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Call for Papers

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

Track 2: Networking and Communications

Track 3: Metaverse Computing

Track 4: Blockchain and Web 3.0

Track 5: Security, Privacy, and Trust

Track 6: Theories, Experiments and Evaluations

Best Paper Award and Journal Special Issues

Three accepted papers will be selected for best paper awards. . Selected papers will be recommended to Digital Communications and Networks (IF: 6.797) and Journal of Social Computing for potential fast-track publications.

1. Wi-Six: Precise Positioning in the Metaverse via Optimal Wi-Fi Router Deployment in 6G Networks
Alireza Famili, Tolga Atalay, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang (Virginia Tech, USA)
2. Multi-Server Stable Rendezvous for the Metaverse
Ningxin Su, Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada), Bo Li (University of Science and Technology, Hongkong)
3. A Game Theoretic Approach for Data Asset Protection in Metaverse
Yaqi Yang, Jinkai Zheng, Guanjie Li, Tom Luan (Xidian University, China), Zhou Su (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), Mianxiong Dong (Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)