Call for Papers: Special Issue on Metaverse Services

By seamlessly integrating the physical and the virtual worlds, metaverse offers a platform of a new social ecosystem, dealing with digital twins and empowering virtual-reality symbiosis, which has been widely regarded as one of the key enablers of our future society with profound social and economic impacts. Empowered by the new generation of digital technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), 5G/6G, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, software services engineering, and edge computing, metaverse applications and services hold the potential to revolutionize the way we live, work, transact, learn, and interact. Bridging the virtual space and the real world, such metaverse services are more complicated with unique characteristics and present many new challenges and research questions to service design, development, and governance. This special issue aims at highlighting the latest novel research efforts in advancing metaverse services. We seek original and high-quality submissions related to, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Metaverse service requirements, architecture and system design
• Service modeling, delivery, deployment and evolution for metaverse services
• User experience-oriented requirement engineering for metaverse services
• New paradigm of service engineering and methodology for metaverse services
• Cross-domain metaverse service interoperability
• Blockchain and metaverse services
• NFT and value engineering for metaverse services
• Quality of Experience and Quality of Service in metaverse
• Governance of metaverse service ecosystems
• Quality control for metaverse services
• Security, privacy, and trust frameworks for metaverse services
• Use cases of virtual-real-world metaverse service applications
• Metaverse processes management
• AI for metaverse services
• Metaverse as a service

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Due: Mar 31, 2025

Guest Editors

Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng (Lead Guest Editor), Macquarie University, Australia

Professor Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Professor Boualem Benatallah, Dublin City University, Ireland

Important Submission Instructions:

As of 20 November 2024, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing will use the IEEE Author Portal for all new submissions.

• If you have not yet started the submission process, please use the IEEE Author Portal to submit your article.
• If you have started a draft of your submission OR if you submitted your paper prior to the IEEE Author Portal launch, you will finish the peer review life cycle of submission(s) currently under review through ScholarOne Manuscripts. You do not need to submit a new manuscript. All new and future submissions will be submitted entirely through the IEEE Author Portal.

Please be sure to select “SI on Metaverse-Services” when you submit your article. Author guidelines are available at the IEEE TSC website http://www.computer.org/tsc. Every manuscript should be no more than 14 pages. Submitted manuscripts should not have been previously published nor be currently under review for publication elsewhere. Moreover, they should a provide minimum of 30% original technical contributions in comparison to previous publications.

Questions?

Questions, contact the Lead Guest Editor at michael.sheng@mq.edu.au