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OVERLAY 2022 28th November - 4th December, 2022 (the precise day(s) will be announced later) Udine, Italy (unless held online, depending on the pandemic emergency situation) https://overlay.uniud.it/workshop/2022
Co-located with AIxIA 2022 https://aixia2022.uniud.it
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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 (https://overlay.uniud.it). 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 between 28th November and 4th December 2022 (the precise day(s) will be announced later), as a hybrid workshop co-located with AIxIA 2022 (https://aixia2022.uniud.it), which is scheduled to be held in Udine, Italy (unless it will be an online event, depending on the pandemic emergency situation).
*** Invited speaker ***
Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste, Italy)
*** 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 on including all papers in the Proceedings of the event, published at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR WS proceedings are archival proceedings indexed by DBLP and Scopus.
Submitted papers should not exceed four (4) pages plus references. Authors are asked to use CEUR's LaTeX style, available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip.
Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via the EasyChair Conference system at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=overlay22.
*** Important dates ***
- Paper submission: September 30th, 2022 - Acceptance notification: October 21th, 2022 - Camera-ready submission: November 4th, 2022 - Workshop: between 28th November and 4th December, 2022 (the precise day(s) will be announced later)
*** 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. OVERLAY 2022 will be planned as a fully in-person conference, with the possibility, on a limited basis, of participating virtually, if necessary. Should the situation worsen and an in-person event become impossible, OVERLAY 2022 will be transformed into a 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 Guido Sciavicco - Università di Ferrara Luca Geatti - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Alessandro Umbrico - ISTC-CNR, Roma
PC Members
Riccardo De Benedictis, CNR - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (CNR-ISTC), Italy Davide Bresolin, University of Padova, Italy Marco Esposito, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Francesco Fabiano, University of Parma, Italy Marco Gavanelli, University of Parma, Italy Alessandro Gianola, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Nicola Gigante, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Federico Mari, University of Rome Foro Italico, Italy Andrea Micheli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Emilio Munoz-Velasco, University of Malaga, Spain Adriano Peron, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Raine Ronnholm, University of Tampere, Finland Enrico Scala, University of Brescia, Italy Mauro Vallati, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Martin Zimmermann, Aalborg University, Denmark
*** Contacts ***
For more information email overlay2022@easychair.orghttps://mailto:overlay2022@easychair.org.