Services Conference Federation (SCF 2025)
International Conference on Metaverse (METAVERSE 2025)
https://www.servicessociety.org/metaverse , September 27 - 30, 2025, Hong Kong, China
Theme: Services Agent for Metaverse
Introduction of METAVERSE
The Services Sector has account for 79.5% of the GDP of the United States in 2016. For the world's most services-oriented economy, its services sectors account for more than 90% of the GDP in Hong Kong. Currently, most of the services are traditional services (e.g. restaurant, travel, transportation, etc.) and digital services (e.g. Internet services, mobile services, digital transformation-enabled services, etc.). With the emergence of Metaverse, the current services will be gradually transformed into immersive services that construct digital worlds and connect with physical worlds. The immersive services are the core characteristics of the metaverse. To rapidly respond to the changing economy, the 2022 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2022) has been naturally extended to become the International Conference on Metaverse (METAVERSE 2022) to cover immersive services for all vertical industries and area solutions.
Sponsored by Services Society and Springer, SERVICES 2018 was successfully held on June 25 - June 30, 2018, in Seattle, USA. SERVICES 2019 was successfully held on June 25 - 30, 2019, in San Diego, USA. SERVICES 2020 and SERVICES 2021 were successfully held virtually over the Internet. Sponsored by Services Society and Springer, METAVERSE 2022 and METAVERSE 2023 were successfully held on December 10 - 14, 2022, and September 23 - 26, 2023, in Hawaii, USA. METAVERSE 2024 was successfully held on November 16 - 19, 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2025, we will celebrate our 2025 version of gathering, to strive to advance the largest international professional forum on industry services research and practices.
METAVERSE 2025 is a member of the Services Conference Federation (SCF). SCF 2025 will have the following 10 collocated service-oriented sister conferences: 2025 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2025), 2025 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2025), 2025 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2025), 2025 International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2025), 2025 International Conference on AI & Multimodal Services (AIMS 2025), and 2025 International Conference on Metaverse (METAVERSE 2025), 2025 International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT 2025), 2025 International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC 2025), 2025 International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2025), and 2025 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2025).
As the founding member of the Services Conference Federation (SCF), the first International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) was held in June 2003 in Las Vegas, USA. Meanwhile, the First International Conference on Web Services - Europe 2003 (ICWS-Europe 2003) was held in Germany in October 2003. ICWS-Europe'03 is an extended event of the 2003 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2003) in Europe. In 2004, ICWS-Europe was changed to the European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), which was held in Erfurt, Germany.
To celebrate its 22-year-old birthday, SCF 2025 will be held on September 27 - 30, 2025, in Hong Kong, China.
Conference Proceedings
The Proceedings of METAVERSE 2025 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer International Publishing AG. For all 10 collocated conferences of SCF 2025, the content of this proceedings volume will be made freely accessible to anyone in Springer’s digital library after four years upon publication.
Currently, the Abstracting and Indexing services covered by Springer’s data feeds for LNCS proceedings include ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in Web of Science), Engineering Index EI (Compendex and Inspec databases), DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, and ZBlMath.
The Best Paper Awards will be sponsored by Services Society and Springer, which is a leading global scientific, technical, and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions, and corporate R&D departments with quality content through innovative information, products, and services.
Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for special issues in the Services Transactions on Internet of Things (STIOT), Services Transactions on Big Data (STBD), Services Transactions on Services Computing (STSC), Services Transactions on Cloud Computing (STCC), International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR), and International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). IJBPIM is indexed by Scopus and IJWSR is indexed by SCI and EI [Link].
Extended versions of selected papers about security, privacy, and trust will be invited for special issues in Electronics (SCI, IF=2.6), Mathematics (SCI, IF=2.3), Sustainability (SCI, SSCI, IF=3.3), Remote Sensing (SCI, IF=5.0), ISPRS (SCI, IF=2.8), Cryptography (SCI, IF=1.8), Blockchains, etc. The details of the SI can be referred to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/topics/ELY82W061L
Extended versions of selected papers about artificial intelligence will be invited for special issues in AI (SCI, IF=3.1), Applied Sciences (SCI, IF=2.5), Designs, Electronics (SCI, IF=2.6), Mathematics (SCI, IF=2.3), Remote Sensing (SCI, IF=4.2), Sensors (SCI, IF=3.4), etc. The details of the SI can be referred to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/topics/FZ0U795IB1
Topics
The technical program of METAVERSE 2025 will include a Research Track, an Application Track, and a Short Paper Track. The METAVERSE 2025 tracks seek original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of vertical industry services and related technologies and applications. Research Track papers MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of vertical services industry in terms of technologies, applications, and solutions. All papers MUST properly cite related work in the field, such as those published in the proceedings of ICWS, SCC, CLOUD, BigData, METAVERSE, EDGE, ICIOT, ICCC, AIMS, ICBC, SERVICES, APSCC, ECOWS, and related journals including IJWSR and IJBPIM (see Literature Recommendations page).
