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Conferences, Workshops, Summer Institutes, and similar events.

FOIS 2026 Highlights

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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

FOIS 2026 Registration Open!

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Registrations open!

– Early bird registration before 31 July 7 August (or 21 August for students).

– For FOIS authors, registration is mandatory before 8 July.

– For JOWO and satelite track authors, registration is mandatory before 31 July.

Visit the conference website for more information.

We look forward to meeting you in Vitória!

JOWO 2026 deadline extension

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JOWO 2026 Episode XII: The Tropical Spring of Ontology

The mission of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) series is to join forces of the diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formalised ontologies in the wide spectrum of information sciences, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence theory and applications, logic, philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, and beyond.

JOWO 2026 is the twelfth edition of the series, and will be held on-site in conjunction with FOIS 2026, during the first two days of the conference (21st and 22nd September 2026) in Vitória, Brazil.

The contributions to the accepted workshops will be submitted for open access publication in a joint CEUR proceedings volume (unless opting out), within the IAOA series at CEUR. This series is indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP.

Important dates

  • Workshop paper submission deadline: 03 June 2026 17 June 2026 (extended!)
  • Workshop paper author notification: 15 July 2026
  • Camera-ready submission: 31 July 2026
  • Workshop days: 21 and 22 September 2026 (co-located with FOIS 2026)

For more information on JOWO 2026, please visit: https://foisconference.org/jowo/

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!

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