The 5th International Conference on Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs 2026 (ICOKG 2026) aims to be an open forum for communication between students and researchers who carry out initial, intermediate, and final research on topics in graph applications, knowledge graphs, machine learning, deep learning, semantic web, natural language processing, data science applications, optimization in Artificial Intelligence Systems, and conference-related topics. We invite researchers in these areas of interest to submit contributions written in Spanish or English.
This 5th edition will be held at the Faculty of Computer Sciences of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico on September 25, 2026. In order for the authors to attend the conference, we maintain hybrid participation.
List of Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Natural Language Processing
Graph applications
Linked data
Reasoning
Ontologies
Ontology engineering
Web semantic
Graphs of knowledge
Text mining
Extraction of information
Modeling of topics
Ontology learning
Retrieval of information
Machine learning
Deep learning
Data science applications
Applications
Optimization in Artificial Intelligence Systems
Design, Analysis and Applications of Optimization Algorithms
Bio-inspired and Swarm Intelligence Methods
Heuristic and Metaheuristic Optimization
Genetic Algorithms
AI-driven Optimization Methods
Machine Learning for Optimization
Optimization in Data Science and NLP
Paper Guidelines
Papers can be submitted in English or Spanish. Papers written in Spanish must include a title and abstract in English.
They should be prepared according to the template:
LaTeX Template or
Word Template.
Types of Contributions
- Full papers: 12-15 pages
- Short papers: 8-11 pages
Also, all the presentations must be based on this template:
Presentation Template
All articles accepted written in English will be published by 
Submission Process
All papers must be submitted in electronic format as PDF files before the submission deadline.
All papers are subject to a double-blind review process by three members of the program committee. We evaluated originality of the work, quality in content, innovation, and contribution to the state of the art. They should not include information that clearly identifies the authors or citations.
They must be not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference, nor previously published. They will be screened using plagiarism detection tools.
A paper must be submitted via the CMT online submission system:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICOKG2026
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
Submission and acceptance implies that at least one author is willing to register and present the work.
The original accepted works written in Spanish will be published as chapters of a book with ISBN (previous.html). All papers must meet the ethical and quality criteria of the publisher.
All articles accepted written in English will be published by
The published papers with the highest evaluations will be invited to participate in a special issue, which will be submitted to a double-blind review process, for publication in the IJCOPI journal (ISSN:2007-1558). The papers accepted for the special issue must be written in English and extended at least a 40%.
IJCOPI is an international electronic scientific journal that publishes quality articles from different areas of knowledge related to computer science and combinatorial optimization problems. IJCOPI is recognized and indexed in SECIHTI, Web of Science, SciELO, Redalyc, LatIndex, DBLP, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, DOAJ, Google Scholar, among others (https://www.ijcopi.org/ojs/indexing).