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OVERLAY 2021 September 22, 2021 Padova, Italy (unless held online, depending on the pandemic emergency situation) https://overlay.uniud.it/workshop/2021/
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 on September 22, 2021, and will be co-located with GandALF 2021 (https://gandalf2021.math.unipd.it/), which is scheduled to be held in Padova, Italy (unless it will be an online event, depending on the pandemic emergency situation).
*** Invited speaker ***
Roderick Bloem, professor at Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications - Graz, Austria https://www.iaik.tugraz.at/person/roderick-bloem/
*** 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=overlay21.
*** Important dates ***
- Paper submission: July 11th, 2021 - Acceptance notification: July 23rd, 2021 - Camera-ready submission: August 31st, 2021 - Workshop: September 22nd, 2021
*** COVID-19 Information ***
Taking into account the emergency situation, the organizers of OVERLAY 2021 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 2021 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 2021 will be a no-fee event.
*** Program Committee ***
Chairs Dario Della Monica - Università di Udine, Italy Gian Luca Pozzato - Università di Torino, Italy Enrico Scala - Università di Brescia, Italy
PC Members Alessandro Artale - Libera Università di Bolzano Davide Bresolin - Università di Padova Luca Geatti - Università di Udine Nicola Gigante - Libera Università di Bolzano Laura Giordano - Università del Piemonte Orientale Ivan Lanese - Università di Bologna Federico Mari - Università di Roma Foro Italico Andrea Micheli - Fondazione Bruno Kessler Fabio Mogavero - Università di Napoli Federico II Laura Nenzi - Università di Trieste AndreA Orlandini - ISTC-CNR, Roma Gennaro Parlato - Università del Molise Adriano Peron - Università di Napoli Federico II Gabriele Puppis - Università di Udine Guido Sciavicco - Università di Ferrara Stefano Tonetta - Fondazione Bruno Kessler Enrico Tronci - Università di Roma La Sapienza Tiziano Villa - Università di Verona Enea Zaffanella - Università di Parma Matteo Zavatteri - Università di Verona
*** Contacts ***
For more information email overlay21@easychair.org.