[CFP] 15th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI)
Emilio Sanfilippo
[Apologies for potential crossposting]
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15th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
Co-located with the 16th International Conference On Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2026) - Vitória, Brazil, September 21-25, 2026
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https://fomiws.github.io/2026/
Call for papers
Topics of interest (not exhaustive)
1. Problems in ontology application:
Practical and organizational challenges in deploying ontologies in enterprises
Socio-technical aspects of ontology governance (maintenance, update, etc).
Lessons learned from real-world case studies (successes and failures).
Migration paths: from legacy systems to ontology-driven architectures.
Ontology alignment and integration in large-scale enterprise systems.
Scalability and performance issues in industrial knowledge graphs
2. Ontology and knowledge management:
Ontology-based methodologies for enterprise data modeling and knowledge management.
Ontology-driven enterprise architectures.
Adaptation, customization, and contextualization of ontologies in corporate settings.
Ontology reuse, evolution, versioning, and change management.
Ontology quality assessment, validation, and empirical evaluation frameworks.
Ontologies for explainable, trustworthy, and accountable AI.
Neuro-symbolic approaches: combining ontologies with machine learning.
Ontologies in combination with Large Language Models (LLMs).
3. Ontology in practice:
Ontologies for engineering (manufacturing, design, etc.).
Ontologies for supply chains and logistics.
Ontologies in agri-food systems.
Ontologies in healthcare, life sciences, and biomedical informatics.
Ontologies for electronic catalogues, e-commerce, e-government, etc.
Ontologies for marketing.
Ontologies for finance.
Ontologies for IoT ecosystems and smart environments.
Ontologies for Digital Twins and cyber-physical systems.
Ontologies for environmental monitoring and climate data.
Ontologies for smart societies (cities, health, industry, etc) .
Ontologies for cybersecurity and risk management.
4. Engineering Methods, Tools, and Standards:
Tool support for collaborative ontology development.
Automation in ontology learning and ontology population.
Standardization efforts and industry-wide ontological frameworks.
Benchmarking in applied ontology research.
Semantic APIs and ontology-driven services.
Graph databases and reasoning infrastructures in production systems.
Dates
Paper submission deadline: 3 June 2026
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2026
Author registration: to be communicated
Camera-ready submission: 31 July 2026
JOWO workshop days co-located with FOIS 2026 (exact FOMI date TBD): September 21-22, 2026.
Accepted Submissions
Full research papers: min 10 - max 12 pages (including references).
Short papers: min 5 - max 9 pages (including references). This track is thought for researchers and practitioners who want to share their practical experiences with ontologies or ontology-based software. Authors are expected to provide the motivations for adopting ontologies in their workflows, as well as the advantages or disadvantages due to the adoption of ontologies. In the case of ontology-based applications, authors have to provide information concerning the use of the software tool, as well as functionalities implementing the ontologies (e.g., query, data annotation, consistency checks, reasoning, etc.). Authors of accepted works will be asked to provide a short demo during the workshop.
Submission Procedure
Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format using the CEUR-Art latex template in one-column mode (downloadable here)
Consider the FAIR guidelines for the submission of the paper
Papers should be uploaded via Easy Chair following this link and selecting "author", "New Submission" and finally the track "WS: FOMI"
Publication
All accepted contributions to JOWO workshops will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume. The paper should comply with the CEUR Proceedings requirements (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). Camera ready submissions will only be considered complete if accompanied by appropriate, signed, author agreements.
(For the previous editions of the JOWO proceedings, see https://iaoa.org/index.php/jowo/)