January 2026 newsletter
Dear IAOA members,
Below, you will find the news and announcements of our October 2025 newsletter.
If you have information to share with the IAOA’s community, e.g., scientific events you wish to advertise, please do not hesitate to contact us (calendars@iaoa.org).
Best,
The Executive Council of the IAOA
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IAOA ANNOUNCEMENTS
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*16th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems,
21–25 September 2026, Vitória, ES, Brazil
https://foisconference.org/
• Mandatory abstract submission: 16 March 2026 (strict)
• Paper submission: 23 March 2026 (strict)
• Rebuttal period: 6–13 May 2026
• Notifications: 27 May 2026
• Camera-ready submission: 17 June 2026
• Virtual conference: 9 September 2026
• Onsite conference: 21–25 September 2026
Stay tuned for deadlines for other FOIS 2026 calls:
• Journal-first papers (call available)
• Ontology Show Case (soon!)
• Demonstrations (soon!)
• Early Career Symposium (soon!)
• Research Projects (soon!)
• Tutorials (soon!)
*JOWO 2026 Episode XII: The Tropical Spring of Ontology within FOIS 2026
Stay tuned for updates on workshop at JOWO!
*IAOA Fellowship:
The IAOA [1] has established an award of honorary fellowships [2] in order to recognize distinguished scholars in the field of applied ontology.
IAOA Fellows will have contributed significantly and in a sustained manner to the field of applied ontology, for example by outstanding scientific achievements, which often goes hand-in-hand with their strong dedication and service to the community.
Their selection is subject to an annual process based on nominations from the community.
For 2026, we solicit nominations by March 31, 2026 (Tuesday, UTC-12).
Please send nominations to [3] info@iaoa.org, thereby consequentially reaching the selection committee. Complete details on the process are specified in the IAOA’s Fellowship Procedure [4], an excerpt of which describing the nomination requirements is copied below.
The 2026 selection committee consists of
– Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands
– Janna Hastings, Idiap Research Institute, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
– Frank Loebe, Leipzig University, Germany
– Claudio Masolo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
– Fabian Neuhaus, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
We look forward to each of your nominations. Please observe the basic rules below carefully to make valid nominations. Many thanks in advance for all efforts!
[1] International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA)
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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*Composition, Constitution, Construction
6 February 2026, Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Aula Mazzariol, TiPS center at Ca’Foscari University
https://www.unive.it/web/en/7380/home
*First Swiss Colloquium on Applied Ontology (SCAO 2026)
Neuchâtel on February 5–6, 2026
https://swissonto.ch/scao2026/
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UPCOMING DEADLINES
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*1st International Workshop on Quality in Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs In conjunction with EDBT/ICDT 2026 (QuaLLM-KG @ EDBT/ICDT 2026)
24 March 2026, Tampere, Finland
https://quallmkg2026.github.io/
**Submission deadline: January 25th, 2026
**Notification: February 8th, 2026
** Camera-ready: February 20th, 2026
*Ninth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story’26)
Held in conjunction with the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’26)
April 2nd, 2026 – Delft, The Netherlands
https://text2story26.inesctec.pt
**Submission Deadline: January 23rd, 2026
**Acceptance Notification: February 28th, 2026
**Camera-ready copies: March 15th, 2026
**Workshop: April 2nd, 2026
*The Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Futures (AI4CHIEF)
April 16-17, 2026, Paris, France
https://ai4chief.roc.cnam.fr/
**Submission deadline: January 30, 2026.
**Notification to authors: Feb. 28, 2026
**Authors registration deadline: March 10, 2026
**Camera-ready deadline: March 15, 2026
Selected presented papers will be invited for submission to the Digital Transformation and Society journal(https://www.emerald.com/dts)
*8th Games, Agents, and Incentives Workshop
(GAIW)@AAMAS 2026
https://gtep-workshops.github.io/gaiw2026/
**Submission Deadline: February 4, 2026 (AoE)
**Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2026
**Camera Ready: TBD (AoE)
** Workshop: May 26, 2026
*32nd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2026) 24-28 August, 2026, Pisa, Italy
https://2026.euro-par.org
For workshop and minisymposium organisers:
**Proposals due: 6 February 2026 (AoE)
**Notifications: 27 February 2026
**Workshop website online & Call for Workshop Papers: 13 March 2026
**Workshop & minisymposium dates: 24-25 August 2026
**Workshop & minisymposium management report due: 15 September 2026
*AI, Consciousness & Ethics (AICE), Symposium at AISB26,
1-2 July 2026, Sussex University
http://www.aisb.org.uk/
** 28 February 2026: Submission deadline
** 21March 2026: Authors notification
** 28 April 2026: Camera-ready deadline
*23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
10-14 May 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia
https://2026.eswc-conferences.org/
For Posters and Demos Track of ESWC 2026
**Submission deadline: March 03, 2026
**Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026
**Camera-ready final version: April 15, 2026
* 37th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA2026)
August 11-13, 2026, Graz, Austria
https://www.dexa.org/2026/dexa2026
**Paper submission: 15 March 2026
**Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2026
**Camera-ready copies due: 5 June 2026
**Authors Registration deadline: 10 June 2026
**Conference days: 11-13 August 2026
*10th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2026)
24 – 26 August, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania
https://2026.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/cfp
**May 8th, 2026 (AoE): Title and Abstract Submission
**May 15th, 2026 (AoE): Paper Submission
**June 26th, 2026 (AoE): Notification of Acceptance
**August 24th-26th, 2026: Conference
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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[1] calendar: “IAOA Check Events” https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=iaoa.member@googlemail.com
[2] calendar: “IAOA Check Deadlines” https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=os3b7er3ad4ela965ggjoa7u80@group.calendar.google.com
[3] https://iaoa.org
[4] https://iaoa.org/index.php/calendar/events/
[5] info@iaoa.org
[6] iaoa-member@ovgu.de
[7] calendars@iaoa.org