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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">NETGAMES’05 </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">The 4th Workshop on Network and Systems
Support for Games</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">http://www.research.ibm.com/netgames2005/</font>
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in cooperation
with ACM SIGCOMM</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">The 4th Workshop on Network and Systems
Support for Games</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">(NETGAMES’05) will be held in T.J.
Watson Research Center,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Hawthorne, NY on October 10-11, 2005.
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">The NETGAMES workshop brings together
researchers and </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">developers from academia and industry
to share ideas and </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">present new research in understanding
networked games </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">and in enabling the next generation
of online games.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">LOCATION & DATE</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">IBM T.J. Watson Research Center </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Hawthorn, NY</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">October 10-11, 2005</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">PROGRAM</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">NETGAMES’05 features papers and extended
abstracts describing</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">research related to networked games
on all platforms. This year,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">presentation topics will include:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">MOBILE & WIRELESS GAMES</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Networked Game Mobility Model
for First-Person-Shooter</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Games”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Swee Ann Tan, W. Lau,
Alan Loh (Curtin U. of Tech, Australia)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “On the Effects of Loose Causal
Consistency in Mobile</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Multiplayer Games”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Angie Chandler, Joe Finney
(Lancaster University, UK) </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Programming Interactive Real-Time
Games over WLAN for </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Pocket PCs with J2ME
and .NET CF”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Andreas Janecek, Helmut
Hlavacs </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> (Univ. of Vienna, Austria)
</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Framework for Evaluation of Networked
Mobile Games”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Leo Petrak, Olaf Landsiedel,
Klaus Wehrle </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> (Univ. of Tübingen, Germany)
</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">CHEATING & FAIRNESS </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “A Systematic Classification of
Cheating in Online Games”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Jeff Yan, Brian Randell
(University of Newcastle, UK) </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Addressing Cheating in Distributed
MMOGs”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Patric Kabus, Wesley
Terpstra, Mariano Cilia, </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Alejandro Buchmann (Darmstadt
Univ. of Technology, Germany)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Fairness in Dead-Reckoning based
Distributed Multi-Player</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Games”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Sudhir Aggarwal, Hemant
Banavar (Florida State University),</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Sarit Mukherjee, Sampath
Rangarajan (Bell Labs/Lucent Tech)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">MULTIPLAYER GAME ARCHITECTURE</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “A Distributed Event Delivery Method
with Load </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Balancing for MMORPG”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Shinya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro
Murata, Keiichi Yasumoto, </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Minoru Ito (Nara Institute
of Science and Technology, Japan) </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Dynamic Microcell Assignment for
Massively Multiplayer </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Online Gaming”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Bart De Vleeschauwer,
Bruno Van Den Bossche, Tom Verdickt,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Filip De Turck, Bart
Dhoedt, Piet Demeester </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> (Ghent Univ., Belgium)
</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “A Challenge for Reusing Multiplayer
Online Games without</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Modifying Binaries”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Yugo Kaneda, Hitomi Takahashi,
Masato Saito, Hiroto Aida,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Hideyuki Tokuda (Keio
University, Japan)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">NETWORK EFFECTS ON GAMES</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Influence of Network Latency and
Packet Loss on Consistency</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> in Networked Racing Games”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Takahiro Yasui, Yutaka
Ishibashi, Tomohito Ikedo </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> (Nagoya Institute of Technology,
Japan) </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “The Effect of Latency and Network
Limitations on MMORPGs – </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> (A Field Study of Everquest2)”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Tobias Fritsch, Hartmut
Ritter, Jochen Schiller </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> (Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany) </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Analysis of Factors Affecting
Players' Performance and</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Perception in Multiplayer
Games”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Matthias Dick, Oliver
Wellnitz, Lars Wolf </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Packetization Interval of Haptic
Media in Networked </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Virtual Environments”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Masaki Fujimoto, Yutaka
Ishibashi </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> (Nagoya Institute of Technology,
Japan) </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">ONLINE GAMING SERVICE</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “FreeRank: Implementing Independent
Ranking Service for</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Multiplayer Online Games”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Li Tang (Tsinghua University,
China) </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Patch Scheduling for On-line Games”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Chris Chambers, Wu-chang
Feng (Portland State University) </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Game Server Selection for Multiple
Players”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Steven Gargolinski, Christopher
St. Pierre, Mark Claypool</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> (Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, USA)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">GAME TRAFFIC CHARACTERIZATION</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “On the 802.11 Turbulence of Nintendo
DS and Sony PSP Hand-</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> held Network Games”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Mark Claypool (Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, USA) </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Traffic Characteristics of a Massively
Multiplayer </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Online Role Playing Game
and Its Implications”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Jaechul Kim (Seoul National
University, Republic of Korea) </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">.. “Dissecting Server-Discovery Traffic
Patterns Generated By</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Multiplayer First Person
Shooter Games”</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Sebastian Zander, David
Kennedy, Grenville Armitage </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> (Swinburne University
of Technology, Australia)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">There will also be a panel session
titled: </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> “Research in Online Games:
An Industry Perspective”</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">For additional information see the
conference web site:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> http://www.research.ibm.com/netgames2005/</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">REGISTRATION</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Registration is now open:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> http://www.regonline.com/eventinfo.asp?EventId=29371</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Fees: Full Registration ($100), ACM
Members ($75), </font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">and all Students ($35)</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">A list of nearby hotels has been posted
on the conference</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">website.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">IMPORTANT DATES</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Early Registration: September 20, 2005
</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Program Chair:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Debanjan Saha (IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center)</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Publicity Chair:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Hani Jamjoom (IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Finance Chair:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Sambit Sahu (IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Technical Program Committee:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Grenville Armitage (Swinburne
University, Australia)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Adrian Cheok (National
University of Singapore, Singapore)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Mark Claypool (Worcester
Polytechnic Institute)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Wu-chang Feng (Portland
State University)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Tristan Henderson (Dartmouth
College)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Sugih Jamin (University
of Michigan)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Brian Levine (University
of Massachusetts)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Sarit Mukherjee (Lucent
Bell Labs)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Anees Shaikh (IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New"> Lars Wolf (Tech Univ Braunschweig,
Germany)</font>
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