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ASE4Games 2021 : First International Workshop on Automated Software Engineering for Computer Games | |||||||||||
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Call for Papers
First International Workshop on Automated Software Engineering for Computer Games ASE4Games 2021 November 15, 2021 Website: https://ase4games.org E-mail: ase4games@gmail.com ASE4Games is a one day workshop held in conjunction with the 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (https://conf.researchr.org/home/ase-2021). The game community continues to grow and embraces stakeholders with broad interests. There are games for entertainment, serious games (i.e., games with a purpose), and gamified applications. Entertainment games, for example, are a thriving industry with over two billion players around the world; this industry generates over 120 billion in revenues. However, today’s large-scale entertainment games have many challenging development issues. They are complex, can take years to develop, and rely on teams with expertise spanning artistic, computer science, software engineering, and business skills. Games have demanding traditional quality of service requirements (e.g., performance, reliability, scalability, usability). They also have distinct user experience requirements to provide players with a game that is engaging and fun. The interdisciplinary games and software engineering research community investigates game development issues from the perspectives of traditional engineering (e.g., requirements engineering, design, testing) and umbrella (e.g., lifecycle processes, configuration management, traceability) activities. In addition, topics including metrics, re-use, data analytics, user experience, and so on are also explored. Automating the methods for these diverse topics is essential to support the rapid, cost effective development of high quality games. ASE4Games 2021 provides a forum to explore issues that crosscut the automated software engineering and the game development communities. Theme and Topics Game developers share a common community of interest: how to best engineer game software. They focus their attention on entertainment market opportunities, game-based applications in non-entertainment domains such as defense, education, healthcare, and scientific research (i.e., serious games), and the gamification of applications to improve engagement. This workshop seeks contributions from academic researchers and commercial game developers, addressing topics that span the emerging and current research challenges in the areas including, but not limited to: - Automated requirements engineering methods for games. - Automated software architecture and design methods for games. - Automated generation and modding of games. - Automated software testing for games, including usability and playtesting. - Automated model based representations, analyses, and transformations (forward, reverse). - Automated monitoring, analysis, and visualization of game play data acquired from large scale games. - Automated machine learning techniques applied to game development. - Automated adaptation of game play. - Automated workflows/processes for game development (e.g., Agile, DevOps). - Automated configuration management, traceability, and build methods for game development. - Tools, infrastructure, and services supporting automated game development methods. The goals of ASE4Games 2021 are to gather academic game researchers and commercial game developers to share contributions on topics relevant to the emerging grand challenges in Automated Software Engineering for Games. We seek to: - Bring together the greater community of software engineers and game engineers in an interactive program that encourages discussion and scholarly debate from interdisciplinary perspectives. - Identify and explore emerging and new research challenges, costs and benefits for entertainment games, serious games, and gamification in traditional (non-game) applications and activities. - Generate a new research agenda, identify topics of interest for this community, and how future workshops may explore these topics. This workshop is structured to be highly interactive, encourage discussions, and appeal to participants from academia and industry. The workshop is going to feature two keynote presentations, short and long paper presentations with discussions, a game/tool demonstration session, and a social event to build strong, lasting relationships among the participants. Important Dates: - Submission deadline (research papers, game/tool demonstrations): 03 September 2021 - Camera Ready: 01 October 2021 - Workshop: Monday 15 November 2021 Submission Instructions All submissions are going to be refereed by three members of the program committee. Accepted submissions are going to be published in the conference electronic proceedings in addition to the ACM Digital Library and the IEEE Digital Library. Submissions are accepted as follows: - Long research papers (8 pages) - Short research papers (5 pages) - Game and tool demonstrations (2 pages) In their submissions, the authors must provide links to their repository of supporting material (e.g., code, videos, etc.). Submissions must follow the ASE 2021 submission instructions using the IEEE templates. Note that the names and ordering of authors in the camera ready version cannot be modified from the ones in the submitted version. ASE4Games 2021 requires that at least one author on each accepted submission registers for and attends the (virtual) ASE4Games 2021 workshop to present their results. Submissions are via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ase4games, ASE4Games 2021. Co-organizers Kendra M. L. Cooper, Independent Scholar Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Concordia University Fabio Petrillo, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Cristiano Politowski, Concordia University |
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