Call for Papers

Topics of Interest

Aligned with this year's special topic of AIIDE, the main topic of this workshop will be Explainable and Informed Game Analytics. In this regard, together with the main analytics topics, we encourage paper submissions introducing or applying explainable and informed analytics models to a variety of game analytics use cases covering, for instance, recommender systems, e-sports analytics, behavior prediction, social network analysis and market-process optimization (please see note below).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Interactive and online machine learning methods for Game Analytics
  • Monte Carlo tree search
  • Hybrid and fuzzy AI solutions for Game Analytics
  • Matrix and tensor factorization models
  • Recommender Systems and games
  • Applications of NeuroEvolution methods in Game Analytics
  • Deep Learning methods for Game Analytics
  • Data-driven Matchmaking algorithms for games
  • Churn and conversion prediction in games
  • Fraud analysis in games
  • Pricing and promotions in online games
  • Data visualization in Game Analytics
  • Sequence and itemset mining in games
  • Social network analysis in games
  • Esports analytics
  • Game economics
  • Practical applications with informed and/or interpretable machine learning methods
  • Communicating analytics
  • Game Analytics in non-traditional environments
  • Other related emerging topics in Game Analytics

Please note: We are interested in submissions whether they are theoretical, technical, empirical, applied or any combination thereof. New algorithms or similar are not necessary, the focus of the workshop is on solving problems. Towards this end, papers that are non-technical, interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary but which take on challenges in Game Analytics are of interest to the workshop. For example, submissions showcasing how to deal with the problem of communicating the results of analytical processes to designers, or papers who propose ways of merging analytics and user research, game analytics applied in education or even showcases how to use analytics for artistic expression - all are welcome.

Submission

Contributions for GAW'19 should be written in AAAI Style (see links below) and formatted for double blind review (i.e. without any author or affiliation information) and submitted through Easychair (URL will be available soon). The program committee will review all submissions.

GAW'19 will consider papers in three tracks:

  • Long/Short Papers: We invite both long (6-7 pages including references) and short (1-5 pages including references) papers describing complete works of research (for long papers) or work in progress (for short papers) covering theoretical and practical contribution in the area of Game Analytics. Long and short position and vision papers providing literature reviews and discussing emerging topics are also welcomed.
  • Application Notes: Short papers (1-5 pages including references) about a variety of analytics systems, tools or platforms that are (being) built to address industry problems. The papers in this category describe implementational details of their applications, the challenges faced during the development and deployment processes, experiences with maintenance of the application and/or benchmarking different hardware and software infrastructures.
  • Extended Abstracts: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit an extended abstract (1-2 pages including references) describing their early ideas or already published Game Analytics work in conferences, journals, technical reports or books.
  • Tutorials: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit suggestions for tutorials. Please contact the organizers at: gaw19@easychair.org

All of the accepted papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (indexed by Scopus and Google Scholar).

Important Dates


  • Early submissions
    • Deadline of proceedings paper submission: July 12, 2019
    • Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2019
  • Regular submissions
    • Deadline of proceedings paper submission: September 2, 2019
    • Notification of acceptance: September 27, 2019
  • Camera-ready submission: October 7, 2019
  • Workshop date: 9 October 2019

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