IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games Report for AdCom June 2013 Simon M. Lucas Editor-in-Chief

Status Published quarterly, now in Volume 5 Annual page budget of 320 pages Staying close but slightly over until now Will be close to 360 this year Requested extension to 400 pages for 2014 and beyond (has been approved) Publishing queue is healthy

Statistics May 2013, since inception Accepted 121 Original Submissions 408 Average time to first decision (days) 50 Average time to final decision (days)+ 200 Average sub to e-pub (days) 268 Acceptance ratio: * 32% *The 32% estimate is a best guess including the ones under review likely to be accepted. Current ratio of accepted papers to total submissions is 29.7%

Special Issues Monte Carlo Techniques and Computer Go 18 submissions, 8 accepted (plus guest editorial), Dec 2010 Procedural Content Generation 22 submissions, 8 accepted (plus guest editorial), Sep 2011 Computational Aesthetics and Games Deadline: October 28, 2011 (15 papers submitted; expect to accept 7, to published September 2012) BCI and Games Deadline: May 1, 2012 (13 submissions) Computational Narrative in Games Deadline: Sep 21, 2012 (received 22 submission) General Game Systems Deadline: End of May 2013 Game Data mining (just being finalised) Deadline: November 2013

Healthy increase, due to: Current submissions Received: 97 papers in 2010 69 papers in 2011 116 papers in 2012 50 papers so far in 2013 (as of June 18) Healthy increase, due to: Impact factor (1.62) New paper categories (added letter and short) Popular Narrative SI special issue (22 submissions) Gathering momentum: Is now THE place to publish in the area of CI/AI and Games

Impact Factor Included in Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Report (JCR) 2 year impact factor of 1.62 Very healthy for new journal Was Ranked 32nd out of 109 AI journals on SCIMago (for 2010) Now up to 22nd out of 114 (for most recent year, 2011) http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?area=1700&category=1702&country=all&year=2011&order=sjr&min=0&min_type=cd

Summary and Plans Journal has made a very good start Strong special issues have helped Still more work needed to expand set of authors and ensure a healthy stream of submissions New categories of paper are already helping Impact factor of 1.62 has also helped IEEE Outstanding Paper Award has now been approved Review and sub-to-pub times were slowly creeping up, but are now under control 50 days sub-to-first decision is very competitive with other journals