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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


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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

KEOD 2026 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 and an excessive number of co-authors.

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: 28 - 30 October, 2026

Paper Submission: May 19, 2026
Authors Notification: July 17, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: July 31, 2026

Paper Submission: June 26, 2026
Authors Notification: July 31, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: September 8, 2026

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: May 27, 2026

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: May 27, 2026

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: September 14, 2026

Demos
Demo Proposal: September 14, 2026

Panels
Panel Proposal: September 14, 2026

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.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Available soon.

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

David Aveiro, University of Madeira, NOVA-LINCS and ARDITI, Portugal
Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis, University of Murcia, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Andreas Abecker, disy Informationssysteme GmbH, Germany
Yuan An, Drexel University, United States
Stephen Balakirsky, GTRI, United States
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Rafael Berlanga, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Dickson Chiu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Evandro de Barros Costa, UFAL, Brazil
Marne De Vries, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Biswanath Dutta, Indian Statistical Institute, India
John Edwards, Aston University, United Kingdom
Francisco García-Sánchez, University of Murcia, Spain
Tiago Guimarães, University of Minho / ALgoritmi Research Center, Portugal
Gabriela Henning, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina
Inma Hernández, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Said Jabbour, CRIL - CNRS, University of Artois, France
Sarika Jain, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India
Mitch Kokar, Northeastern University, United States
Ho-Pun Lam, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Christoph Lange, Data Science and AI, Fraunhofer FIT
Ulrike Lechner, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
Baojun Ma, Shanghai International Studies University, China
Paulo Maio, School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Nives Mikelic Preradovic, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Olga Nevzorova, Kazan Federal University, Russia
Mihaela Oprea, Department of Automation, Computers and Electronics, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
Carlos Periñán-Pascual, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Irene Rodrigues, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Colette Rolland, Université De Paris1 Panthèon Sorbonne, France
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
Nuno Silva, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Giorgio Terracina, University of Calabria, Italy
Gian Piero Zarri, Sorbonne University, France

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