Topics include:

• Scalability, cloud support, client-server, P2P, and mobile architectures
• Efficient message distribution and network protocol design
• Latency issues and lag compensation techniques
• Network traffic measurement and modeling
• System benchmarking, performance evaluation, and provisioning
• Operating system enhancements, service platforms, and middleware
• Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG)
• Multiplayer usability and user behavior studies
• Personal communications and conferencing in games
• Mobile games, resource-constrained systems, and context-based adaptation
• Quality of service, quality of experience, and system/content adaptation
• Dynamic and user-generated content authoring and management
• Security, authentication, accounting and digital rights management
• Cheat detection and prevention
• Social networking in multiplayer games
• Data analytics and visualization support for game research