- Workshop proposal submission deadline: 17 January 2025
- Workshop organizers notification: 7 February 2025
- JOWO 2025 (co-located with FOIS 2025): 8-9 September 2025
- JOWO series
- Contact: jowo2025@easychair.org
The chairs for JOWO 2025 invite proposals for workshops to be held on-site in conjunction with FOIS 2025 which will take place September 8-12, 2025 in Catania, Italy.
The mission of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) is to facilitate collaboration among diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formal ontologies in information sciences, artificial intelligence theory and applications, philosophy and cognitive science, and beyond.
Workshops accepted at JOWO 2025 have their scientific programs autonomously curated by the organizers of each workshop. The organizers are responsible for advertising the workshops, reviewing and evaluating submitted contributions, and selecting those that will be included in the program. Workshops should offer a platform for exchanging ideas on a broad array of subjects encompassing ontologies, formal ontology, knowledge management, and their applications across information science and other areas. Together, the workshops should cover a wide spectrum of topics in ontology research, spanning disciplines such as Cognitive Science, Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics. They are particularly well-suited for fostering interdisciplinary and innovative formats.
As in earlier years, all contributions to accepted workshops will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume (unless opting out), within the IAOA series at CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html). This series is indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP.
Researchers and practitioners interested in the theory, practice, development, and/or application of ontologies and related areas are invited to submit workshop proposals for review.
We encourage several forms and lengths 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
Submission Instructions
Proposals for workshops should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must contain the following information:
- Title of the workshop
- Names of the workshop organizers
- One organizer must be indicated as a primary contact person
- For organizational purposes, there must be at least one organizer committed to be physically present during the event
- Brief description of experience in workshop organization
- Description of the workshop topic
- Brief description of the expected audience
- Expected number of participants
- Expected audience’s background and interests
- The intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and a full day)
- Timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates), considering the proposed “important dates” below
Workshop proposals must be sent to https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2025 (choose ‘JOWO Workshops’ track) by 17 January 2025.
Evaluation criteria
Submissions of workshop proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs using the following criteria:
- Scientific relevance and utility to attendees
- Quality of the proposal
- Likelihood of success of the workshop
- Overlap and complementarity with other workshops
Important dates
JOWO workshops should adhere to the proposed dates below. Significant deviations from these dates need to be discussed with the JOWO chairs.
- Workshop proposal submission deadline: 17 January 2025
- Workshop acceptance notification: 7 February 2025
- Workshop call for papers announcement and publicity:
28 February 202514 March 2025* - Workshop paper submission deadline: 25 May 2025**
- Workshop paper author notification: 14 July 2025
- Camera-ready submission: 1 September 2025
- Workshop days: between 8-9 September 2025 (co-located with FOIS 2025)***
*This includes creation and public release of a workshop website
** Reference submission deadline; actual deadlines may differ between workshops
*** The JOWO workshops will not be part of the FOIS virtual conference days scheduled for 4-5 September 2025.