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FOIS and JOWO 2026 — CALL FOR PAPERS

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16th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Vitória, ES, Brazil

21–25 September 2026, Vitória, ES, Brazil – https://foisconference.org/

In September 2026, Vitória will be the capital of formal ontology, hosting the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA).

FOIS welcomes high-quality contributions in formal ontology and applications. An exciting program is being prepared with keynote speeches, panels, technical sessions, etc.

A number of satellite workshops on key topics will be organized as part of JOWO (Joint Ontology Workshops) 2026 – Episode XII: The Tropical Spring of Ontology.

For information about FOIS 2026: ttps://foisconference.org/

For information about JOWO 2026 Episode XII: The Tropical Spring of Ontology: https://foisconference.org/jowocall/

JOWO 2025: Call for papers announced!

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Workshops at JOWO 2025 Episode XI: The Sicilian Summer under the Etna
08-09 September 2025 (Catania, Italy) – co-located with FOIS 2025
https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?page_id=499
– Cognition and OntologiesS (CASOS9)

– 14th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI)

– 5th International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2025)

– The Ninth Image Schema Day (ISD9)

– Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW 2025)

– 9th Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST IX)

– 2nd Playing with Meanings workshop (PwM2)

– Knowledge Management and process mining for Law (KM4LAW)

– 2nd International Workshop on Modeling for Cybersecurity (Shields 2)

– 2nd Annual Workshop on Convergence of Large-Language Models and Ontologies (ONTOLLM 2025)

– Explicit and Implicit Knowledge Extraction (EIKE)

– Ontologies for Services and Social-good (OSS)

– Workshop on Promoting Healthy Aging through the Semantic Enrichment of Social Science (PHASES 2025)

– Perspectival Ontology Workshop on Entities that can be Realized (POWERs)

– Planning and Ontology Workshop (PLATO)

IMPORTANT DATES:
– Workshop paper submission deadline: 25 May 2025*
– Workshop paper author notification: 14 July 2025
– Camera-ready submission: 1 September 2025

* Reference submission deadline; actual deadlines may differ between workshops, please check each workshop’s website

FOMI History

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The first International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI) took place in 2005. It is now a flagship event of the IAOA. The IAOA’s special group Industry and Standards Technical Committee coordinates its organisation.

History of FOMI:

* 2026 – 15th edition, Vitória, Brasil
* 2025 – 14th edition, Catania, Italy (proceedings)
* 2024 – 13th edition, Entschede, The Netherlands (proceedings)
* 2022 – 12th edition, Tarbes, France (proceedings)
* 2021 – 11th edition, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy (proceedings)
* 2019 – 10th edition, Graz, Austria (proceedings)
* 2018 – 9th edition, Nantes, France (proceedings)
* 2017 – 8th edition, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy (proceedings)
* 2015 – 7th edition, Berlin, Germany (proceedings)
* 2014 – 6th edition, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (proceedings)
* 2011 – 5th edition, Delft, The Netherlands (proceedings)
* 2009 – 4th edition, Vicenza, Italy (proceedings)
* 2008 – 3rd edition, Torino, Italy (proceedings)
* 2006 – 2nd edition, Trento, Italy (CD-rom proceedings)
* 2005 – 1st edition, Castelnuovo del Garda, Italy

JOWO 2025 Call for Workshops

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JOWO 2025 Episode XI: The Sicilian Summer under the Etna
08-09 September 2025 (Catania, Italy) – co-located with FOIS 2025
The chairs for JOWO 2025 invite proposals for workshops to be held on-site in conjunction with FOIS 2025 which will take place September 8-12, 2025 in Catania, Italy.
The mission of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) is to facilitate collaboration among diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formal ontologies in information sciences, artificial intelligence theory and applications, philosophy and cognitive science, and beyond.
As in earlier years, all contributions to accepted workshops will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume (unless opting out), within the IAOA series at CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html). This series is indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP.
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Call for workshop proposals
Workshop proposal submission deadline: 17 January 2025
Website: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?page_id=422
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Important dates
  • Workshop proposal submission deadline: 17 January 2025
  • Workshop acceptance notification: 7 February 2025
  • Workshop call for papers announcement and publicity: 28 February 2025
  • Workshop paper submission deadline: 1 June 2025
  • Workshop paper author notification: 14 July 2025
  • Camera-ready submission: 1 September 2025
  • Workshop days: between 8-9 September 2025 (co-located with FOIS 2025)
We encourage several forms and lengths of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive):
  • Workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were held in the past
  • Workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges
  • Workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering the exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected
  • Workshops that promote hands-on activities related to ontologies and their applications
JOWO Series: https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/
 
JOWO 2025 Organization
JOWO Chair
John Beverley, SUNY buffalo, United States of America
Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
 
Proceedings chair
Sanju Tiwari, Sharda University, Greater Noida, UP, India

FOIS 2025 CFP for main track!