METAVERSE 2025 hopes to attract researchers, practitioners, and industry business leaders in all the following services sectors to help define and shape the modernization strategy and directions of the services industry. You are invited to submit research, engineering, experience reports, case studies, empirical, evaluation, and business innovation papers on the following topics:
Metaverse Architectures and Infrastructure: Frameworks and technological building blocks for realizing scalable and efficient metaverse environments, focusing on integration, data, and intelligence.
User Interactions and Experience Design: Innovations in user interfaces, avatar customization, and immersive experiences for enhanced engagement.
Business Models and Scenarios: Strategies for monetization, enterprise applications, and metaverse-enabled business transformations across various industries.
Service Ecosystems in the Metaverse: Development of service components, virtual service stores, and strategies for delivering high-quality services within the metaverse.
Security, Privacy, and Governance: Addressing challenges in data security, user privacy, and governance frameworks for metaverse platforms.
Applications in Vertical Service Industries: Metaverse applications in healthcare, education, finance, real estate, retail, energy, government, and entertainment sectors, with case studies and domain-specific innovations.
Cross-Industry Metaverse Solutions: Collaborative strategies for supply chain management, enterprise resource planning, marketing, and human resource management using metaverse platforms.
Quality of Services and Standards: Ensuring performance reliability, user satisfaction, and adherence to standards across metaverse services.
Integration with Advanced Technologies: Leveraging AI, blockchain, VR/AR, and IoT to enhance metaverse applications and interoperability.
Future Directions and Modernization Strategies: Exploring trends, research, and practical insights to shape the modernization of the services industry through metaverse innovations.
Paper Submissions
All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted and presented papers from all METAVERSE tracks will appear in the conference proceedings.
Submitted Research Track and Application Track manuscripts will be limited to 15 pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the LNCS Proceedings template ( WORD, Latex ). Submitted Short Paper track manuscripts will be limited to 8 (LNCS Proceedings style) pages. The authors can extend a maximum of 2 pages for each paper but will have to pay extra fees for each extra page. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the maximum page limit may not be reviewed.
Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and review process can be found at the conference site.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at METAVERSE 2025. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student.
Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing on applications or solutions may be recommended to the Application Track or other tracks for further consideration if the session slots are available.
METAVERSE 2025 Submission
METAVERSE 2025 Research Track
METAVERSE 2025 Application and Industry Track
METAVERSE 2025 Short Paper Track
For other co-located conferences, you can find detailed submission instructions and links on the Submission page.
Important Dates
Research Track/Application Track/Short Paper Track:
Early-birds paper submission due: March 20, 2025
Review comments to Early-birds paper submission: April 20, 2025
Regular paper submission due: June 21, 2025
Review comments to Regular paper submission: July 20, 2025
Camera-ready manuscripts due: July 27, 2025
Conference dates: September 27 - 30, 2025
Organizing Committee
METAVERSE 2025 Organizing Committee
Program Chairs
Prof. Shiping Chen, CSIRO Data61 & UNSW
Dr. Shiping Chen is a principal research scientist in CSIRO Data61. He also holds an conjoint Professor with the University of New Suouth Wales (UNSW) and Macquarie University. He has been working on distributed systems for over 20 years with focus on performance and security. He has published 240+ research papers and technical reports in these areas. He has been actively participating in research communities through publishing papers, journal editorships and conference PC/Chair services. His current research interests include: application security, blockchain and service-oriented trusted collaboration. He is a Fellow of Institute of Engineering Technology (FIET) and a senior member of the IEEE (SMIEEE).
Program Chairs
Prof. Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Jun Feng is an Associate Professor in the School of Cyber Science and Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received the PhD in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He has published more than 40 papers in top journals and conferences (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, AAAI, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Information Sciences, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology). He is particularly interested in privacy-preserving machine learning, differential privacy, artificial intelligence security and privacy, deep learning, and big data.
