4 - 12 September 2025, 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025), , 08-12 September 2025 (Catania, Italy), 04-05 September 2025 (online)
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 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.
The conference encourages submissions of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2025 seeks full-length high-quality papers on three tracks: - Foundational track: for papers that address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems. - Application and Methods track: for papers that address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents. - Domain Ontology track: for papers that describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use.