[FOIS - JOWO 2026] announcement - Extended deadlines
Giorgio Ubbiali
[apologies for cross-posting]
Dear all,
We would like to inform that the deadlines for submissions to Journal-first papers, Demonstrations, Ontology Showcase, Research and Industrial Project Exhibitions, Early Career Symposium, and JOWO workshops have been extended:
17 June 2026
For more information, we recommend visiting the FOIS 2026 webpage with information about open calls for contributions:
https://www.foisconference.org/calls/
We would also like to inform that the deadline for submissions to the FOIS Tutorials track is fast approaching:
Submission deadline (extended): 5 June 2026
Notification: 12 June 2026
For more information, we recommend visiting the FOIS Tutorials webpage: https://foisconference.org/tutorials/
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About FOIS
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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 2026 will be held both online and in Vitória, ES, Brazil, organized by the Federal University of Espírito Santo.
Best regards,
Fernanda Farinelli
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Dear all,
We are pleased to inform you that, at the request of the community, the submission deadline for ONTOBRAS 2026 has been extended to: 14 June 2026
This extension applies to both the Main Track and the WTDO Track. Please note that this is a hard deadline, and no further extensions will be granted.
We have made every effort to extend the deadline as much as possible in order to accommodate the atypical dynamics of this joint edition of ONTOBRAS with FOIS/JOWO and the overlap of deadlines, while ensuring that acceptance notifications can still be sent in time for authors to organize their participation in the event.
Please find below the updated important dates for both tracks:
Main Track and WTDO Track
- Submission deadline: 14 June 2026 [FINAL]
- Author notification: 20 July 2026
- Final version, camera-ready, and authors’ registration deadline: 24 August 2026
- Event date: 23 September 2026
The ONTOBRAS website will be updated shortly with this information: https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras
We kindly ask for your support in sharing this extension with your networks.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Kind regards,
ONTOBRAS 2026 Organizing Committee