International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom 2026)

Nov 6-10, 2026 · Xi'an, China.

http://www.metacomm.org/2026

The First International Workshop on Trustworthy Networked Intelligence for Metaverse Systems (TNI-Meta 2026)”

Call for Papers

Future metaverse systems will connect people, autonomous agents, digital twins, physical devices, and distributed computing resources across different network, service, and administrative domains. Supporting these systems requires not only high bandwidth and low latency, but also dependable identity, trustworthy data circulation, privacy protection, robust distributed intelligence, accountable automated decisions, and resilient operation across the cloud-edge-device continuum.

TNI-Meta 2026 provides a focused forum for researchers, industry practitioners, PhD students, and early-career researchers to discuss trust as an end-to-end property of metaverse computing and networking systems. The workshop connects communication networks, distributed artificial intelligence, blockchain-enabled trust, cross-border data governance, privacy-preserving computation, edge intelligence, digital twins, and 6G/AIoT. It especially welcomes work that studies how trust requirements can be designed, measured, enforced, and audited across data, model, network, service, and governance layers.

Topics

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

• Trustworthy AI-native networking for metaverse systems
• Secure, resilient, and self-adaptive metaverse network architectures
• Cross-border data governance, data sovereignty, and policy-aware networking
• Privacy-preserving, federated, split, and decentralized learning
• Blockchain, distributed ledgers, smart contracts, and decentralized trust
• Zero-trust architectures, identity, authentication, authorization, and reputation
• Data, model, content, and service provenance in immersive environments
• Accountability, auditability, and explainability of networked AI and autonomous agents
• Robustness against adversarial, poisoning, Byzantine, and model-manipulation attacks
• Dependable digital twins and secure physical-cyber synchronization
• Edge intelligence and trustworthy cloud-edge-device orchestration
• 6G, AIoT, semantic communications, and ultra-low-latency trusted services
• Trust metrics, risk models, verification, monitoring, and compliance automation
• Standards, interoperability, testbeds, benchmarks, and deployment experience

Description of the Review Process

Submissions will be reviewed using a proposed double-blind process. Each regular paper will receive at least two independent reviews based on technical quality, originality, relevance, clarity, reproducibility where applicable, and potential contribution to workshop discussion. Authors must remove names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and direct identifying information from the review manuscript. Conflicts of interest will be declared and managed by the organizers. Final review and publication procedures remain subject to MetaCom 2026 confirmation.

Submissions Guide

TNI-Meta 2026 invites original research papers, system and deployment studies, position papers, datasets, benchmarks, and early-stage research. Manuscripts must use the standard IEEE conference two-column format and be submitted in PDF.

• Regular papers: up to 6 pages, including figures, tables, and references.
• PhD and Early-Career Forum abstracts: up to 2 pages for lightning presentation and mentoring discussion.

Regular papers must contain original material that has not been previously published and is not under review elsewhere. Forum abstracts will be non-archival. Proceedings inclusion, IEEE Xplore submission, registration, copyright, and presentation requirements remain subject to the final MetaCom 2026 policy.

Organizing Chairs

• Yinfeng Cao – HKCT Institute of Higher Education / The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China – kevincao@ctihe.edu.hk; yinfeng.cao@connect.polyu.hk
• Yong Ding – HKCT Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong, China
• Bo Qu – HKCT Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong, China
• Zhiyuan Wen – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China – zhiyuan.wen@polyu.edu.hk
• Mingjin Zhang – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China – cs-mingjin.zhang@polyu.edu.hk

Important Dates

All deadlines are at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

• Paper submission deadline: 30 September 2026
• Notification of acceptance: 4 October 2026
• Camera-ready submission: 9 October 2026
• Workshop: one half-day during 6-10 November 2026

The exact workshop date and all paper-processing dates remain subject to final confirmation by MetaCom 2026.

Contact

For enquiries concerning TNI-Meta 2026, please contact:

Yinfeng Cao – HKCT Institute of Higher Education / The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China – kevincao@ctihe.edu.hk; yinfeng.cao@connect.polyu.hk

Conference Link

https://www.metacomm.org/2026/