8th 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 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's edition will be held on July 18-19, 2026, as part of FLoC 2026, which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal.

Call for contributions

We accept contributions (see below for the format) focusing on the interaction between Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods and on the issue of symbolic/sub-symbolic integration. Presentation of results recently published in other scientific journals or conferences and invited talks will complement the presentations of contributed papers.

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

• automata theory
• automated reasoning, satisfiability, theorem proving
• automated planning and scheduling
• controller and reactive synthesis
• formal verification
• game theory
• hybrid and discrete systems
• logics in computer science
• neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence
• logics for neural networks
• neural networks for logic
• runtime verification and monitoring
• specification and verification of machine/deep learning systems
• specification and verification of systems based on large language models
• tools and applications

Submissions

We invite two kinds of contributions:

1. “regular” papers, presenting original research not published nor under review elsewhere. Regular papers should not exceed nine (9) pages plus references and, possibly, an appendix (that will not be published).
2. “short” papers, presenting either original research or results already published in other venues, write-ups on work-in-progress projects worth discussing, etc.

All contributed papers, except if explicitly requested otherwise by the authors, will be included in the Proceedings of the event, published at CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Submissions must be in PDF format. Instructions on how to proceed with the submission will be published on this page soon.

Program Committee

Workshop Chairs

• Luigi Bonassi • University of Oxford, UK
• Nicola Gigante • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

PC Members

To be announced…

Contacts

For more information write an email to overlay@uniud.it