ISWC-JP 2026
ISWC Workshop Joint Proceedings 2026

Table of Contents

Data-Driven Storytelling: Bridging Knowledge Graphs, GenAI, and Narrative (DDS 2026)

• Preface: DDS 2026
• Deliberative, Not Merely Informed: Argument-Grounded Polling from Mined Deliberation
  Lucas Anastasiou, Enrico Daga, Anna De Liddo
• Beyond Participation Indicators: Using Data-Driven Storytelling to Reveal Contested Audience Reception (short paper)
  Priscilla Dionesalvi
• From Sensor Streams to Health Narratives: Semantic Data Storytelling Using Wearable Knowledge Graphs
  Asara Senaratne, Leelanga Seneviratne
• From Queries to Narratives: Cultural Heritage Data Stories for Knowledge Graph Exploration and Quality Assessment
  Tabea Tietz, Torsten Schrade, Etienne Posthumus, Linnaea Söhn, Jonatan Jalle Steller, Jörg Waitelonis, Harald Sack
• From Triples to Cards: A Web Component for Human-Readable Linked Open Data (short paper)
  Puyu Wang, Hang Dong, Rui Zhao
• Evaluation of Emotional Steerability in Generative Narratives for Tailor-Made Storytelling
  Kotaro Nishigori, Hideaki Takeda
• Who Is the Author? Investigating Gender and Geographical Biases in Scholarly Data-to-Text Generation
  Lia Draetta, Michael Oliverio, Walid Belafrites, Serafeim Chatzopoulos, Eleni Adamidi, Thanasis Vergoulis, Miriam Baglioni, Alessia Bardi, Paolo Manghi, Alessandro Mazzei, Rossana Damiano

First International Workshop on Spatial Intelligence and Reasoning Enabled by Knowledge Graphs and Foundation Models (SPARK2026)

• Preface: SPARK2026
• BrepPMIOnt: Ontology for Semantic Validation of Computer-aided Design Models
  Julian Gebhard, Ratan Bahadur, Yübo Wang, Steffen Staab
• CartoGraph: Graph-Based Reference Answers for Map Visual Question Answering Benchmarks
  Rene Dorsch, Daniel Henselmann, Andreas Harth
• Does Cognitive Plausibility Matter for Agentic GeoAI Persona? Testing Source–Target Asymmetry in Distance Estimation
  Krzysztof Janowicz, Alexandra Fortacz-Lazan, Seyedeh Negin Kosari, Linus Lulkiewicz, Carl Feldmann, Sebastian-Paul Lambrecht, Bastian Maximilian Arnold, Fabio Spitzenstätter, Alexander Filipsky, Brenda Tarn, Nelly Dorrmann, Martin Jakob Winder, Paul Vitovec, Sebastian Kerstein
• SOGO: A Scaling Ontology for Geospatial Observations in Knowledge Graphs
  Amin Anjomshoaa
• On the capabilities of large reasoning models for cardinal direction reasoning
  Orestis-Minas Kapopoulos, Vasileios Kyriakopoulos, Maria Tsourma, Despoina-Athanasia Pantazi, Manolis Koubarakis

The Second Workshop on Graph-enhanced LLMs for trustwOrthy Web data management (GLOW’26)

• Preface: GLOW’26
• HANIA: Planner-Guided Multimodal Graph Evidence Selection for Grounded Question Answering
  Zafar Ali, Asad Khan, Nimbeshaho Thierry, Nabila Amir, Adam A. Q. Mohammed, Pavlos Kefalas
• Graph-Grounded Agentic Search for Biodiversity e-Infrastructures: a vision for combining LLMs and Semantic Web Technologies in LifeWatch ERIC
  Lucia Vaira, Nikos Minadakis, Ilaria Rosati, Eftychia Tzafesta, Martina Pulieri, Houda Ben Salah, Alberto Basset
• Evidence-Constrained NLI-Based Fact Verification with LLMs with Routed Knowledge-Graph Retrieval
  Tala Aljibbaoui, Maximos Skandalis, Michael Sioutis
• Knowledge Graph-Guided Multi-Hop Probing for Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models
  Ushtar Ali, Steven Lynden, Akiyoshi Matono, Toshiyuki Amagasa
• Exploiting Mapping Corpora and Expert Knowledge for LLM-based Schema Mapping Generation
  Yannis Marketakis, Angely Buckel, Yannis Tzitzikas
• Graph-Grounded Multimodal Agent for Trustworthy Power-Line Operations and Maintenance
  Sania Verma, Joyjit Chatterjee, Jing Guo, Akash Marar, Rajendra Shankaran, Garima Sharma, Zekun Guo, Anu Mehra
• TSE-Bridge: Connecting Industrial Time-Series Events with Semantic Maintenance Evidence through Traceable Graph Relations
  Yihao Peng, Xinyi Xie
• Adapting WebNLG to DBpedia Evolution for Evaluating LLM-based Triple Extraction
  Apostolos Baniotis, Katerina Papantoniou, Michalis Mountantonakis, Nikos Kontonasios, Iordanis Sapidis, Pavlos Fafalios, Valantis Zervos, Yannis Tzitzikas, Ruofei Lai, Amela Fejza, Shriram Piramanayagam, Pavlos Vougiouklis, Jeff Z. Pan
• A Provenance-Aware Agentic Framework for Knowledge Graph Augmentation Using RDF 1.2 and SHACL
  Alex Vigani, Samuel Bustamante Larriet, Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, José Emilio Labra Gayo, Anisa Rula
• Enhancing Biomedical Question Answering with Knowledge-Augmented Generation : an Empirical Evaluation of Med-KAG
  Edouard Haddag, Lina F. Soualmia
• Separating Grounding from Verification: Property-Graph-Backed Generation and Independent Claim Checking for Trustworthy LLM Recommendations
  Rafał Maciejewski, Robert A. Kłopotek
• Provenance-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation with How-Provenance Polynomials
  Zubaria Asma, Daniel Hernández, Giorgos Flouris
• Natural Language Questions as an Interface for Knowledge Graphs: QRAKEN Graph Distillation and Semantic Self-Healing
  Remo Grillo, Lukas Klic, Giovanni Colavizza

