concepts that contribute to the field of computer gaming research. 

The conference will cover three core tracks:

• Games Development Methodology
• Artificial Intelligence
  • Learning and Adaptation
  • ntelligent/Knowledgeable Agents
  • Collaboration & Multi-agent Systems
  • Opponent Modelling
• Physics and Simulation/Graphical Simulation
  • 3D Scalability
  • Facial, Avatar, NPC, 3D in Game Animation
  • AI and Simulation Tools for games design
  • Game Design
  • Rendering Techniques

And a number of peripheral tracks

• Voice Interaction
• Artistic input to game and character design
• Storytelling and Natural Language Processing
• Online Gaming - Security Issues in Online Gaming
• MMOG's
• Serious gaming
  • Wargaming Aerospace Simulations, Board Games etc....
  • Games for training.
  • Games Applications in education, Government, health, Corporate, First Responders and Science
• Games Consoles
  • Games Console Design
  • Mobile Gaming
  • Perceptual User Interfaces for Games

The conference will be held at the Hilton University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. (www.ufhilton.com}

Paper Submission Types
FULL PAPER (including abstract, conclusions, diagrams, references). During review, the submitted full paper can be accepted as a regular 5 page paper.If excellent, the full paper can be accepted by the program committee as an extended (8-page) paper.

EXTENDED ABSTRACT (at least five pages)
Participants may also submit a 5 page extended abstract for a regular (5 pages) or short (3 pages) paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee.

SHORT ABSTRACT (at least three pages)
Participants may also submit a 3 page abstract for a short paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the GameOn-NA 2007 Conference Proceedings.

ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.

Deadlines and Requirements
Send all submissions in an ELECTRONIC FORM ONLY in (zipped or unzipped) Microsoft Word format or PDF format (PREFERRED FORMAT) indicating the designated track and type of submission (full paper or an extended abstract) to EUROSIS (Philippe.Geril@eurosis.org).

Please provide your name, affiliation, full mailing address, telephone/fax- number and Email address on all submissions as well. For submissions please put in the subject of your Email the following indications: GameOn-NA-2007 and designated track or USE the links on the THEMES page!!

http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/248

Only original papers, which have not been published elsewhere, will be accepted for publication.

Important Deadlines
Early Bird Submission Deadline May 10th 2007
Submission Deadlines June 1- June 20, 2007

Submit contributed full-papers (5 to 8 proceedings pages) not previously published. These submissions, when accepted will be published as regular or extended papers, depending on their quality. Submit extended abstracts (5 abstract pages) or short papers (3 abstract pages), reports of industrial projects and summaries of posters. These submissions, when accepted will be published as regular, of up to 5 proceedings page papers.

Submit one -to -three page proposals to present tutorials, to organise and chair panel sessions.

June 1- June 20, 2007
Submit abstracts for student and poster session.

July 5, 2007
Notification of Acceptance or Rejection.

August 15, 2007
Authors provide camera-ready manuscript.

September 10-12, 2007
Conference

Outstanding Paper Award
The 2007 GameOn-NA Conference Committee will select the Outstanding Paper of the Conference. The author of this paper will be awarded a free registration for a EUROSIS conference. Only papers SUBMITTED AS FULL papers will be eligible for the Outstanding Paper Award.

Language
The official conference language for all papers and presentations is English.

Poster Session
The poster session only features work in progress. Next to the actual poster presentation, these submissions also feature as short papers in the Proceedings.

Students' Session
This session is for students, who want to present their work in progress or part of their doctoral thesis as a paper. Student papers are denoted by the fact that only the name of the student appears on the paper as an author. They are published as short papers in the Proceedings.

More info at: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/67