TY - JOUR
T1 - Cyberology
T2 - Cyber-Physical-Social-Thinking Spaces-Based Discipline and Interdiscipline Hierarchy for Metaverse (General Cyberspace)
AU - Ning, Huansheng
AU - Lin, Yujia
AU - Wang, Wenxi
AU - Wang, Hang
AU - Shi, Feifei
AU - Zhang, Xiaohong
AU - Daneshmand, Mahmoud
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2023/3/1
Y1 - 2023/3/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Cyber-enabled
KW - cyberology
KW - cyberspace
KW - discipline
KW - general cyberspace (GC)
KW - interdiscipline
KW - metaverse
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U2 - 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3217821
DO - 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3217821
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85141536688
VL - 10
SP - 4420
EP - 4430
JO - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
JF - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IS - 5
ER -