[PHILOS-L] [CfP][FOIS 2026] Call for Contributions – First Call for Ontology Showcase
Giorgio Ubbiali
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16th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2026)
21–25 September 2026, Vitória, ES, Brazil – 9 September 2026, Online
Website: https://www.foisconference.org/
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FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.
FOIS is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages submission of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2026 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies.
FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web.
FOIS 2025 will be held both online and in Vitória, ES, Brazil, organized by the Federal University of Espírito Santo.
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Call for Ontology Showcase
Submission due: 03 June 2026
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2026
Camera-ready version due: 31 July 2026
Website: https://www.foisconference.org/showcase/
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Ontology Showcase
A wide variety of ontologies across many domains are being developed in the Applied Ontology community. However, limited awareness of these efforts can lead to isolated “ontology silos”, reducing opportunities for synergy and collaboration. The Ontology Showcase at FOIS provides authors with a forum to present both ongoing ontology work – so that they can receive early feedback from the community – and more mature, published ontologies that can foster collaboration across projects. Thereby, this initiative promotes the sharing, reuse and refinement of high-quality ontologies.
The ontology showcase is a practical track aimed at stimulating the community to share their ontologies, make them more visible and get (early) feedback, even if their development is still an ongoing or early work that does not provide a mature scientific contribution suitable to be submitted (yet) to the main track. The ontology showcase provides authors with the opportunity to describe their ontology to be published as CEUR proceedings. Live demos that show the use of the accepted ontologies in practical settings are encouraged.
For details on submission instructions and types, publications, format, and participation, please visit https://www.foisconference.org/showcase/
FOIS 2026 Publicity Chairs
Giorgio A. Ubbiali, PTH Brixen College, Italy
Vitor Souza, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil
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