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OVERLAY 2023

6th - 9th November, 2023 (the precise day(s) will be announced later)

Rome, Italy

https://overlay.uniud.it/workshop/2023

Co-located with AIxIA 2023

http://www.aixia2023.cnr.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, 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 (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 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 6th and 9th November 2023 (the precise day(s) will be announced later), as a hybrid workshop co-located with AIxIA 2023 (http://www.aixia2023.cnr.it/), which is scheduled to be held in Rome, Italy.

Participants must be registered to AIxIA 2023 (http://www.aixia2023.cnr.it/). Overlay does not have an additional specific fee.

*** Invited speaker ***

Luciano Serafini - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

*** Call for contributions ***

We accept extended abstracts (4 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

logic 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.

Submitted papers should not exceed four (4) pages plus references. Authors are asked to use CEUR's LaTeX style, available at https://overlay.uniud.it/workshop/2023/CEURART.zip.

Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via the EasyChair Conference system at the following address: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=overlay2023.

*** Important dates ***

- Paper submission: September 8th, 2023 September 22nd, 2023

- Acceptance notification: September 22nd, 2023 October 4th, 2023

- Camera-ready submission: October 15th, 2023

- Workshop: between 6th and 9th November, 2023 (the precise day(s) will be announced later)

*** Program Committee ***

Chairs

Andrea Brunello - University of Udine, Italy

Alessandro Gianola - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Fabio Mogavero - University of Napoli Federico II, Italy

PC Members

Dylan Bellier - University of Rennes, France

Massimo Benerecetti - University of Napoli Federico II, Italy

Laura Bozzelli - University of Napoli Federico II, Italy

Daniele Dell'Erba - University of Liverpool, UK

Dario Della Monica - University of Udine, Italy

Marco Faella - University of Napoli Federico II, Italy

Luca Geatti - University of Udine, Italy

Silvio Ghilardi - Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Nicola Gigante - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Inês Lynce - INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

Andrea Mazzullo - University of Trento, Italy

Andrea Micheli - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

Andrea Orlandini - ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy

Matteo Papini - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Gian Luca Pozzato - University of Turin, Italy

Guido Sciavicco - University of Ferrara, Italy

Ionel Eduard Stan - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Cesare Tinelli - The University of Iowa, USA

Tiziano Villa - University of Verona, Italy

Matteo Zavatteri - University of Padova, Italy

*** Contacts ***

For more information email overlay2023@easychair.orgmailto:overlay2023@easychair.org