FOIS 2026 Highlights
A big thank you to all of those who contributed to the organization of the 2026 edition of FOIS and JOWO (organization).
Special thanks to the local organizing committee for the wonderful event and warm welcome in Vitória.
Highlights:
– IAOA Fellows 2027: Deborah Louise McGuinness and Riichiro Mizoguchi
– Best FOIS paper: Adding an Epistemic Layer to DOLCE, Claudio Masolo, Daniele Porello, Stefano Borgo, Roberta Ferrario, Alessandro Mosca, Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Rossella Stufano and Walter Terkaj
– Best FOIS student paper: What Does ODRL Mean? A Cross-Level Ontological Grounding of Permissions, Prohibitions, and Duties in UFO-L, Daham M. Mustafa, Christoph Lange, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Diego Collarana, Christoph Quix and Stefan Decker
– Best FOIS runner-up student paper: Axiomatizing Industrial Reference Data: A BFO/IOF-Core Enrichment of ISO 15926-4 Equipment Classes, Nicolau O. Santos, Cauã Antunes, Mara Abel, João Netto
– FOIS 2026 proceedings in open access
– FOIS and JOWO 2027: they will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, 6-10 September 2027 (more information soon).
Photo – concluding greetings in Vitória
From left to right: Pedro Pignaton Negri, Vitor Souza, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Tiago Prince Sales, João Paulo A. Almeida