Program Chairs
Prof. Yinbin Miao, Xidian University
Professor Yinbin Miao, from the School of Network and Information Security, is a professor and a doctoral/master’s supervisor. He has published over 50 CCF A-level papers as the first or corresponding author. He has led several key projects, including the Young Scientist Project of the Key R&D Program, the General/Young Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Key R&D Projects of Shaanxi Province, the Special Funding Project for Postdoctoral Researchers in Shaanxi, the China Postdoctoral Special Funding Project, the CCF-Tencent Rhino Bird Research Fund, and the CCF-NSFOCUS Kunpeng Research Fund, among others. He has also been selected for the “Hong Kong Scholar Program.”
His research focuses on data security and privacy protection in cloud computing and wireless network environments, covering areas such as big data security and privacy protection, blockchain security, and artificial intelligence security.
Application and Industry Track Chairs
Mr. Jiacai Lai, Peking University (Tianjin Binhai) New Generation Information Technology Research Institute
Mr. Lai Jiacai is a specially invited expert at the Peking University (Tianjin Binhai) Institute of New Generation Information Technology. He graduated from the computer science programs at Tsinghua University and Peking University successively. Holding the titles of senior economist, senior engineer, and Senior Information System Project Management Professional, he is also a member of the Science Popularization Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, a specially invited expert at the Zhongke Think Tank Research Institute, a director of the China International Association for Promoting Innovation of Science and Technology, an industry tutor for the Master of Digital Economy (MDE) program at the School of Economics, Minzu University of China, and an adjunct research fellow at the School of Information Engineering, Peking University. Engaged in the research, application, and dissemination of digital technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence, Mr. Lai Jiacai is a renowned science communicator. He has served as the chief editor of books including Digital Empowerment for High - Quality Development, Industrial Metaverse, Development, Application and Security of Fintech, and Development and Security of the Digital Economy, all of which were published by the People's Publishing House.
Application and Industry Track Chairs
Dr. Tiehua Zhang, Tongji University
Dr. Tiehua Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor at Tongji University. He earned his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in Computer Science from Jilin University, The University of Melbourne, and Swinburne University of Technology, respectively. Dr. Zhang has extensive experience in both industry and academia, having served as a Systems Development Engineer at Our Community Group in Australia, a Visiting Scientist at KDDI Research in Japan, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Macquarie University in Australia, and as the International Risk Algorithm Architect/Lead at Ant Group. Dr. Zhang's main research areas include distributed collaborative learning, graph learning and relation mining, edge intelligence and service provisions. He has published over 40 papers in prominent international journals and conferences, including TOSEM, TII, IoT-J, TAI, NeurIPS, ICDE, MM, and ICSOC etc, and holds more than 10 international/domestic patents. His research has been honored with several awards, including the Swinburne Outstanding Thesis Award and the Research Excellence Award (HDR) etc. Dr. Zhang has been recognized as a Shanghai High-Level Talent (Overseas), Shanghai Science & Technology 35 under 35, and Shanghai Pudong New Area Pearl Elite Talent.
Operations Committee
Dr. Jing Zeng, China Gridcom Co., Ltd.
Dr. Yishuang Ning, Tsinghua University
Dr. Sheng He, Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd.
Dr. Zhuolin Mei, Jiujiang University
METAVERSE 2025 Program Committee
Dr. Ben Falchuk, Peraton Labs
Dr. Xinxin Fan, IoTeX
Dr. Hasan Ali Ali Khattak, National University of Sciences and Technology
Dr. LiJun Li, Guizhou University of Commerce
Dr. Stefano Sebastio, Raytheon Technologies
Dr. Gang Wang, University of Connecticut
Dr. Lei Xu, Kent State University
Mr. Artem Barger, Idea Blockchain Research Lab
Mr., Venkata Suman Doma, Deloitte
Mr. Atheer Alaa Hammad, Sr, Ministry of Education
Mr. Vikas S Shah, Knights of Columbus
Mr. Ikbal Taleb, Zayed University
Mr. Fusang Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ms. Ge Wang, Xi‘an Jiaotong University
Prof. Xiaohu Fan, Wuhan Collage
As part of the Services Conference Federation (SCF 2025), we are still looking for passionate and dedicated individuals to join the organizing committees.
Contact Information
For any inquiries regarding the METAVERSE conference, please feel free to reach out to us: services AT ServicesSociety DOT org
For other questions about the SCF conferences: confs AT ServicesSociety DOT org
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