Fifth Game Programming Workshop in Japan (GPW'99):

Call for Papers

The purpose of this workshop is to promote computer game
-playing research (for example Shogi, Go, Chess, Othello,
Checkers, Bridge etc.). Relevant topics include, but are
not limited to: the current state of game-playing program,
theoretical developments in game-related research, general
scientific contributions produced by the study of games 
and cognitive research of how human play games.

Title: Fifth Game Programming Workshop in Japan (GPW'99)

Sponsorship:  SIG Game Informatics, Information Processing 
              Society of JAPAN

Co-sponsorship: Computer Shogi Association(CSA),
                Computer Go Forum(CGF)

Date: October 15-17, 1999

PlaceĦ§ Hakone Seminar House, Kanagawa, JAPAN
              (Accomodation: Japanese-style room)
       
Official languages: Japanese/English (no interpretation)

Expected number of participants: 80 people

Registration feeĦ§ 35,000 yen (Student 15,000 yen)

Process:

  Submitted papers will be reviewed by the programming committee.

  Authors must submit 3 printed copies of their extended 
  abstract (about 2000 characters in Japanese or about 500
  words in English) to the following address. For those who
  can submit electronically, please submit materials in plain,
  unformatted text to gpw@etl.go.jp.

  The length of the final(camera-ready) papers must be
  at most 10 pages on A4 or 8 1/2'' x 11'' size.  

  When your paper is accepted, at least one author of
  the paper has to attend the workshop and present your
  paper.  If your presentation is canceled, your paper 
  is not included in the proceedings.
  
Schedule:

   Deadline of extended abstract:  June 26th, 1999

   Notification:  July 23rd, 1999

   Deadline of final(camera-ready) paper:  September 10th,1999

Contact (chair of organizing committee):

   Hitoshi Matsubara
   Electrotechnical Laboratories
   Complex Games Lab.
   1-1-4 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 JAPAN
   tel:+81-298-54-5917  fax:+81-298-54-5918
   e-mail: gpw@etl.go.jp

Programming Committee:

Yoshiyuki Kotani (Tokyo Univ. of Agri. & Tech., chair)
Ian Frank (ETL)
Reijer Grimbergen (ETL)
Hiroyuki Iida (Shizuoka Univ.)
Takuya Kojima (NTT CS Lab.)
Hitoshi Matsubara (ETL)
Martin Mueller (ETL)
Kohei Noshita (Univ. of Electro-Communications)
Takenobu Takizawa (Waseda Univ.)
Atsushi Yoshikawa (NTT CS Lab.)