@article{RitterbuschTeichmann2023,
  author    = {Ritterbusch, Georg David and Teichmann, Malte Rolf},
  title     = {Defining the metaverse},
  series = {IEEE Access},
  volume    = {11},
  journal   = {IEEE Access},
  publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
  address   = {New York, NY},
  issn      = {2169-3536},
  doi       = {10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3241809},
  pages     = {12368 -- 12377},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {The term Metaverse is emerging as a result of the late push by multinational technology conglomerates and a recent surge of interest in Web 3.0, Blockchain, NFT, and Cryptocurrencies. From a scientific point of view, there is no definite consensus on what the Metaverse will be like. This paper collects, analyzes, and synthesizes scientific definitions and the accompanying major characteristics of the Metaverse using the methodology of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). Two revised definitions for the Metaverse are presented, both condensing the key attributes, where the first one is rather simplistic holistic describing "a three-dimensional online environment in which users represented by avatars interact with each other in virtual spaces decoupled from the real physical world". In contrast, the second definition is specified in a more detailed manner in the paper and further discussed. These comprehensive definitions offer specialized and general scholars an application within and beyond the scientific context of the system science, information system science, computer science, and business informatics, by also introducing open research challenges. Furthermore, an outlook on the social, economic, and technical implications is given, and the preconditions that are necessary for a successful implementation are discussed.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{SahlmannSchefflerSchnor2018,
  author    = {Sahlmann, Kristina and Scheffler, Thomas and Schnor, Bettina},
  title     = {Ontology-driven Device Descriptions for IoT Network Management},
  series = {2018 Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS)},
  journal   = {2018 Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS)},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address   = {New York},
  isbn      = {978-1-5386-6451-3},
  doi       = {10.1109/GIOTS.2018.8534569},
  pages     = {295 -- 300},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {One particular challenge in the Internet of Things is the management of many heterogeneous things. The things are typically constrained devices with limited memory, power, network and processing capacity. Configuring every device manually is a tedious task. We propose an interoperable way to configure an IoT network automatically using existing standards. The proposed NETCONF-MQTT bridge intermediates between the constrained devices (speaking MQTT) and the network management standard NETCONF. The NETCONF-MQTT bridge generates dynamically YANG data models from the semantic description of the device capabilities based on the oneM2M ontology. We evaluate the approach for two use cases, i.e. describing an actuator and a sensor scenario.},
  language  = {en}
}