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Submission deadline: 01-May-2026
Publication date (tentative): Q1, 2027
The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) is driving transformative changes across a variety of fields in the general scope of world simulations and communications, such as, film production, gaming, social media, training and education, virtual and augmented reality, customer services, immersive human computer interaction, and home entertainment applications. However, there are many remaining challenges and limitations in today’s GenAI advances, such as hallucination in text generation, inconsistency in video generation, camera control and direct ability in AI storytelling, quality and precision in 3D world acquisition, realistic look of generated human facial details, natural body mechanics simulations, natural human interactions simulation, physical norm understanding in human interactions with environment, just name a few.
This special section aims to foster breakthroughs and address critical problems of GenAI in various industries and applications that are relevant to world simulations and communications. We welcome submissions that examine the technical challenges and opportunities of GenAI, as well as the ethical and legal implications of using this technology.
The topics of this special section include, but are not limited to:
- Advances in generative AI models and representations, such as Diffusion models, neural fields, Gaussian splatting, etc.
- 3D world simulations from multi-modality, such as text, image, audio, video and graphics
- World communications via multi-modality, such as text, image, audio, video and graphics
- GenAI based multi-modal human interactions and communications
- GenAI based content representation, coding and communications
- Advances in GenAI Applications relevant to world simulations and communications
- Evaluation metrics and benchmarks for generative models
- Regulatory and policy frameworks relevant to generative AI for world simulations
- Economic impacts and business models enabled by generative AI for world simulations
We use this special section on Generative AI for World Simulations and Communications to honor Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos and celebrate 40 years of excellence in education. His enduring impact—advancing rigorous, interdisciplinary thinking across signal processing, learning, and multimedia systems—aligns closely with this issue’s focus on building models that can simulate the world, reason over information, and communicate effectively. This tribute recognizes both his scholarly leadership and his lasting legacy in mentoring researchers who drive trustworthy and scalable AI.
Submission Guidelines
Prospective authors should carefully review the scope of the special section and submit their manuscripts via the IEEE Author Portal submission system.
Important Dates
Open for submissions: May 1, 2026
Submissions due: August 1, 2026
Preliminary notification: October 1, 2026
Revisions due: October 15, 2026
Notification: October 31, 2026
Final manuscripts due: Nov. 15, 2026
Publication (tentative): Q1, 2027
Guest Editors
Haohong Wang (Lead GE), TCL, USA (haohongwang@gmail.com)
Sotirios A. Tsaearis, University of Edinburgh, UK (S.Tsaearis@ed.ac.uk)
Maggie Zhu, Purdue University, USA (zhu0@purdue.edu)
Joon Ki Paik, Chung-Ang University, Korea (paikj@cau.ac.kr)
Zhu Li, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA (lizhu@umkc.edu)
