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In an effort to bring together an international community of gaming experts and enthusiasts, CGAMES today issued its call for AI-, Mobile-, Education-, and Serious Games-themed papers. Already on its 9th time, the International Computer Games Conference is known to focus on issues like the state-of-the-art gaming hardware, new research results, perspectives of future developments and innovative applications relevant to games development and related areas.

This year's theme, as hinted above, focuses on four general areas: AI, Mobile, Educational and Serious Games. Slated from November 20 to 24, the conference will be held at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Dublin, Ireland. Organizers highly encourage topics related to modelling and programming of believable characters, as well as designs and experiments of original type of games.

All of these are part of the Game-On International Conference of Wolverhampton University, UK and also in association with the IEEE Computer Society. Deadline for submissions is on September 20. For further details, visit CGAMES official site here.