4rd Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence and
fOrmal VERification, Logic,
Automata, and sYnthesis

The increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence techniques in safety-critical systems, employed in real world scenarios, requires the design of reliable, robust, and verifiable methodologies. Artificial Intelligence systems employed in such applications need to provide formal guarantees about their safety, increasing the need for a close interaction between the Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods scientific communities. To witness this increasing need, tools and methodologies integrating Formal Methods and Artificial Intelligence solutions are getting more and more attention.

The workshop is the main official initiative supported by the OVERLAY group. The event aims at establishing a stable, long-term scientific forum on relevant topics connected to the relationships between Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods, by providing a stimulating environment where researchers can discuss about opportunities and challenges at the border of the two areas.

Important goals of the workshop are (i) to encourage the ongoing interaction between the formal methods and artificial intelligence communities, (ii) to identify innovative tools and methodologies, and (iii) to elicit a discussion on open issues and new challenges.

This year edition will be held somewhere between November 28 and December 4, 2022, during AIxIA 2022, which is scheduled to be held in Udine, Italy (unless it will be an online event, depending on the pandemic emergency situation). Precise dates will be announced as soon as possible.

Call for contributions

We accept extended abstracts (4 pages + references) focusing on the interaction between Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods. Invited talks will complement the presentations of contributed papers.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• automata theory
• automated reasoning
• automated planning and scheduling
• controller synthesis
• formal specification languages
• formal verification
• game theory
• hybrid and discrete systems
• logics in computer science
• reactive synthesis
• runtime verification and monitoring
• specification and verification of machine learning systems
• tools and applications

Contributed papers can present recent results at the border of the two fields, new research directions, challenges and perspectives. Presentation of results recently published in other scientific journals or conferences is also welcome.

We plan to include all papers in the Proceedings of the event, published at CEUR Workshop Proceedings . CEUR WS proceedings are archival proceedings indexed by DBLP and Scopus.

COVID-19 Information

Taking into account the emergency situation, the organizers of OVERLAY 2022 will closely monitor the evolution of the pandemic and will take all the necessary actions to guarantee a successful event.

In the case that an in-person event will not be possible, OVERLAY 2022 will be a hybrid or fully virtual conference. Updates on the organization mode will be published and advertised in due time.

In any case, OVERLAY 2022 will be a no-fee event.

Program Committee

Chairs

• Luca Geatti • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• Guido Sciavicco • University of Ferrara
• Alessandro Umbrico • ISTC-CNR, Rome

PC Members

To be announced...

Contacts

For more information email to scvgdu@unife.it.