3rd IEEE International Workshop on Digital Twins for the Metaverse (DT4Meta 2025)

Call for Papers

The synchronized virtual replication of physical objects from the real world within the “Metaverse” is happening through innovative technologies such as VR/XR and Digital Twins. The new frontier of the Metaverse is to reproduce real scenes with the digital reconstruction of objects, reflecting at the same time their behavioral and physical properties, integrated with new features.

The design and integration of Digital Twins into the Metaverse represent a new open field of research that aims at the evolution of a new way of conceiving the world. The creation of Smart Scenes integrated with the Digital Twin models can be used in many fields, such as training, Industry 4.0, or Health, to name a few. A main problem faced in the creation and use of these applications involves the need for a high-level quantity of physical resources for the processing of the Digital Twin with the associated textures and metadata.

The new challenge is to create Optimized Smart Scenes, safely integrated into the Metaverse based on the Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing and Distributed Network Systems paradigms. Users must have a digital identity before accessing the Smart Scenes and must follow the ethical rules for establishing social relationships within the Metaverse.

Scope of the workshop

The workshop aims to disseminate publishable and applicable results, promoting discussions and collaborations, and to identify future research directions for Digital Twins and Metaverse. 

Topics include (but are not limited to) the following: 

  • Digital-Twins Life Cycle
  • Optimized Framework Definition for Digital Twins
  • Cooperation and Interaction between Digital Twins and Humans in Metaverse
  • Practical validation and case studies of Digital Twins in Metaverse
  • Privacy and Security Issues and Opportunities
  • Digital Twin as a Service
  • Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing Solutions for Optimized Smart Scene with DT in Metaverse
  • Real-World Deployments and Experimentations of digital twins
  • Distributed Network Solution for Optimized Smart Scenes. 

Workshop Chairs

Maria Fazio
MIFT Department, University of Messina, Italy
Email: mfazio@unime.it

Zhaohui Yang
College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, China,
Email: yang_zhaohui@zju.edu.cn

Yuchen Liu
Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, USA
Email: yliu322@ncsu.edu

Valeria Lukaj
Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Italy
Email: vlukaj@unime.it

Radu Prodan
Institute of Information Technology, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Email: radu.prodan@aau.at

Program Committee

Zaheer Allam
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

GaganGeet Singh Aujla
Durham University, UK

Simon Elias Bibri
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Antonio Celest
University of Messina, Italy

João C. E. Ferreira
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Luis N. L. de Lacalle
University of the Basque Country, Spain

Attila Kertesz
University of Szeged, Hungary

Dragi Kimovski
University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Andreas Lazarou
University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Michele Perlino
University of Bologna, Italy

Nishant Saurabh
University of Twente, Netherlands

Important Dates

UPDATED: Full symposium papers due
January 31, February 15, February 28, 2025

Symposium paper notification
April 7, 2025

Workshop papers due
April 15, 2025

Workshop papers notification
May 1, 2025

Camera-ready copy
June 1, 2025

Conference Dates
July 8-11, 2025

Paper Templates

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