2018 16th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames)

NetGames brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry across the globe to present their latest research on the challenges of today's online gaming industry. NetGames accept papers dealing with networked games, but also with the online services that are based on games, such as e-sport, gamecasting, immersion in games, and arcade rooms. Submissions are solicited on all aspects of online games, including (but not limited to):

• Architecture for online games: Scalability, cloud support, mobile, P2P, edge-computing, middleware...
• Performance evaluation: Network traffic measurement, data analytics, system benchmarking, game engines monitoring...
• Gaming in the real world: Augmented reality, Internet of Things (IoT), multisensory games...
• Gamecasting and e-Sport: Video capturing and sharing, game broadcasting, event networking aspects...
• Technologies enabling immersion in gaming: Virtual Reality, network to Head-Mounted-Displays, wearable sensors, visualization support, arcade rooms...
• Social networking and games: Conferencing in multiplayer games,  bullying prevention, interactions in gamecasting...
• Game service management: Security (authentication, accounting and digital rights management), cheat detection and prevention, user-generated content authoring and management...