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Metaverse applications in different domains, such as industry, healthcare</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 2: Networking and Communications</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Network architectures and design principles for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Routing metrics and algorithms<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Rendezvous services for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Resource control and allocation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Network management<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Interactions between cyber and physical spaces</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Data center communications for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Decentralized communications for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Ultra-low-time communications for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Green communications for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Holographic communications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- B5G/6G for metaverse applications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 3: Metaverse Computing<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Cloud, edge, fog computing for metaverse<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Human-machine interface</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Artificial intelligence for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Federated learning and analytics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Machine learning and data mining for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Collaborative computation and intelligence</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- In-network computations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Computation-driven architecture for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Computing over mobile devices for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Sensing and data processing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 4: Blockchain and Web 3.0</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Blockchain architecture for metaverse applications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Decentralized consensus algorithms<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Smart contract and chain code</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- NFT applications and protocols</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Distributed ledger technology theory and applications<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Web 3.0 architecture and applications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Identity management and security for Web 3.0 and metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Decentralized storage and verification<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Semantic computing for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Decentralized identifiers and user-centric design<span style="background-color:rgb(238,255,255)"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 5: Security, Privacy, and Trust</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- New cryptographic technologies for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Data security and governance <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Privacy preserving technologies<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Policy and regulation compliance</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Trust management framework</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- ID management, authentication and authorization<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Accountability for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Zero-knowledge proof for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Zero-trust architecture for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 6: Theories, Experiments and Evaluations</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Theoretical investigations on metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Optimization, game theory, incentive designs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Simulators, testbeds, prototypes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Implementations, and field experiments<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Verification of the existing knowledge<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Performance evaluation and modeling</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Quality of service and quality of experience</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Standardizations for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Regular Paper Submission Guidelines:</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 7.5pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"MS PGothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;line-height:16.2pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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 <strong>double-blind</strong>. 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.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 7.5pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"MS PGothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;line-height:16.2pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission Link: TBA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paper Submission Due: 30 December 2022</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Author Notification: <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>15 March 2023</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camera-Ready Due: 10 May 2023</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference Dates:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">26-28 June 2023</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">General Chairs:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chonggang Wang, Interdigital, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">TPC Chairs:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Max (Chong) Li, Computecoin Network and Columbia University, USA</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>