Submission Guidelines

We welcome original submissions of the following types:

• Full papers: 10-14 pages;
• Short papers: 5-9 pages (position papers, research-in-progress, practitioner reports);

All page limits include references.

Submission Instructions: 

Submissions must adhere to the one-column LaTeX CEURART style, see https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART (Word or LibreOffice ODT formats are not permitted).

An Overleaf template is available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw 

Following CEUR-WS policy, authors must “declare and detail the specific contributions of any GenAI tools and services used in the preparation of their work.” https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html A section on “Declaration on Generative AI” is required following the template (even if to declare no generative AI tools have been employed).

Paper submissions, when open, must be made through Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2026 by selecting “author”, “New Submission”, and the workshop COMOD (which is listed as a track of FOIS 2026).

Review Process

All submitted papers will be evaluated by members of the Program Committee, and, where appropriate, constructive suggestions for improvement will be communicated to the authors.

Publication:

Proceedings will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online Open Access publication in the JOWO 2026 volume in the IAOA series (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html). This series is indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. (For the previous editions of the JOWO proceedings, see https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/ ) 

After acceptance, the authors must submit the accepted paper for publication, including:

1. A PDF of the camera-ready version of the paper in the CEURART style (see link above);
2. A zip file containing the LaTeX source of the paper along with the required libraries for compilation (images, tables, references);
3. A signed author agreement (to be provided).  

All items are required; missing items will cause the withdrawal of the paper. 

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop for the paper to be included in the proceedings. The editors reserve the right to exclude papers that are not presented. 

Topics of interest

(not exhaustive)

• Ontology-based foundations for database conceptual modeling
• Knowledge representation and shared vocabularies in data-intensive systems
• Semantic enrichment of traditional data models
• Ontologies versus Entity–Relationship and relational modeling approaches
• Data integration and interoperability across heterogeneous data sources
• Management of semantic heterogeneity in complex information systems
• Collaboration between domain experts and ontologists in conceptual modeling
• Emerging frameworks for ontology integration with databases

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to palazzo@inf.ufrgs.br