IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse: Applications and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, researchers throughout academia and industry have been advancing the theory, operation, and applications of the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and Metaverse. IoT plays an important role in ubiquitous smart objects interacting and exchanging data to improve people’s quality of life in various areas, such as transportation, manufacturing industry, health care industry, etc. AI based on deep learning and big data has been widely used in natural language processing, image recognition, etc. Metaverse, an evolving paradigm of the next-generation Internet, seamlessly integrates the real world with the virtual world by using virtual reality and augmented reality. Innovative research on how IoT and AI can make a valuable contribution to the Metaverse is needed.

This Special Issue aims to encourage researchers to study advanced methods, key technologies and vital applications of IoT, AI and Metaverse; we especially encourage research fusing IoT and AI with Metaverse, such as IoT and AI applications in the virtual world.

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

• Crowd intelligence and service ecosystems;
• Service intelligence framework in the cyber-physical-social Metaverse;
• Virtual–reality interaction for Metaverse service intelligence;
• Deep/federated-learning-based Metaverse service intelligence;
• Cloud/edge computation for IoT networks;
• Intelligent system modeling and optimization;
• Intelligent IoT pattern recognition;
• Applications and use cases.

Prof. Dr. Zhangbing Zhou
Prof. Dr. Patrick Hung
Prof. Dr. Xiao Xue
Dr. Yuzhu Wang
Guest Editors

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