São Paulo, BR
October 1-5, 2018
Mackenzie - Campus Higienópolis
We are interested in the various aspects of the field, from its philosophical and theoretical foundations to the new technologies and innovative applications.
Submissions (maximum 12 pages) should be written in PORTUGUES, SPANISH or ENGLISH. All submissions will undergo a review process from experts in the field. Based on the reviewers evaluations, a submission may be recommended for acceptance as a full paper (typically, well evaluated papers describing research with clear demonstrated results) or as a short paper (typically, well evaluated papers describing ongoing work).
Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation at the conference. Accepted short papers will be invited for short presentations at the conference, accompanied by a poster.
All submissions should be in the format Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and should follow the format of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). Templates for Microsoft Office Word, OpenOffice and Latex can be downloaded from
Submissions should be done via Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontobras2018
The conference proceedings will be published in the online journal CEUR-WS.
Full Papers:
Short Papers:
Suggested areas of particular interest to the event include, but are not limited to:
o Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling
o Foundational and Upper-level ontologies
o Semantic consistency
o Ontology-based conceptual modeling tools and environments
o Facets Theory
o Concept Theory
o Terminology
o Folksonomies
o Documentary languages. Thesaurus
o Taxonomies
o Metadata
o Methodology, languages and tools
o Composition and modularity
o Merging, mapping and alignment
o Ontology language interoperability
o Ontology Design Patterns and Anti-Patterns
o Ontology Validation
o Integration methods, problems and practice
o Modeling
o Information retrieval
o Ontology Search
o LOD applications
o Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing
o Computational Linguistics
o Ontology for e-science, life-sciences, e-business and cultural applications
o Knowledge management
o Ontologies and semantic technologies in Education
o Ontology-driven information systems design
o Business modeling
Jose M Parente De Oliveira (ITA)
Giancarlo Guizzardi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Joel Carbonera (IBM Research, Brazil)
Alcione Oliveira (UFV)
Alessander Botti Benevides (UFES)
Alexandre Machado (SERPRO)
Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research Brazil and EMAp/FGV , Brazil)
Andre Freitas (University of Manchester, UK)
Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR)
Bernardo Gonçalves Nunes (IBM Research, São Paulo)
Cesar Tacla (CPGEI - UTFPR)
Christiano Pessanha (UFMG)
Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile , Chile)
Cristine Griffo (UFES)
Daniela Claro (FORMAS/LASID/DCC/UFBA)
Edilson Ferneda (UCB)
Edson Prestes (UFRGS)
Fernanda Araujo Baião (UNIRIO)
Fernando Cruz (UnB)
Fernando Parreiras (FUMEC)
Flavio S Correa Da Silva (USP)
Fred Freitas (CIn-UFPE , Brazil)
Gabriela Henning (INTEC - CONICET-UNL)
Gilberto Câmara (INPE)
Ig Ibert Bittencourt (UFAL)
Jean Remi Bourguet (UFES)
Joel Carbonara (IBM Research, São Paulo)
Jose Laurindo Campos dos Santos (INPA)
Jose M Parente De Oliveira (ITA)
Joselaine Velaski (PUC-PR)
João Lima (PRODASEN)
João Moreira (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
João Paulo Almeida (UFES)
Julio Cesar Nardi (IFES)
Kate Revoredo (UNIRIO)
Laís Salvador (UFBA)
Luiz Olavo Bonino (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Mara Abel (UFRGS)
Marcela Vegetti (INGAR - CONICET / UTN)
Marcello Peixoto Bax (UFMG, Brazil)
Maria Claudia Reis Cavalcanti (IME, Brazil)
Maria Luiza Campos (NCE/UFRJ)
Maria Luiza Machado Campos (UFRJ, Brazil)
Maria das Graças Teixeira (UFES)
Mauricio Almeida (UFMG, Brazil)
Monalessa Barcellos (UFES)
Rafael Penaloza (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Raphael Cóbe (USP)
Regina Braga (UFJF)
Renata Guizzardi (UFES)
Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (UFMG)
Renata Vieira (PUCRS)
Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Ricardo Falbo (UFES)
Sandro Rama Fiorini (Université Paris-Est Créteil, France)
Seiji Isotani (USP, Brazil)
Stefan Schulz (University of Graz, Austria)
Tiago Prince Sales (University of Trento, Italy)
Veruska Zamborlini (Vreije Universiteit, The Netherlands)
Vitor Silva Souza (UFES)
Vitorio Carvalho (IFES)