** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec@listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC) 25-27 September 2008 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA http://www.etc.cmu.edu/icec2008/?q=node/1
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the prestigious 7th International Conference on Entertainment Computing. ICEC 2008 will be an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge amongst researchers and developers in the field of entertainment computing. Different submission types are invited that present scientific ideas or improvements to existing techniques in the broad multi-disciplinary field of entertainment and edutainment applications. ICEC is the longest established and most prestigious conference in the field of entertainment computing. This conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for advanced research and helps to determine the state of the art. Worldwide leading experts from academia and industry will present their newest insights, products and demonstrations.
Under the auspice of: International Federation for Information Processing
Technical Papers: The proceedings of ICEC 2008 are planned to be published by Springer within their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All papers will be reviewed by an international program committee. Accepted papers will be divided into two categories, long presentations and short presentations.
Papers should be submitted through the submission web site in PDF format. All papers are processed electronically. Information regarding the paper and a contact author's email address, postal mailing address, and phone number also must be submitted through the submission web site. Movies or other materials to support papers can also be submitted through the submission web site. The format of movies must be AVI/QuickTime/MPEG-1 and less than 3 minutes long. The size of any material must not exceed 15 mega bytes in total.
Submit a Technical Paper https://www.softconf.com/s08/icec08-TP/
Important dates for technical papers: Full Paper Submission Due: Friday, 25 April 2008 Short Paper Submission Due: extended to Friday, 9 May 2008 Notification of Acceptance: Wednesday, 28 May 2008 Camera-ready Copy Due: Friday, 9 June 2008
Document guidelines: Full Technical Paper: max. 12 pages Short Technical Paper: max. 6 pages Poster Paper: max. 4 pages Demo Paper: max. 4 pages
Demonstrations and Posters: Posters and/or demos present preliminary results of research or design work within the scope of entertainment computing and with more emphasis on the interdisciplinary evaluation of these ideas. An extended abstract should be written in English and must be no longer than 4 pages in LNCS style. All submissions will be reviewed by the ICEC 2008 program committee.
Two different deadlines for posters and demos are set to provide multiple chances to participate in the conference. Extended abstracts accepted from submissions by the early deadline are planned to be included in the proceedings of ICEC 2008. Those accepted from submissions by the late deadline will be published as a separate volume of proceedings and be available online. The late deadline offers authors an opportunity to present late breaking results. If possible, please include pictures and/or a video with your submission. Live demos are also encouraged. To be considered for demonstration during the conference, a 1-page description of the demo should be prepared, which specifies the requirements for space, equipments, and power supply for the demo.
Extended abstracts should be submitted through the submission web site in PDF format. All materials will be reviewed and processed electronically. The information about the work and a contact author's email address, mailing address, and phone number must be submitted through the submission web site by the deadline. Movies or other materials can also be submitted through the submission web site. The format of movies must be AVI/QuickTime/MPEG-1 within 3 minutes, and the size of all materials must not exceed 15 mega bytes. Additional material must also be received by the deadline.
Important dates for demonstrations and posters:
[Early submission deadline] (to be included in conference proceedings) Extended abstract submission due: Extended to Friday, 2 May 2008 Notification of acceptance: Wednesday, 28 May 2008 Camera-ready copy due: Friday, 9 June 2008
[Late submission deadline] (not in proceedings) Extended abstract submission due: Friday, 13 June 2008 (extended) Notification of acceptance: Monday, 27 June 2008 Camera-ready copy due: Friday, 18 July 2008
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