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<p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#0000ff" style="font: 19.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">40th ISAGA 2009 conference</font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#0000ff" style="font: 19.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">Singapore, 29 June to 3 July 2009</font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#0000ff" style="font: 19.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">Theme: <i>Learn to Game and Game to Learn</i></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000f0" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000f0"><a href="http://www.ISAGA2009.org/"><u>http://www.ISAGA2009.org</u><u></u></a></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">C a l l for P a p e r s</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000ff"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">Track</font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000ff"><b>Gaming & Simulation Methodology</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Design is a key activity in gaming & simulation. As Klabbers (2008) has pointed out, design - broadly conceived - aims at implementing courses of action with the purpose of changing existing (dysfunctional) situations or systems into preferred ones. According to Klabbers we need to distinguish two levels of design: a) design-in-the-small and b) design-in-the-large. Design-in-the-large offers a basis for various forms of consulting, training and education in an attempt to foster new ways of thinking and acting in the context of organizational development. Games & simulations, and related design methodologies offer effective approaches to the framing and better understanding of social systems and to the generation of ideas and the shaping of action repertoires for change. Design-in-the-small produces games and simulations (artifacts) as such, and related interactive learning environments with the aim of modifying existing organizational cultures and structures. Used with that goal in mind, they contribute to the design-in the-large process of social systems.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Games can be designed for dual purposes: a) to generate a practical tool (artifact) for supporting the design-in-the-large, or b) to devise a method or model in the analytical science tradition for developing and testing theories. In both cases games are being used to simulate (to model) existing social systems. Klabbers stresses the fact that members of gaming and simulation associations represent two distinct branches of science: a) design sciences (communities of practice) and b) analytical sciences (community of observers). The basic concept of the design sciences is to build games and assess their effects and usability. The scientific methods of the analytical sciences aim at using games for developing and testing theories. Both communities focus on different notions of causality and use different criteria for success.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 37px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"> </font><img src="cid:10BF5720-4140-449F-9C75-4B34DB6AECE7@local"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"> </font></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Figure: Framework of two interconnected gaming and simulation communities (Klabbers, 2008).</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">The methodology track will focus on and welcome papers that explore such topics as,</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 72.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">game design</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 72.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">theory testing</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 72.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">assessment studies (evaluation)</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 72.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Gaming & change processes (design-in-the-small & design-in-the-large)</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 72.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Game research (e.g., comparison between various sorts of games or classification schemes, playfulness of rigid-rule versus free-form games, competitive versus cooperative gaming, and so on).</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Submissions are welcome on all methodology related issues with respect to simulation and gaming, their design, use, and evaluation. We plan “traditional” paper presentations with discussion and we also plan to organise a panel discussion with interactive Q&A session on <i>“Bridging the gap between design science and analytical science domains of gaming & simulation”</i>. We further plan a joint publication with invited participants of the track.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Excellent background discussions can be found in the following symposiums (guest editor Jan Klabbers) in Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal <a href="http://sg.sagepub.com/"><font color="#0000f0" style="color: #0000f0">http://sg.sagepub.com</font></a>:</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 72.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">“State of the Art and Science of Simulation & Gaming”, Volume 32, 4, 2001</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 72.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">“Simulation and Gaming: The Art and Science of Design”, Volume 34, 4, 2003</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 72.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">“Artifact Assessment versus Theory Testing”, Volume 37, 2, 2006</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">The symposium (guest editor Willy Kriz) in Simulation & Gaming:</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 72.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">“Bridging the Gap: Transforming Knowledge into Action through Gaming and Simulation”, Volume 40, 1, 2009.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">The books:</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 72.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Duke, R. & Geurts, J. (2004). Policy games for Strategic Management. Tilburg.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 72.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -24.0px"><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Symbol">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: 9.0px Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Klabbers, J. H. G. (2008). The Magic Circle: Principles of Gaming & Simulation. Rotterdam.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">Procedures and Deadlines </font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">Paper proposals - March 1, 2009</font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">Notification about acceptance - April 1, 2009</font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000ff"><i>Optional</i>: draft paper </font><font face="Wingdings" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Wingdings; color: #0000ff">è</font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000ff"> May 1, 2009 </font><font face="Wingdings" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Wingdings; color: #0000ff">è</font><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000ff"> Feedback, May 15, 2009</font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 15.0px Arial; color: #0000ff">Final paper June 1, 2009</font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">Please send you contribution to <a href="mailto:isaga2009@ssags.org"><font color="#0000f0" style="color: #0000f0"><u>isaga2009@ssags.org</u></font></a></font></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Arial">*****</font></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>