JOWO 2026 Episode XII: The Tropical Spring of Ontology
21–25 September 2026, Vitória, ES, Brazil – co-located with FOIS 2026

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The mission of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) series is to join forces of the diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formalized 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 days of the conference which will take place in Vitória, Brazil, from 21st to 25th September 2026.

The chairs for JOWO 2026 invite researchers and practitioners interested in theory, practice, development, and/or application of ontologies and related areas to submit workshop proposals for review. The goal of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers to discuss emerging research questions and challenges in ontology research.

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

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Call for workshop proposals
Workshop proposal submission deadline: 19 January 2026
Website: https://www.foisconference.org/jowocall/
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Important dates
Workshop proposal submission deadline: 19 January 2026
Workshop organizers notification: 29 January 2026
JOWO 2026 (co-located with FOIS 2026): 21-25 September 2026

We encourage several forms 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/

For details on submission instructions and evaluation criteria, see here: https://www.foisconference.org/jowocall/


JOWO Organization

JOWO Chairs
Mara Abel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
Mattia Fumagalli, Free University of Bolzen-Bolzano, Italy

JOWO Proceedings Chair
Cauã Roca Antunes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil