Call for Chapter Proposals - Game Development in the Cloud
Important dates
- Deadline for Chapter Proposals: 18 July 2011
- Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2011
- Full Chapters Due: 17 October 2011
- Revisions for Authors Due: 14 November 2011
- Camera-ready Chapters Due: 19 December 2011.
*This call is now closed*
Call for Chapter Proposals - Game development in the Cloud
Emerging technologies for distributed network games
Publisher: Springer-Verlag, UK.
Editors
- Prof. Nikolaos Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK
- Dr. Minhua Ma, Glasgow School of Art, UK
- John Sear, University of Derby, UK
- Rocco Loscalzo, Monumental Games Ltd, Nottingham UK.
Book description
Game development in the Cloud: Emerging technologies for distributed network games offers an insightful introduction to cloud computing and games in the Cloud, with cutting edge academic research and industry updates which will inform readers of current and future advances in the area.
This book suits for both researchers and game professionals who are trying to gain a thorough understanding of emerging technologies of cloud computing, issues of applying them into video games, such as server side rendering, distributed AI, peer-to-peer network games, their impacts on game design, development, and business models, and vice versa, the impacts of massively multiplayer games on cloud computing.
Recommended topics
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to:
- Introduction to cloud computing (characteristics of cloud computing, cloud computing infrastructure)
- Massively multiplayer games on the cloud
- Server side rendering in the cloud
- Impacts of cloud computing on game design
- Impacts of cloud on game development
- Impact of MMGs on cloud computing.
Editing and development process
All chapters must be original, of high quality and of approximately 15-30 pages in length at the publication stage. Submitted chapters should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Papers which have appeared previously in proceedings of conferences can be submitted to this book if they are substantially revised or improved from their earlier versions, with at least 30% new material or results, to comply with the copyright regulations. All submissions will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process.
Publishing schedule
- Deadline for Chapter Proposals: 18 July 2011
- Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2011
- Full Chapters Due: 17 October 2011
- Revisions for Authors Due: 14 November 2011
- Camera-ready Chapters Due: 19 December 2011.
We will be pleased to offer one complimentary copy to the corresponding (or the first author) of each chapter as a token of appreciation.