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The 15th edition of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) and the Joint Ontology Workshops Episode XI (JOWO) 2025 will take place at the University of Catania (Italy).

Important dates:

  • FOIS, FOIS Satellite Events, and JOWO workshops: September 8-12, 2025.
  • Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO): September 15-19, 2025.

The Call for paper (CFP) for the Main Track at FOIS is now open:

  • Mandatory abstract submission: 23 March 2025 (strict)
  • Paper submission: 30 March 2025 (strict)
  • Rebuttal period: 9-14 May 2025
  • Notifications: 19 May 2025
  • Camera-ready papers: 30 June 2025

Stay tuned for updates!

ESAO webinar — Pros and cons of DLs for applied ontologists

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The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike (no registration needed).

The seventh of its regular webinar sessions will be held on

*Wednesday, May 10, 2023* at 14:00 UTC <https://intranet.irit.fr/SOGo/dav/public/trojahn/Calendar/12B780-643E4B00-789-425EB780.ics>
(regional times: 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST [2])

via Zoom (full connection details at the end of this message)

https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92382699039?pwd=dndEMlZGNy9WbkI1LzAxb051UTZjUT09

Program
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10:00-11:00 EDT / 14:00-15:00 UTC / 16:00-17:00 / 16:00-17:00 SAST

Title: Pros and cons of DLs for applied ontologists
Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano / Libera Università di Bolzano) and Daniele Porello (University of Genoa / Università di Genova)

Series Description
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The IAOA [3] has created ESAO [1], an educational effort directed towards topics of Applied Ontology, primarily established basics and foundations.

The series is inspired by the Interdisciplinary Schools on Applied Ontology (ISAO) [4] (for the next ISAO edition during July 10-14, 2023, please see [5]). ESAO is complementary in format and its overall approach. The goal is to provide a combination of an archive of educational material (e.g., short video lectures) and a series of webinars for presenting and discussing that material.

Organization
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Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA [6] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order):

* Lucía Gómez Álvarez
* Frank Loebe
* Sandra Lovrenčić
* Cassia Trojahn (Chair)
* Laure Vieu

Contact
E-Mail: info@iaoa.org

[1] Educational Series on Applied Ontology
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO

[2] Session time locally and in further places
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230510T1400

[3] IAOA website
http://iaoa.org/

[4] ISAO History page
https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/

[5] ISAO 2023 website
https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/

[6] Entry page of the IAOA Education Technical Committee
https://iaoa.org/index.php/faq/education-committee/

Connection Details
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Topic: ESAO 7th Session

Topic: 7th ESAO
Time: May 10, 2023 04:00 PM Paris
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ISAO 2023 – Call for Participation > Fee Schedule

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Are you ready for a fiesta in ontology education?! You’re welcome to join


ISAO 2023 on July 10-14
University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
(in person only, no online participation)

ISAO website:   https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/

The Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO) is the premier educational forum for acquiring and deepening knowledge in ontology – its foundations, applications, and interconnections with related areas. In 2023, it features at least Michael Gruninger, Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Robert Hoehndorf, Maria Keet, Oliver Kutz and Barry Smith as facilitators.

As of April 11, 2023, the subsequent news apply.

Fee schedule available

The fees are valid and payable in CAD. (**) To indicate them in EUR/USD, they have been approximated assuming 0.70 EUR/0.75 USD per 1 CAD (and rounding up).

The fee structure distinguishes between

  • 3 attendee categories (on the left):
       student – academic – industry(/business/society)
  • 2 attendance periods (*) (on the right):
       5 days (Mon-Fri, July 10-14) – last 2 days (Thu-Fri, July 13-14)
  • 2 registration phases (the two columns in the middle):
       early (by Sun, June 11) – late (from Mon, June 12 on)

which yields, with one sub table per currency (named in the upper-left, yellow corners):

Image version of ISAO 2023 fee structureRegistration opens soon, with the early registration deadline set to Sun, June 11.

Letters of invitation

To request a letter of invitation for ISAO 2023, not at least prior to registration, please email us at iaoa.isao2023@gmail.com and include your full postal work address.

Sponsoring

The organizers are grateful so far for
generous support by the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) and contributions made by ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig.

