7th International 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, and possibly leading to the proposal of novel neurosymbolic approaches.

To witness this increasing need, tools and methodologies integrating Formal Methods and Artificial Intelligence, and more broadly symbolic and sub-symbolic solutions, are getting more and more attention, especially considering the wide-range and pervasive applications of machine and deep learning models.

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 on October 26th, 2025, as a workshop co-located with ECAI 2025, which is scheduled to be held in Bologna, Italy.

Call for contributions

We accept extended abstracts (5 pages + references) focusing on the interaction between Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods and on the issue of symbolic/sub-symbolic integration. 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
• neurosymbolic approaches
• logics for neural networks
• neural networks for logic
• reactive synthesis
• runtime verification and monitoring
• satisfiability modulo theories and theorem proving
• specification and verification of machine/deep 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.

Submissions

Submitted papers should not exceed five (5) pages plus references. Authors are asked to use the CEURART LaTeX style, which is available through CEUR here. Authors of accepted papers will have the possibility to extend their submissions for the final camera-ready version to eight (8) pages plus references and appendix.

Note that the appendix will not be included in the proceedings and reviewers will consult it at their own discretion. No constraints are present for presentation only papers (submitting either a one page abstract or the already published full paper, highlighting the original venue, is ok).

Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=overlay2025 .

Program Committee

Chairs

• Angelo Montanari • University of Udine, Italy
• Andrea Orlandini • National Research Council of Italy, Italy
• Nicola Saccomanno • University of Udine, Italy
• Stefano Tonetta • Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

PC Members

• Raul Barbosa • University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Saddek Bensalem • VERIMAG, France
• Alberto Bombardelli • Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
• Laura Bozzelli • Federico II University of Naples, Italy
• Davide Bresolin • University of Padua, Italy
• Alessandro Burigana • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
• Görschwin Fey • Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
• Mirco Giacobbe • University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
• Alessandro Gianola • INESC-ID/Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Nicola Gigante • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
• Laura Giordano • University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
• Martin Leucker • University of Luebeck, Germany
• Federico Mari • University of Rome Foro Italico, Italy
• Andrea Micheli • Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
• Sergio Mover • Ecole Polytechnique, France
• Carla Piazza • University of Udine, Italy
• Ingo Pill • Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Michel Reniers • Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Sabina Rossi • Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
• Sasha Rubin • The University of Sydney, Australia
• Cesar Sanchez • IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
• Enrico Tronci • Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Sarah Winkler • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
• Matteo Zavatteri • University of Padova, Italy
• Martin Zimmermann • Aalborg University, Denmark

Technical Support and Website

• Nicola Gigante (Chair) • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Contacts

For more information email to any of the program chairs at overlay2025@easychair.org