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IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games: Information for Authors

Scope

The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND AI in GAMES (TCIAIG), published four times a year, publishes archival journal quality original papers in computational intelligence and related areas in artificial intelligence applied to games, including but not limited to video games, mathematical games, human-computer interactions in games, and games involving physical objects. Emphasis will also be placed on the use of these methods to improve performance in and understanding of the dynamics of games, as well as gaining insight into the properties of the methods as applied to games. It will also include using games as a platform for building intelligent embedded agents for the real world. Papers connecting games to all areas of computational intelligence and traditional AI will be considered.

Publication Timeline

Every effort is made to ensure minimum delay from submission to publication.  Authors have a key role to play in minimising the delay between initial submission and publication, largely by ensuring that manuscripts are of high quality both in terms of content and presentation.  Use of a proof-reading service is highly recommended for any authors who are not native English speakers. 

When the final version of a manuscript is accepted, it is immediately published electronically on IEEE Xplore and given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), at which time it enters the queue for publication in the paper version.  In line with the IEEE's policy on scholarly publishing, authors are also free to archive the PDF of the published paper on their own web-site or institutional repository. 

For manuscripts that are accepted without revision it is entirely feasible that they could be published within twelve weeks of the initial submission.

Types of Contributions

TCIAIG publishes full papers (not letters).  Review managemant is primarily under the direction of an associate editor, who will solicit reviews for each submission. The associate editor will ordinarily make a recommendation after receving three reviews.   To avoid delays in processing your paper, please follow these guidelines.

Submission of Manuscripts

All correspondence concerning submissions is between the author, Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Assistant. To submit your paper for consideration, visit the web submission system at Manuscript Central found at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tciaig-ieee. Here you can create a new account or use an existing one if you have one, and submit a first draft of a new manuscript. Use ample margins on all sides, and please ensure that your uploaded file prints without error on both 8.5x11 inch and A4 paper.

This TRANSACTIONS is devoted primarily to archival reports of work that have not been published elsewhere. Specifically, conference records and book chapters that have been published previously are not acceptable unless and until they have been enhanced significantly. In special circumstances or on exceptional occasions, the editor may deem a contribution noteworthy enough to be exempted from this policy. Ensure that in "Comments to Editor-in-Chief" you state that the work being submitted has not been published elsewhere, nor is it under review currently by another publication.

Style for Manuscript

The TCIAIG follows the standard format IEEE Transactions. For guidelines and templates please follow this link: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html. A list of 2-5 keywords are required for all manuscripts. Number all pages of hard copy manuscripts, using one side only. Provide an abstract of 100-200 words that is an informative summary of the paper, including any important results found or conclusions drawn. Authors are encouraged to put detailed derivations in appendixes. Papers longer than 12 pages in the IEEE Transactions format will be considered only if the author can justify this length in the transmission letter. The authors are encouraged to suggest a publication category for their paper, but this may be changed by the editor-in-chief as deemed appropriate. Manuscripts may also be submitted for review in single column double-spaced format. As a guideline, 12 pages of IEEE Transactions format may equate to around 35 pages of double spaced single column format.

Page Charges

After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the author's company or institution will be requested to pay a charge of $110 per printed page to cover part of the cost of publication. Page charges for this TRANSACTIONS, like those for journals of other professional societies, are not obligatory, nor is their payment a prerequisite for publication. The author will receive 100 free reprints without covers if the page charge is honored. Detailed instructions accompany the proofs.

Copyright

It is the policy of the IEEE to own copyright to the technical contributions it publishes. To comply with the IEEE copyright policy, authors are required to sign the IEEE Copyright Transfer & Export Control compliance From before publication in either the print or electronic medium. The form is provided upon approval of the manuscript. Author must submit a signed copy of this form with their final manuscripts.

Submission of Final Manuscript

Page Numbers: Number all pages, including illustrations (which should be grouped at the end), in a single series, with no omitted numbers. Figures should be identified with the figure number and author's name at the bottom or on the back; keep the information in the margin, off the body of the figure.

References and Captions: Put references on a separate page and provide them in IEEE style. Figure captions should also be on a separate page from references and content. Do not include captions on the illustrations themselves. Figure captions should be sufficiently clear so that the figures can be understood without detailed reference to the accompanying text. Axes of graphs should have self-explanatory labels, not just symbols, wherever appropriate.

Illustrations and Photos: Figures and photos should be original figures and not photocopies. Photos must be glossy prints with not screens. Laser prints are not acceptable in place of photos or where gray-scale graphics are involved. All line drawings and photos should be in black and white, unles specifically requested. Letters should be large enough to be readily legible when the drawing is reduced to two or one-column width - as much as 4:1 reduction from the original. All materials should be no larger than 22 x 28 cm (8.5 x 11 in).

Electronic Form for Final Printing: For the final printed production of the manuscript, the author will need to provide a disk (3.5 in) or CD-ROM and two paper copies of the peer-approved version. Please be certain that changes made to the paper are incorporated into your disk version, and include an ASCII version of the file. Note the operating system (DOS, Mac, UNIX, etc.) and the software used on the label of the disk. Check that all files are complete including abstract, text, references, footnotes, biographies, and figures and captions. Figures, tables, and author photos may be submitted in .tiff, .eps, or .ps formats on disk. A separate set of disks should be submitted for graphics as they are processed separately from the manuscript. For more information on submitting electronic graphics, please visit the URL:http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html and click on the link "Guidelines for Author supplied Electronic Text and Graphics."
IEEE can process most commercial software programs, but not page layout programs. Do not send postscript files. The preferred programs are TeX, LaTeX, and WordPerfect. (Use standard macros.) An IEEE LaTeX style file or Word Template can be obtained at the URL:http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html.