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KEOD is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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Knowledge Engineering (KE) refers to the technical, scientific, and social aspects involved in building, maintaining, and utilizing knowledge-based systems. As a multidisciplinary field, KE draws upon methodologies from artificial intelligence (AI), databases, expert systems, decision support systems, and information systems, with strong ties to software engineering principles.

KE also intersects with disciplines like logic, cognitive science, and socio-cognitive engineering. In recent years, the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened new pathways in ontology development, enabling automated extraction, refinement, and evolution of ontologies. Additionally, the rise of Low-code and No-code Platforms empowers non-experts to participate in ontology engineering, broadening accessibility and fostering innovation.

Ontology Development (OD) focuses on building reusable semantic structures such as vocabularies, glossaries, and formal ontologies that specify types of entities and relationships within a domain. These semantic structures are increasingly central to applications like knowledge graphs, digital twins, explainable AI (XAI), and cybersecurity frameworks, where ontologies enhance data integration, decision-making, and system transparency.

Current applications of KE and OD include sustainable AI solutions, semantic interoperability in IoT, natural language processing (NLP), and enterprise engineering. Ontologies now play a crucial role in ensuring ethical AI development by mitigating bias and enhancing transparency.

The KEOD conference aims to be a major meeting point for researchers and practitioners interested in methodologies and technologies related to Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development. It encourages the exploration of cutting-edge topics such as LLM-based Ontology Development, Ontology-driven Digital Twins, and Ontology-enhanced Low-code Platforms, fostering dialogue and innovation across academic and industrial spheres.

CONFERENCE TOPICS


  • Applications and Case-Studies
  • Automated Ontology Learning and Evolution
  • Domain Analysis and Modeling
  • Domain Ontologies
  • Enterprise Engineering
  • Enterprise Ontology
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Ontology Development
  • Integration and Interoperability
  • Knowledge Acquisition
  • Knowledge Engineering
  • Knowledge Graphs and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)
  • Knowledge Representation
  • LLM-based Ontology Development
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Ontologies for Ethical AI and Bias Mitigation
  • Ontologies in Low-code and No-code Platforms
  • Ontology Engineering
  • Ontology Matching and Alignment
  • Ontology Sharing and Reuse
  • Ontology Tools
  • Ontology-based Cybersecurity Frameworks
  • Ontology-driven Digital Twins
  • Reference Models
  • Semantic Interoperability in IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Semantic Web
  • Sustainability and Green AI Ontologies

IC3K KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

IC3K 2025 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 20 - 22 October, 2025

Paper Submission: May 19, 2025
Authors Notification: July 17, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: July 31, 2025

Paper Submission: June 26, 2025
Authors Notification: July 31, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: September 5, 2025

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: May 27, 2025

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: May 27, 2025

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: September 11, 2025

Demos
Demo Proposal: September 11, 2025

Panels
Panel Proposal: September 11, 2025

SECRETARIAT

KEOD Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: keod.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://keod.scitevents.org

VENUE

Available soon.

IC3K CONFERENCE CHAIR

Jorge Bernardino, Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Portugal

PROGRAM CHAIR

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, NOVA-LINCS and ARDITI, Portugal

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Mara Abel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Yuan An, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, United States
Stephen Balakirsky, GTRI, United States
Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg , Germany
Rafael Berlanga, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Dickson Chiu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Simona Colucci, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
João Costa, CeBER and Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Evandro de Barros Costa, UFAL, Brazil
Marne De Vries, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Mauro Dragoni, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy
John Edwards, Aston University, United Kingdom
Francisco García-Sánchez, University of Murcia, Spain
Ronald Giachetti, Naval Postgraduate School, United States
Jane Greenberg, Drexel University, United States
Tiago Guimarães, University of Minho / ALgoritmi Research Center, Portugal
Gabriela Henning, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Sarika Jain, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India
Mitch Kokar, Northeastern University, United States
Christoph Lange, Data Science and AI, Fraunhofer FIT
Ulrike Lechner, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
Paulo Maio, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Nives Mikelic Preradovic, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia
Michele M. Missikoff, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Olga Nevzorova, Kazan Federal University, Russian Federation
Jørgen Fischer Nilsson, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Alex Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Carlos Periñán-Pascual, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Yehoshua Perl, NJIT, United States
Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH, Greece
Thomas Risse, University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg, Germany
Colette Rolland, Université De Paris1 Panthèon Sorbonne, France
Duncan Dubugras Alcoba Ruiz, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS, Brazil
Michele Ruta, Politecnico Di Bari, Italy
Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Istitute for Information Infrastructure, Germany
Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock, Germany
Johannes Schönböck, Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Víctor J. Sosa-Sosa, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico
Ahmet Soylu, OsloMet, Norway
Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University, Japan
Azeddine Zahi, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco
Nianjun Zhou, IBM, United States

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