Dear IAOA members,
Below you find the news and announcements of our February 2025 newsletter.
If you have information to share with the IAOA’s community, e.g., scientific events that 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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FOIS 2025 and JOWO Episode XI
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15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), and
Joint Ontology Workshops Episode XI (JOWO): The Sicilian Summer under the Etna.
Website: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/
WHEN:
– 4-5 September 2025 (virtual conference)
– September 8-12, 2025 (onsite events; JOWO + FOIS)
WHERE:
– University of Catania, Italy
SOME NEWS:
– Keynotes have been announced!
** prof. Sabina Leonelli, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology (Germany)
Title of keynote: Bringing Humans Into Ontologies
** prof. Sören Auer, Leibniz University Hannover (Germany)
Title of keynote: Towards agentic AI – Neuro-symbolic organization of research contributions with knowledge graphs and large language models
– Accepted JOWO workshops, see the complete list:
JOWO 2025 Workshops
IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Call for FOIS main track:
– Mandatory abstract submission: 23 March 2025 (strict)
– Paper submission: 30 March 2025 (strict)
Call for FOIS Early Career Symposium (ECS):
– 25 May 2025
Early Career Symposium
Call for FOIS tutorials:
– 28 February 2025
Call for Tutorials
Stay tuned for updates!
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Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO)
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ISAO 2025 will take place the week after FOIS 2025.
WHEN:
– September 15-19, 2025.
WHERE:
– University of Catania, Italy
More information soon available on: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/
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Ontology Summit 2025
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Ontology Summit 2025 “Conceptualization, Analysis and Formalization: The Two Sides of Ontology: Relating ontologies to the world and to theories about the world”
When: Wednesdays from 12:00pm to 1:00pm US/Canada Eastern Time from 15 January 2025 to 21 May 2025.
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C-FORS Summer School in Foundational Ontology
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WHEN: 20-23 May 2025
WHERE: University of Oslo, Blindern Campus
Four-day summer school aims to give both a theoretical and a practical overview of foundational ontologies (DOLCE, BFO, UFO, and BORO)
More info here: https://groups.google.com/a/aixia.it/g/aixia/c/qhzsa8QoDwo
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The International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS 2025)
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Applications are now open to attend ISWS 2025 – The International Semantic Web Research Summer School
WHERE: Bertinoro, near Bologna, Italy.
WHEN: June 8th – June 14th, 2025
https://2025.semanticwebschool.org/
To apply, please follow the process described at the “Apply” menu on https://2025.semanticwebschool.org/
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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* Workshop on Semantic Knowledge-based Explainability of Artificial Intelligence (SKEAI 2025)
4-6 April, 2025, Porto, Portugal
Website: https://iceis.scitevents.org/SKEAI.aspx
* 47th European Conference on information retrieval (ECIR 2025)
6-10 April, 2025, Lucca, Italy
Website: https://ecir2025.eu/
* 2025 Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit Agenda
8-11 April, 2025, NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE)
9700 Great Seneca Hwy, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Website: https://oagi.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IOF/pages/5324406785/2025+Industrial+Digital+Ecosystem+Summit+Agenda
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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* ICCBR 2025: 33rd International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
IUT / UPPA Anglet, Biarritz, France, June 30-July 3, 2025
Deadline:
** Early Paper Notification: March 9, 2025
** Final Submission Deadline: March 16, 2025
* 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025)
9-12 September 2025, Naples, Italy
Website: https://2025.ldk-conf.org/call-for-papers/
Deadlines:
– Main track: March 6, 2025
* 22nd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2025)
November 11-17, 2025 – Melbourne, Australia
Website: https://kr.org/KR2025/
Deadlines:
– Tutorial and Workshop Proposals: March 24, 2025
– Main track (title, abstract): May 7, 2025
– Main track (submission): May 12, 2025
* The 41st International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2025)
12-19 September, 2025, Rende, Italy
Website: https://iclp25.demacs.unical.it/
Deadlines:
– Paper registration (regular papers): April 13, 2025
– Paper submission (regular papers): April 18, 2025
* 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025)
25-30 October, 2025, Bologna, Italy
Website: https://ecai2025.org/
Deadlines:
– Abstract deadline: 29 April 2025
– Paper deadline: 6 May 2025
For more information about calls at ECAI, see the conference website
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SPECIAL ISSUES
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* Special Issue Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, and Knowledge Graphs in the Semantic Web Journal
Website: https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-large-language-models-generative-ai-and-knowledge-graphs
Submission deadline:
*** March 31, 2025
* Special Issue on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage in the Semantic Web Journal
Website: https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-semantic-web-and-ontology-design-cultural-heritage
Submission deadline:
*** April 30, 2025
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