Cyberology: Cyber-Physical-Social-Thinking Spaces-Based Discipline and Interdiscipline Hierarchy for Metaverse (General Cyberspace)

Huansheng Ning, Yujia Lin, Wenxi Wang, Hang Wang, Feifei Shi, Xiaohong Zhang, Mahmoud Daneshmand

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Abstract

It is well known that the metaverse, also named general cyberspace (GC), is virtual-real fusion spaces, consisting of a virtual space, namely, cyberspace and virtual-real spaces, namely, cyber-enabled physical, social, and thinking (cyber-enabled) spaces. This article discusses the open issues of the metaverse in terms of science and technology and proposes a new discipline and interdiscipline hierarchy for the metaverse (GC), namely, cyberology first. Then, it explores various relevant standards of discipline classification and a discipline and interdiscipline hierarchy based on physical, social, and thinking spaces, and investigates the cyberspace and cyber-enabled spaces. On the basis of the above research, this article enriches the contents of cyberology in two terms: 1) the disciplines in cyberspace and 2) the interdisciplines in cyber-enabled spaces. Finally, this article gives predictions of cyberology on the future development of the metaverse from the aspects of cyber-physical space, cyber-social space and cyber-Thinking space.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4420-4430
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Internet of Things Journal
Volume10
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Mar 2023

Keywords

  • Cyber-enabled
  • cyberology
  • cyberspace
  • discipline
  • general cyberspace (GC)
  • interdiscipline
  • metaverse

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