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IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom 2023), June 26-28, 2023, Kyoto, Japan
http://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023
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IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission Due: 30 December 2022
Author Notification: 15 March 2023
Camera-Ready Due: 10 May 2023
Conference Dates: 26-28 June 2023

MetaCom 2023 provides a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present research progresses, exchange new ideas, and identify future directions in the field of Computing, Networking, and Applications for Metaverse.

Scope and Objectives:
Metaverse is one of the key enablers for the future society, which is envisioned to bring a new revolution to digital world. For Metaverse, physical world will be seamlessly integrated with cyber world through digitizing physical objects to create digital twins, which poses numerous challenges on human-machine interfaces, ultra-low latency, extremely high resource demands, low traffic, reliability and trustworthiness. To realize this vision, it becomes indispensable for the convergence of computing, networking and applications for Metaverse in a wide range of domains including industry, finance, medical care, smart cities, entertainment, education, and agriculture.

The conference solicits submissions from all research areas related to Metaverse computing, networking, as well as their corresponding systems and applications. Topics of interests are covered by the following tracks:
Track 1: Metaverse Architectures and Applications
- Architecture and system design
- Immersive services
- Digital twin modeling and rendering
- Animations and physical world simulations
- Model evolution, composition and library
- Holographic applications
- Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality
- Metaverse applications in different domains, such as industry, healthcare

Track 2: Networking and Communications
- Network architectures and design principles for metaverse
- Routing metrics and algorithms
- Rendezvous services for metaverse
- Resource control and allocation
- Network management
- Interactions between cyber and physical spaces
- Data center communications for metaverse
- Decentralized communications for metaverse
- Ultra-low-time communications for metaverse
- Green communications for metaverse
- Holographic communications
- B5G/6G for metaverse applications

Track 3: Metaverse Computing
- Cloud, edge, fog computing for metaverse
- Human-machine interface
- Artificial intelligence for metaverse
- Federated learning and analytics
- Machine learning and data mining for metaverse
- Collaborative computation and intelligence
- In-network computations
- Computation-driven architecture for metaverse
- Computing over mobile devices for metaverse
- Sensing and data processing

Track 4: Blockchain and Web 3.0
- Blockchain architecture for metaverse applications
- Decentralized consensus algorithms
- Smart contract and chain code
- NFT applications and protocols
- Distributed ledger technology theory and applications
- Web 3.0 architecture and applications
- Identity management and security for Web 3.0 and metaverse
- Decentralized storage and verification
- Semantic computing for metaverse
- Decentralized identifiers and user-centric design

Track 5: Security, Privacy, and Trust
- New cryptographic technologies for metaverse
- Data security and governance
- Privacy preserving technologies
- Policy and regulation compliance
- Trust management framework
- ID management, authentication and authorization
- Accountability for metaverse
- Zero-knowledge proof for metaverse
- Zero-trust architecture for metaverse

Track 6: Theories, Experiments and Evaluations
- Theoretical investigations on metaverse
- Optimization, game theory, incentive designs
- Simulators, testbeds, prototypes
- Implementations, and field experiments
- Verification of the existing knowledge
- Performance evaluation and modeling
- Quality of service and quality of experience
- Standardizations for metaverse

Regular Paper Submission Guidelines:
MetaCom 2023 invites submission of manuscripts with original research results that have not been previously published or posted on public websites or that are not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submitted manuscripts must be prepared according to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (double column, 10pt font, letter paper) and submitted in the PDF format. The manuscript submitted for review should be no longer than 8 pages. After the manuscript is accepted, the camera-ready paper may have up to 10 pages, subject to an additional fee per extra page. Reviewing will be double-blind. Submissions must not reveal the authors’ names and their affiliations and avoid obvious self-references. Manuscripts should be submitted to one of the research tracks. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE MetaCom 2023 Conference Proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore.
Submission Link: TBA

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission Due: 30 December 2022
Author Notification: 15 March 2023
Camera-Ready Due: 10 May 2023
Conference Dates: 26-28 June 2023

General Chairs:
Chonggang Wang, Interdigital, USA
Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

TPC Chairs:
Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan
Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy
Max (Chong) Li, Computecoin Network and Columbia University, USA