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

2. 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

3. 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%

4. 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, (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

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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