IAOA

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

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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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Dear IAOA members,

Below, you will find the news and announcements of our December 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).

We wish you a wonderful 2026!

Best,

The Executive Council of the IAOA

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FOIS 2026 and JOWO Episode XII – Vitória, ES, Brazil

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16th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2026) and

JOWO (Joint Ontology Workshops) 2026 – Episode XII: The Tropical Spring of Ontology.

Website: https://foisconference.org/

WHEN:

– 9 September 2026 (virtual conference)

– 21-25 September 2026 (onsite events: JOWO + FOIS)

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

FOIS

– Mandatory abstract submission: 16 March 2026

– Paper submission: 23 March 2026

– Rebuttal period: 6–13 May 2026

– Notifications: 27 May 2026

– Camera-ready submission: 17 June 2026

– Further info: https://foisconference.org/cfp/

JOWO

– Workshop proposal submission deadline: 19 January 2026

– Workshop organizers notification: 29 January 2026

– Further info: https://foisconference.org/jowocall/

Stay tuned for updates!

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 20th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2026)

2-4 September 2026 – Laguna Hills, California, USA

Website: https://www.semanticcomputing.org/

* The First Swiss Colloquium on Applied Ontology (SCAO 2026)

5-6 February 2026 – University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Website: https://swissonto.ch/scao2026/

* 22nd Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science (IRCDL 2026)

19-20 February 2026 – Modena, Italy

Website: https://ircdl2026.unimore.it/

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 23rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2026)

20-23 July 2026 – Lisbon, Portugal

Website: https://kr.org/KR2026/

Important Dates

** Submission of title and abstract: February 8, 2026

** Paper submission deadline: February 13, 2026

** Author response period: March 24-28, 2026

** Notification of acceptance: April 13, 2026

** Camera-ready due: May 3, 2026

* 29th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2026)

23-26 June 2026 – Trondheim, Norway

Website: https://www.ntnu.edu/fusion2026/

Important Dates

** Paper submissions deadline: 15 February 2026

** Acceptance Notification: 15 April 2026

** Camera Ready due: 15 May 2026

* 28th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2026)

May 22-24, 2026 – Benidorm, Spain

Website: https://iceis.scitevents.org/

Important Dates – Regular Papers

** Paper submission: 5 January 2026

** Author notification: September 15th, 2026

** Camera-ready and registration: 17 March 2026

Important Dates – Position/Regular Papers

** Paper submission: 17 February 2026

** Author notification: 24 March 2026

** Camera-ready and registration: 6 April 2026

* 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 29th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2026)

15-21 August – Bremen, Germany

Website: https://2026.ijcai.org/

Important Dates

** Abstract submission deadline: 12 January 2026

** Full paper submission deadline: 19 January 2026

** Author response period: 7-10 April 2026

** Paper notification: 29 April 2026

* The America’s Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2026)

20-22 August 2026 – Reno, Nevada, USA

Website: https://amcis2026.aisconferences.org/

Important Dates

** Paper submission: 1 March 2026

** Workshop and pane submissions: 8 May 2026

* 39th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2026)

25-29 May 2026 – Vancouver, Canada

Website: https://www.caiac.ca/en/conferences/canadianai-2026/home

Important Dates

** Round 2 submission deadline: 13 February 2026

** Round 2 author notification: 6 April 2026

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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[6] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

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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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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025)
2-6 November 2025, Nara, Japan

Website: https://iswc2025.semanticweb.org/

* 16th International Conference on Biological and Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2025)
November 3-9, 2025

Website: https://icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2025/

* 37th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2025)
3-5 November 2025 – Athens, Greece

Website: https://ictai.computer.org/2025/

* Seventh Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference (KGSWC 2025)
November 26-28, HTWK, Leipzig, Germany

Website: https://kgsw.org

* 18th IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM 2025)
December 3–5, 2025 – Geneva, Switzerland

Website: https://poem2025.unige.ch/

* 13th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2025),
December 10-12, 2025 – Dayton, Ohio, USA

Website: https://www.k-cap.org/2025/

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* WorldCIST’26 – 14th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies,
Madeira Island, Portugal (and Online) (WorldCIST-2026)

Website: https://worldcist.org/

Important dates:

**Paper Submission: November 24, 2025
**Notification of Acceptance: December 31, 2025
**Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper
**in the conference proceedings: January 7, 2026.
**Camera-ready Submission: January 7, 2026

* 23rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
July 20-23, 2026 – Lisbon, Portugal

Important dates:

** February 8, 2026 (Submission of title and abstract)
** February 13, 2026 (Paper submission deadline)
** March 24-28, 2026 (Author response period)
** April 13, 2026 (Notification of acceptance)
** May 3, 2026 (Camera-ready due)

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SCOR Online Seminar — October 30, 15:00 UTC
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The Third SCOR Online Seminar — Tarcisio Mendes de Farias on ontologies and LLMs, October 30, 15:00 UTC

The SCOR Online Seminar is an activity of the Swiss Center for Ontological Research (SCOR) [1].
It is a one-hour public online seminar (including a brief Q&A session) by an ontology researcher/practitioner in Switzerland (and beyond).

Date and Time
Thursday, October 30, 2025
15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 11:00 EDT

Organizer
Fumiaki Toyoshima (University of Neuchâtel)

Location
Online (via Webex): https://unine.webex.com/unine/j.php?MTID=m88edf40cd379b0b880ddcfa3f5bb7316

Program
Tarcisio Mendes de Farias (SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
“Knowledge Representation and Ontologies in the Era of Large Language Models”

Abstract
With the advent of large language models (LLMs), we are currently able to build applications with a relatively good accuracy that can process and generate “human”-like text, engage in natural language conversations, and perform several types of tasks based on users’ prompts. Nevertheless, it is well known that LLMs and their applications can have several limitations among them: hallucinations, indecisiveness, a “black-box” approach and lacking domain-specific knowledge. To address these limitations and more, the knowledge representation with ontologies can play a key role by making it possible to use and enhance LLMs for challenging applications that demand a high accuracy and verifiable outcomes. One of these applications is scientific question answering. In this talk, I will present different strategies to address the LLM limitations such as fine- and prompt-tuning, discuss effective relations between ontologies and LLMs, and our latest work on building a question answering system over scientific data in the form of knowledge graphs. In this recent work, we also seek to leverage the ontologies used to build these knowledge graphs.

Short bio
Dr. Tarcisio Mendes de Farias is a team leader and a computer scientist by training at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. He co-leads the Knowledge Representation Unit [2] at SIB. Currently, he is a PI in several national and international research and infrastructure projects involving the R&D of advanced methodologies for ontology engineering, data management, semantic data interoperability and integration, and question answering systems based on large language models.

Contact
For any inquiries, please kindly reference “Third SCOR Online Seminar” in your message via the SCOR contact form [3].

Links
[1] https://swissonto.ch/
[2] https://www.sib.swiss/community/our-groups/vital-it/knowledge-representation-unit
[3] https://swissonto.ch/contact-us/

Upcoming SCOR-related events
December 11, 2025 (tentatively scheduled): A SCOR online seminar on mereology by a researcher based outside Switzerland (subject to change).
February 5 and 6, 2026: The First Swiss Conference on Applied Ontology (SCAO 2026). https://swissonto.ch/scao2026/

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[5] info@iaoa.org

[6] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

[7] calendars@iaoa.org

Dear IAOA members,

Below, you will find the news and announcements of our September 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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FOIS 2025 and JOWO Episode XI – Catania, Italy

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15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025), and

Joint Ontology Workshops Episode XI (JOWO 2025): The Sicilian Summer under the Etna.

Website: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/

REGISTRATIONS are open: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?page_id=728

Accepted papers: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?page_id=713

Keynotes: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?page_id=453

Tutorials: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?page_id=602
Program: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?page_id=26

WHEN:

– 8-12 September 2025 (onsite events; JOWO + FOIS)

WHERE:

– University of Catania, Italy

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Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO)

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Website: https://www.dmi.unict.it/isao2025/

ISAO 2025 will take place the week after FOIS 2025.

REGISTRATION is now open: https://www.dmi.unict.it/isao2025/?page_id=102

Program: https://www.dmi.unict.it/isao2025/?page_id=88

WHEN:

– 15-19 September 2025.

