<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US">*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US">=====================================================</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US">******************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom 2023), June 26-28, 2023, Kyoto, Japan</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023" target="_blank">http://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US">******************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Author Notification:  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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference Dates: </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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">MetaCom </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Computing, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Networking, and Applications for Metaverse. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Scope and Objectives:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Metaverse is one of the key enablers for the future society, which </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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 <span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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.</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 1: Metaverse Architectures and Applications</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Architecture and system design</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Immersive services</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Digital twin modeling and rendering</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Animations and physical world simulations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Model evolution, composition and library</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Holographic applications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Metaverse applications in different domains, such as industry, healthcare</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Routing metrics and algorithms</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Network management</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Holographic communications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 3: Metaverse Computing</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Cloud, edge, fog computing for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Human-machine interface</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- In-network computations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Decentralized consensus algorithms</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Distributed ledger technology theory and applications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Decentralized storage and verification</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Decentralized identifiers and user-centric design<span style="color:black;background:rgb(238,255,255)"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Data security and governance </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Privacy preserving technologies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Trust management framework</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- ID management, authentication and authorization</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Accountability for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Simulators, testbeds, prototypes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Implementations, and field experiments</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Verification of the existing knowledge</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Standardizations for metaverse</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm 0mm 7.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"\00ff2d\00ff33  \00ff30\0030b4\0030b7\0030c3\0030af""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">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:0mm 0mm 7.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height:16.2pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"\00ff2d\00ff33  \00ff30\0030b4\0030b7\0030c3\0030af""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Author Notification:  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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference Dates: </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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">General Chairs:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chonggang Wang, Interdigital, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><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:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">TPC Chairs:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Max (Chong) Li, Computecoin Network and Columbia University, USA</span></p></div>