21 - 25 September 2026, 16th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2026), Vitória [BR] and online (9 September)
FOIS is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. 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.
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 seeks full papers on three tracks: foundational track, methods, and onthology.