WHERE:

– University of Catania, Italy

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 38th International Workshop On Description Logics (DL 2025)

September 3-6, 2025 – Opole, Poland

Website: https://dl25.cs.uni.opole.pl/

* 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025 )

9-11 September 2025 – Naples, Italy

Website: https://2025.ldk-conf.org/

* 41st International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2025)

September 12-19, 2025 – Rende, Italy

Website: https://iclp25.demacs.unical.it/home-page

* 9th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2025)

22 – 24 September 2025 – Istanbul Turkey

Website: https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr

* 18th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil – ONTOBRAS 2025

September 29th to October 2nd 2025 – São José dos Campos, Brazil

Website: https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/en/18th-seminar-on-ontology-research-in-brazil-ontobras-2025/

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 18th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS 2025)

September 29th to October 2nd, 2025 – São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

Website: https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/en/call-for-papers-ontobras-2025/

Important Dates

** Camera-ready: September 9th, 2025

** Authors’ registration deadline: August 29th, 2025

* 37th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2025)

3-5 November 2025 – Athens, Greece

Website: https://ictai.computer.org/2025/

Important Dates

** Author notification: August 30th, 2025

** Camera-ready: September 20th, 2025

* 13th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2025)

December 10-12, 2025 – Dayton, Ohio, USA

Website: https://www.k-cap.org/2025/

Important Dates

** Author notification: September 15th, 2025

** Camera-ready: October 6th, 2025

* 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development

October 22-24, 2025 – Marbella, Spain

Website: https://keod.scitevents.org/

* 16th International Conference on Biological and Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2025)

November 3-9, 2025 – Virtual Conference

Website: https://icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2025/

Important Dates

** Direct-to-Journal track acceptance: October 1st, 2025

** Main Conference acceptance: September 15th, 2025

** East Satellite acceptance: September 17th, 2025

* 20th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2025)

November 2nd or 3rd, 2025 – Nara, Japan (co-located with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference – ISWC-2025)

Website: https://om.ontologymatching.org/2025/

Important Dates

** Camera-ready: September 26th, 2025

* 16th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP 2025)

November 2-3, 2025 – Nara, Japan (co-located with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference – ISWC-2025)

Website: https://odpa.github.io/workshop-on-ontology-design-and-patterns/2025/

* 5th International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment (Sci-K 2025)

November 2-3, 2025 – Nara, Japan (co-located with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference – ISWC-2025)

Website: https://sci-k.github.io/2025/

* 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Materials Science (SeMatS 2025)

November 2-3, 2025 – Nara, Japan (co-located with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference – ISWC-2025)

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/semats2025/

Important Dates

** Notifications: September 5th, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)

** Camera Ready: TBA

* 1st Workshop on Bridging Hybrid (Artificial) Intelligence and the Semantic Web (HAIBridge 2025)

November 2-3, 2025 – Nara, Japan (co-located with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference – ISWC-2025)

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/iswc-haibridge25

* 18th IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM 2025)

December 3–5, 2025 – Geneva, Switzerland

Website: https://poem2025.unige.ch/

Important Dates

** Notification: September 5th, 2025

** Camera-ready version September 22nd, 2025

*OntoCom 11th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling

20-23 October 2025 – Poitiers, France (co-located with the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling – ER 2025)

Website: https://ontocomworkshops.github.io/OntoCom2025/

* 6th International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Life Sciences (CMLS 2025)

20-23 October 2025 – Poitiers, France (co-located with the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling – ER 2025)

Website: https://upv-pros.gitlab.io/omics-hub/CMLS-2025/

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OTHER CALLS

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* Collaborative Artifact, Specification, Context and Data Exchange (CASCaDE)

The Object Managing Group (OMG) issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) called “Collaborative Artifact, Specification, Context and Data Exchange” (CASCaDE). This RFP calls for a standard for Product Lifecycle Collaboration in the domain of mechatronics and software that shall include an ontology as one of its components., which calls for an ontology. Submissions that answer this RFP will compete to become an OMG standard.

– Submissions due: 18 August 2025

Website: https://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/CASCaDE_RFP.html

Important Dates

** Letter of Intent Deadline: September 1st, 2025

** Initial Submission Deadline: November 10th, 2025

** Revised Submission Deadline: February 23rd, 2026

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