February 2026 newsletter
Below, you will find the news and announcements of our February 2026 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 AND 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/
*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
*The Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage and Indigenous Futures (AI4CHIEF)
April 16-17, 2026, Paris, France
https://ai4chief.roc.cnam.fr/
**Authors registration deadline: March 10, 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
May 26, 2026 — Paphos, Cyprus
https://gtep-workshops.github.io/gaiw2026/
*32nd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2026)
24-28 August, 2026, Pisa, Italy
For workshop and minisymposium organisers:
**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/
*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
*37th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA2026)
August 11-13, 2026, Graz, Austria
https://www.dexa.org/2026/dexa2026
Important Dates
**Paper submission: 15 March 2026
**Authors Registration deadline: 10 June 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
Important Dates
**May 8th, 2026 (AoE): Title and Abstract Submission
**May 15th, 2026 (AoE): Paper Submission
*The 25th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2026)
September 29th – October 1st, 2026 — University of Torino, Italy
https://ekaw2026.di.unito.it/home-page
Important Dates
**Abstract Submission Deadline: May 8, 2026
**Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026
*29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2026)
4–9 October 2026 — Malaga, Spain
https://conf.researchr.org/home/models-2026
Important Dates
**Workshops Workshop Proposal Submissions Deadline: Fri 6 Mar 2026
**Research Papers Abstract Submission: Fri 20 Mar 2026
**Workshops Workshop Proposal Acceptance Notification: Fri 27 Mar 2026
**New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Abstract Submission: Wed 24 Jun 2026
**EDTconf Industrial Talks Submission: Wed 24 Jun 2026
**EDTconf Short Papers Submission: Wed 24 Jun 2026
**New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Paper Submission: Wed 1 Jul 2026
**Workshops Workshop Submissions deadline: Fri 3 Jul 2026
*45th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2026)
5-8 October 2026 — St. John’s, NL, Canada
Important Dates
**Paper abstract submission deadline: May 5, 2026
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