The 4th Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Model-Driven Systems Engineering (KGMDSE, formerly KG4SDSE)

• Preface: KGMDSE
• Translating OWL 2 ontologies and SHACL shapes into UML/OCL models
  Mauro Dalle Lucca Tosi, Fitash Ul Haq, Jordi Cabot
• Democratizing knowledge graph engineering through domain-specific visual modeling: A tool paper
  Andrei Chiș, Ana-Maria Ghiran
• Knowledge graph-governed enrichment for adaptive conceptual modeling environments: A Scene2Model platform extension
  Alexander Voelz, Wilfrid Utz
• Natural language querying of RDF-based process models through an MCP interaction using Codex and GraphDB tools
  Damaris-Naomi Dolha
• Reliable enterprise LLM systems for high-stakes domains: A supervised deterministic retrieval framework with knowledge graphs
  Mohammad Seidpisheh, Stefan Berlik
• Towards model-based agent definition with ontologies: A systems engineering approach (short paper)
  Sangeeth saagar Ponnusamy, Carsten Strobel
• Signal search assistant for aerospace V&V: A multi-agent hybrid graph RAG approach (short paper)
  Sangeeth saagar Ponnusamy, Carsten Strobel, Alain Kerbrat
• Knowledge Graphs for Design of Experiments (DoE) for coatings research (short paper)
  Arwinder Singh, Jakub Kubecka, Kim Dam-Johansen, Jochen Dreyer
• From user intents to context graphs: Ontology-mediated intent-based data operations in the computing continuum (short paper)
  Lorenzo Balzotti, Donatella Firmani, Francesco Leotta, Andrea Piermartini, Jacopo Rossi, Verena Pietsch, Valerio Frascolla, Hui Song, Dumitru Roman, Rustem Dautov, Ioan Toma, Hyunwhan Joe, Hong-Gee Kim, Alexandre Ulisses
• Toward model-driven automated code review: extracting quality intent knowledge from review comments and accepted code changes (short paper)
  Rikuto Sasaki, Tomoya Hirata, Kazuhiro Takeuchi

The Third Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Neurosymbolic AI (KG-NeSy 2026)

• Preface: KG-NeSy 2026
  
• Keynote: Physical AI and Reasoning(Abstract)
  Alessandro Oltramari
• A Triage Ontology-Guided Knowledge Graph for Constraining Reinforcement Learning Decisions in Mass Casualty Incidents
  Maham Fatima, Boris Tolg
• On the impact of Compression and Aggregation on Knowledge Graph Embeddings
  Nader Sobhi, Unmesh Joshi, Jacopo Urbani, Katja Hose
• Aligning Biomedical Texts and Knowledge Graphs: A Systematic Comparison of Lightweight Alignment Strategies
  Artem Bisliouk, Elizaveta Nosova, Heiko Paulheim, Andreea Iana, Rita T. Sousa
• Ontology-Mediated Neurosymbolic Constraint Acquisition from Multiple Stakeholders
  Stefan Bischof, Juliana Kainz, Danilo Valerio
• A Wikidata-based Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-based Question Answering
  Medina Andresel, Jakob D. Hurst, Sven Schlarb
• Automated AI Transparency: Dynamic Ontology Instantiation for MLOps
  Fabian Kovac, Dimitrios Christodoulou, Tobias Dam, Sebastian Neumaier
• ELK-Em: Closure-Aware Embeddings for ℰℒ⁺_⊥ Ontologies
  Naman Singh, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Tillman Weyde
• Guiding Knowledge Graph Embeddings with Information Content: An Exploratory Study of Symbolic-Subsymbolic Alignment
  Verdiana Schena, Ricardo M.S. Carvalho, Catia Pesquita, Simona Colucci, Floriano Scioscia
• TRACE-Afford: Context-Sensitive Affordance Retrieval from an LLM-Constructed Typed Knowledge Graph
  Shunsuke Liu, Katsuma Marumo, Kazuma Arii, Satoshi Kurihara
• Investigating Latent Representations under Structured Sampling and Constraints
  Antrea Christou, David Castro, Cogan Shimizu
• Neuro-Symbolic Design Patterns: A Semantic Representation of Neuro-Symbolic Architectures
  Yashrajsinh Chudasama, Disha Purohit, Enrique Iglesias, Mahsa Forghani, Maria-Esther Vidal
• Accessing Semi-structured Data with RML and LLMs(Extended Abstract)
  Shikhat Karkee, Elena Botoeva, Sam Coombes, Anna Jordanous, Özgür Kafali, Davide Lanti
• DORSET: Decoding hOw Knowledge Graph chaRacteristics Shape Embedding sTrategies(Extended Abstract)
  Majlinda Llugiqi, Fajar J. Ekaputra, Marta Sabou, Nader Sobhi, Hesham Morgan, Eleonora Laurenza, Milos Jovanovik, Katja Hose, Emanuel Sallinger