[Python-Belgium] CfP: IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023 - Special Session on: "EXTENDED REALITY AS A GATEWAY TO THE METAVERSE: PRACTICES, THEORIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS"

Mon Mar 6 05:01:32 EST 2023

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Call for Papers
Special Session on: “EXTENDED REALITY AS A GATEWAY TO THE METAVERSE:
PRACTICES, THEORIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS” 
https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 

2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality,
Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) 
https://metroxraine.org/ 

October 25-27, 2023 - Milan, Italy. 

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SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION

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The fast development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and
Mixed Reality (MR) solutions over the last few years are transforming how
people interact, work, and communicate. The eXtended Reality (XR) term
encloses all those immersive technologies that can shift the boundaries
between digital and physical worlds to realize the metaverse. According to
tech companies and venture capitalists, the metaverse will be a
super-platform that convenes sub-platforms: social media, online video
games, and ease-of-life apps, all accessible through the same digital space
and sharing the same digital economy. Inside the metaverse, virtual worlds
will allow avatars to carry out all human endeavours, including creation,
display, entertainment, social, and trading. Thus, the metaverse will evolve
how users interact with brands, intellectual properties, health services,
cultural heritage, and each other things on the Internet. A user could join
friends to play a multiplayer game, watch a movie via a streaming service
and then attend a university course precisely the same as in the real world.

The metaverse development will require new software architecture that will
enable decentralized and collaborative virtual worlds. These self-organized
virtual worlds will be permanent and will require maintenance operations. In
addition, it will be necessary to design an efficient data management system
and prevent privacy violations. Finally, the convergence of physical
reality, virtually enhanced, and an always-on virtual space highlighted the
need to rethink the actual paradigms for visualization, interaction, and
sharing of digital information, moving toward more natural, intuitive,
dynamically customizable, multimodal, and multi-user solutions.

This special session aims to focus on exploring how the realization of the
metaverse can transform certain application domains such us: (i) healthcare,
in which the metaverse solutions can, for instance, improve the
communication between patients and physicians; (ii) cultural heritage, with
potentially more effective solutions for tourism guidance, site maintenance,
and heritage object conservation; and (iii) industry, where to enable
data-driven decision making, smart maintenance, and overall asset
optimisation.

More information can be found here:
https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 

TOPICS

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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Hardware/Software Architectures for metaverse

- Decentralized and Collaborative Architectures for metaverse

- Interoperability for metaverse

- Tools to help creators to build the metaverse

- Operations and Maintenance in metaverse

- Data security and privacy mechanisms for metaverse

- Cryptocurrency, token, NFT Solutions for metaverse

- Fraud-Detection in metaverse

- Cyber Security for metaverse

- Data Analytics to Identify Malicious Behaviors in metaverse

- Blockchain/AI technologies in metaverse

- Emerging Technologies and Applications for metaverse

- New models to evaluate the impact of the metaverse

- Interactive Data Exploration and Presentation in metaverse

- Human-Computer Interaction for metaverse

- Human factors issues related to metaverse

- Proof-of-Concept in Metaverse: Experimental Prototyping and Testbeds

IMPORTANT DATES

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Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2023.  **NOTE that the abstract
should be 1 - 2 pages.

Final Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2023.

Full Paper Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2023

Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2023

SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS

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Authors should prepare an Abstract (1 - 2 pages) that clearly indicates the
originality of the contribution and the relevance of the work. The Abstract
should include the title of the paper, names and affiliations of the
authors, an abstract, keywords, an introduction describing the nature of the
problem, a description of the contribution, the results achieved and their
applicability.

As an alternative to the traditional abstract, it is possible to submit a
Graphical Abstract. For further information, please see here:
https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions.

When the first review process has been completed, authors receive a
notification of either acceptance or rejection of the submission. If the
abstract has been accepted, the authors can prepare a full paper.

The format for the full paper is identical to the format for the abstract
except for the number of pages: the full paper has a required minimum length
of five (5) pages and a maximum of six (6) pages.

Full Papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Authors of
accepted full papers must submit the final paper version according to the
deadline, register for the workshop, and attend to present their papers. The
maximum length for final papers is 6 pages.

All contributions will be peer-reviewed and acceptance will be based on
quality, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for
inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Submissions must be written in English and prepared according to the IEEE
Conference Proceedings template. LaTeX and Word templates and an Overleaf
sample project can be found at:
https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions.

The papers must be submitted in PDF format electronically via EDAS online
submission and review system: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30746.

To submit abstracts or draft papers to the special session, please follow
the submission instructions for regular sessions, but remind to specify the
special session to which the paper is directed.

The special session organizers and other external reviewers will review all
submissions.

More information can be found here:
https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on
quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for
inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Extended versions of presented papers are eligible for post-publication;
more information will be provided soon.

ORGANIZERS

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Giuseppe Caggianese

National Research Council of Italy

giuseppe.caggianese at .cnr.it <mailto:giuseppe.caggianese at .cnr.it> 

Ugo Erra

University of Basilicata

ugo.erra at unibas.it <mailto:ugo.erra at unibas.it> 

Luigi Gallo

National Research Council of Italy

luigi.gallo at cnr.it <mailto:luigi.gallo at cnr.it> 

For any questions related to the special session, please feel free to
contact us via email.

Dott. Mattia Occhipinti

SESAR Lab - Computer Science Department

Università degli Studi di Milano

Via Celoria, 18

20133 Milano – ITALY

Tel. +39-02-503 16214

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