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[DMANET] [CFP] First IEEE International Conference on Meta Computing (ICMC) 2023

First IEEE International Conference on Meta Computing (ICMC)

October 12-15, 2023 Qingdao China

Over the past 60 years, computing paradigms have undergone significant
developments, evolving from the original Client-Server model to newer ones
such as Cloud Computing, IoT (Internet of Things), and Edge Computing. The
development history of computing paradigms is also the development history
of computing power, which is defined to be the amount of information that
can be transmitted, processed, and stored by a system, as novel computing
technologies have always been driven by the needs of new applications that
demand stronger computing power. Nowadays, emerging applications such as
Web 3.0, Metaverse, and Industrial Internet put forward demands on
next-generation computing technologies that can consolidate the networking
resources to provide the desired quality of services, overcoming the
increasingly serious computing power shortage problem.

Meta Computing was proposed to address the limitations faced by existing
computing paradigms: 1) terminal-end IoT resources are not fully exploited;
2) there exist barriers to the integration of network-wide computing power;
and 3) there is a lack of strong fault tolerance. It aims to utilize all
available computing resources hooked on the Internet, provide efficient,
fault-tolerant, and personalized services with strong security and privacy
guarantee, and virtualize the whole Internet as a giant computer, that is,
``Network-as-a-Computer, NaaC'', or ``Meta Computer'' for short, for any
task or any person at any time on-demand. Meta computing possesses the
following three functional characteristics: supporting zero-trust
environments, integrating all available cloud-edge-terminal computing
resources, and configuring meta computers on-demand. To the emerging
applications such as Web 3.0 and Metaverse , meta computing intends to
turn the Internet into a distributed giant computing power pool to fulfill
the ever-increasing needs on computing power; it also refers to the
integrated technologies that can offer trust-worthy, fault-tolerant, and
easy-to-use computing techniques.

IEEE International Conference on Meta Computing (ICMC) solicits original
submissions that present innovative research and development outcomes in
the field of meta computing. Topics of interests are covered by the
following tracks:

Track 1: Meta Computing Architectures and Systems

l Meta computer architecture

l Computational resource virtualization

l Resource scheduling mechanism of meta computer

l Computation-storage-communication integration

l Decentralized storage system

l Verifiable and Heterogeneous computation

l Security and privacy of meta computing

Track 2: Cloud-Edge-Terminal Resource Consolidation and Intelligence in
Meta Computing

l Resource management and scheduling

l Privacy protection

l Integration of edge computing with terminals

l Terminal computation

l Large-scale data processing and storage

l Data management and security

l Collaborative decision

l Network architecture and transmission

l Real-time computation

l Multimedia processing

Track 3: Blockchain, fault-tolerance, and Zero-trust Computing

l Blockchain architectures and systems

l Consensus and trust management

l Security and privacy for blockchain

l Fault-tolerant systems

l Trusted data space

l Data and blockchain integration

l Zero-trust computing architectures and systems

l Blockchain governance and regulatory

Track 4: Meta Computing for Web 3.0, DApp, Defi

l Decentralized web infrastructure

l Decentralized solutions for web identity and authentication

l Decentralized solutions for digital asset management and ownership

l Decentralized data storage and sharing

l Smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps) in Web 3.0

l Interoperability and standardization in Web 3.0

l Privacy and security in Web 3.0

l Web 3.0 applications

Track 5: Meta Computing for Metaverse

l Network architecture and system design for metaverse

l Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality

l Decentralized communications for metaverse

l Privacy and security for metaverse

l Interactions between cyber and physical spaces

l Trusted network architecture for metaverse

l Scalability and interoperability

l Metaverse applications

Track 6: Meta Computing for Industrial Internet and Internet-of-Things

l Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architecture and design principles

l IIoT security and privacy

l Big data analytics for IIoT

l Edge and cloud computing for IIoT

l IIoT applications

l Intelligent control and automation in IIoT

l Industrial wireless networks and communication protocols

l Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) 和 Industry 4.0

*Important Dates:*

Paper Submission: August 15, 2023

Notification: September 15, 2023

Camera-ready Submission: October 1, 2023

*Proceedings of ICMC 2023: *

Two options: IEEExplore or the Elsevier High-confidence Computing Journal.
Both are EI-indexed, and authors have the freedom to select one.

*Submission Guidelines*

Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icmc20231

It is required that the manuscript follows the standard IEEE camera-ready
format (double column, 10-pt font). The maximum length of ICNC paper
without over-length charge is SIX (6) page. The authors are allowed to pay
for up to TWO (2) additional pages at $100 per over length page. Submitted
papers may not have been previously published in or under consideration for
publication in another journal of conference.

*General Chair: *

Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China

Xiuzhen Cheng, Shandong University, China

*Program Co-Chairs*

Falko Dressler, TU Berlin, Germany

Mohsen Guizani, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
(MBZUAI),

United Arab Emirates

Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia

*Publicity Co-Chairs:*

Suparna De, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Yan Huang, Kennesaw State University, USA

Minghui Xu, Shandong University, China

*Proceeding Chair:*

Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA

*Publication Chair:*

Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA

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