Lecture Notes in Computer Science METAVERSE 2023

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Metaverse, METAVERSE 2023, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, during September 23–26, 2023. The 9 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Metaverse, METAVERSE 2023, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, during September 23–26, 2023. The 9 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: answer set programming; metaverse engineering foundations and applications, with a focus on novel approaches for engineering requirements, design and architectures, testing, maintenance and evolution, model-driven development, software processes, metrics, quality assurance and new software economics models, search-based software engineering, benefiting day-to-day services sectors and derived through experiences, with appreciation to scale, pragmatism, transparency, compliance and/or dependability.