Hello everybody, as some of you know, I am Vice President of the ICGA (= International Computer Games Association). After a very long and successful period (over 30 years) with Prof. Dr. Jaap van den Herik as Chief Editor, now a new team will steer the Journal. The official statement of the ICGA says:
With great pleasure we announce the continuation of communication of progress in our games community via the ICGA Journal. All members who have paid their membership fee for 2016 can learn from this communication that they have paid already for the issues appearing in 2017. (Explanation: There were no issues of the Journal in 2016.) IN GENERAL The main goal of this communication is to inform you that we have recently filled in the position of Editor-in-Chief of the ICGA Journal by an excellent researcher from Taiwan. Two new board members will support him and also an editorial manager will help with the daily activities. Moreover, we have an Editor for the second part of the Journal, containing the Reports and Issues of General Interest, and an Editor for General ICGA Affairs. For their publication the ICGA cooperates with IOS press, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. THE NEW BOARD Starting at January 1, 2017 The ICGA Journal is in the hands of Professor I-Chen Wu Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University TEL: +886-3-5731855 FAX: +886-3-5733777 http://aigames.nctu.edu.tw/~icwu who will act as Editor -in- Chief. He will be seconded by Dr. Mark Winands Maastricht University Maastricht, the Netherlands and Dr. Tristan Cazenave Dauphine University, France The Editorial Manager will be Tinghan Wei jour...@icga.org Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University. Papers submitted to the ICGA Journal (see below) will finally go through him. They will undergo a full peer review process, The IOS press will help the ICGA with their system. The Editor for the second part of the ICGA Journal is Professor Ingo Althoefer Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Germany Fakultaet fuer Mathematik und Informatik Angewandte Mathematik ingo.althoe...@uni-jena.de The Editor for General ICGA affairs will be Dr. Walter Kosters LIACS, Leiden University NEW SUBMISSION PROCEDURE This message also signals the start of a new procedure of submitting scientific papers (articles or notes) to the ICGA Journal. New procedure for the Submission of scientific manuscripts Authors are requested to submit their manuscript electronically to the online submission system: https://submissions.iospress.com/icga-journal/content/submit-manuscript Note that the manuscript should be uploaded as one file with tables and figures included. Submission of material for the second part of the Journal should be directly sent to the Editor for the second part, Professor Ingo Althoefer. THANK YOU We hope to have informed you well and look forward to a fruitful continuation of the ICGA Journal. We thank you for the very pleasant cooperation over many, many years. SPECIAL THANKS Jaap van den Herik is grateful to the new Editorial Board for his appointment as Honorary Editor. He wishes the new Board Members all success possible. ************************************************************************* So guys, when you have interesting tournament reports, event announcements, book reviews, or essays, feel free to send it to me. By the way, one of my ideas is to have a regular (or irregular, we will see) column "best of the computer go mailing list". The Journal appears on paper every three months, so four issues per year. Typically it has 64 pages in each issue, and costs 40 Euro per year - of course to be paid in advance. Ingo. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