Current resources on ISAO 2023

 

Please feel invited to join us in July as well as to support us by spreading the word beforehand in your network!

Thanks and best regards,
Frank Loebe and Daniele Porello

FOIS 2023 workshops and tutorial

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List of accepted workshops at FOIS 2023:
(for updates on the workshops/tutorial, visit FOIS2023)

** CAOS VII: Cognition And OntologieS
Organizing Committee:
Guendalina Righetti, Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz, Stefano De Giorgis

** Where next? The present and future of geospatial ontologies
Organizing Committee:
Boyan Brodaric, Michael Gruninger, Torsten Hahmann

** 2nd Workshop on FAIR Ontologies and Ontologies for FAIR (Onto4Fair)
Organizing Committee:
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Clement Jonquet, Cassia Trojahn

** The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW)
Organizing Committee:
Damion Dooley, Matthew Lange, Hande Küçük McGinty, Anoosha Sehar

** International Workshop on Ontologies for Services and Society (OSS)
Organizing Committee:
Bart Gajderowicz, Daniela Rosu, Janna Hastings

** 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law (KM4LAW)
Organizing Committee:
Davide Audrito, Luigi Di Caro, Francesca Grasso, Roberto Nai, Emilio Sulis

** 2nd Modular Knowledge Workshop (MK)
Organizing Committee:
Loris Bozzato, Torsten Hahmann, Cogan Shimizu, Antoine Zimmermann

** 7th Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST VII)
Organizing
Committee: Fumiaki Toyoshima, Riccardo Baratella, Oliver Kutz, Stefano Borgo

Tutorial

**Objects, Wholes, and Parts by Antony Galton

FOIS 2023 – Call For Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

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Submission deadline: January 15, 2023 (**extended**)
Website: https://fois2023.griis.ca/call-for-workshop-and-tutorial-proposals/
Questions to: fois2023@gmail.com

The Workshop and Tutorial Chairs for FOIS 2023 invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held on site in conjunction with FOIS 2023 before or after the main conference which will take place July 17-20, 2023 in Sherbrooke, Canada (https://iaoa.org/index.php/2022/11/17/fois-2023-call-for-paper/).

Workshops and tutorials at FOIS 2023 are events whose scientific program is independently established by the workshop organizers. They will be responsible for advertising the workshop and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Workshops can be events that provide a forum for the discussion of topics broadly related to ontologies, formal ontology, and knowledge management and their application in information science or other areas. Together, the workshops can address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research, ranging from Cognitive Science to Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics. They are especially suitable for interdisciplinary and innovative formats.

Previous JOWO (Joint Ontology Workshops)/FOIS workshops were held in 2021 in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (hybrid); 2020 (virtually); 2019 in Graz, Austria; 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa; 2017 in Bolzano, Italy; 2016 in Annecy, France; and at IJCAI 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

As in earlier years, all contributions to accepted workshops will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, as part of the new IAOA series (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html).
Researchers and practitioners interested in the theory, practice, development and/or application of ontologies and related areas are invited to submit workshop proposals for review.

We encourage several forms and length of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive):
●    workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were held in the past;
●    workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges;
●    workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected.

Submission instructions

Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must contain the following information:
●    title of the workshop/tutorial;
●    names of the workshop/tutorial organizers. Please indicate a primary contact person. For organizational purposes, there must be at least two organizers who commit to be physically present during the event taking part in Canada;
●    brief description of experience in workshop/tutorial organization;
●    description of the workshop/tutorial topic;
●    brief description of the expected audience (please give an estimate of the expected number of participants and their background and interests; if applicable, please relate this to participation in similar prior events);
●    intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and a full day);
●    timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates), taking into account the proposed “important dates” below.

Workshop and tutorial proposals should be sent to fois2023@gmail.com by January 15, 2023.

Evaluation criteria

Submissions of workshop proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs using the following criteria:
●    Scientific relevance and utility to attendees;
●    Quality of the proposal;
●    Likelihood of success of the workshop;
●    Overlap and complementarity with other workshops.

Important dates
●    Workshop proposal submission deadline: January 15, 2023 (extended)
●    Workshop acceptance notification: January 26, 2023
●    First call for papers to be distributed by workshop organizers: February 28, 2023
●    Submission deadline: Around April 24, 2023
●    Notification to authors: Around May 24, 2023
●    Camera-ready versions of all papers received (TBD): Beginning of June, 2023
●    Workshops and tutorials take place on site in conjunction with FOIS 2023 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada (July 17-20, 2023): TBD

Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada
Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy

Further inquiries
Please direct all further questions to fois2023@gmail.com

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