About
The onto:Nexus Workshop—formally known as the International Workshop on Ontological Modeling and Analysis—serves as a premier platform for the R&D community to present peer-reviewed, original research. The workshop champions innovative approaches in the field by showcasing work that applies formal methods for enhanced rigor, integrates DevOps practices to boost agility, and leverages AI techniques to automate activities in ontological modeling and analysis.
This edition of the workshop aims to bring together a rich set of researchers, practitioners, and tool-builders focused on ontological modelling and analysis, as applied to model-based software and systems engineering.
The secondary objective is to highlight novel and ongoing work in ontological modelling and analysis. With the resurgence of ontological techniques across domains and disciplines, there is a need for a workshop-level venue for promoting early-stage research, fundamental contributions, and applications to case studies.
Important Dates
- Thursday June 26, 2025: Abstract submission
- Thursday July 3, 2025: Paper submission
- Thursday July 31, 2025: Notification of acceptance
- Thursday August 7, 2025: Camera-ready submission
Topics of Interest
- Ontological modeling methods / methodologies, analysis tools, and processes for model-based software or systems engineering
- Ontological modeling best practices and guidelines, case studies, and benchmarks
- Creation of ontologies through collaboration, machine learning techniques, or other approaches
- Tooling for ontological modeling and analysis
- Empirical studies on the use of ontologies in MBSE
- Intersections between ontologies and formal methods
- Organizational and governance aspects of ontological modeling
- Semantic interoperability in software and/or systems
- AI for ontological modeling/analysis, and ontological modeling/analysis for AI
- Human-in-the-Loop: integrating human behavior into ontological modeling
Submission Page Limits
- Regular papers: Maximum 10 pages — Novel research or applications
- Short and tool papers: Maximum 5 pages — Vision papers, tools, demos, case studies
- Industry short talks: Maximum 2 pages — Open to all industry practitioners
Paper Publication
All submitted papers must adhere to the IEEE Conference format.
Accepted regular, short, and tool papers will be published in the companion proceedings of the MODELS 2025 conference.
Organizing Committee
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Maged Elaasar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA -
Bentley Oakes, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada -
Wahab Hamou-Lhadj, Concordia University, Canada -
Mohammad Hamdaqa, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Program Committee
- To be announced
