OVERLAY19: First Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and fOrmal VERification, Logic, Automata, and sYnthesis Università della Calabria Rende, Italy, November 19-22, 2019 |
Conference website | https://overlay.uniud.it/workshop/2019/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=overlay19 |
Submission deadline | September 6, 2019 |
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. AI systems employed in such applications need to provide formal guarantees about their safety, increasing the need for a synergic collaboration between the AI and Formal Methods scientific communities. Despite this increasing need, tools and methodologies integrating Formal Methods and Artificial Intelligence solutions have received relatively little attention.
Aware of this scenario, the combined efforts of notable Italian researchers, that have been collaborating since several years in complementary fields such as specification, verification, and synthesis of reactive systems, artificial intelligence, controller synthesis, etc., has led to the creation of a new research group on Artificial Intelligence and fOrmal VERification, Logic, Automata, and sYnthesis (OVERLAY - https://overlay.uniud.it/). The group is structured in four areas: Formal Methods, Automated Planning, Discrete and Continuous Hybrid Systems, Tools and Applications. In general, it aims at investigating novel methods and algorithms supporting the design and development of autonomous safety-critical systems.
The workshop is the first official initiative supported by the OVERLAY group, presenting the research group and its current results to the Italian AI scientific community. 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 FM and AI communities, (ii) to identify innovative tools and methodologies, and (iii) to elicit a discussion on open issues and new challenges.
CONTRIBUTIONS FORMAT
We elicit the contribution of extended abstracts (4 papers + references)
discussing the interaction of Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods.
Invited talks will complement the presentations of contributed papers.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- automated reasoning
- automated planning and scheduling
- controller synthesis
- formal verification
- formal specification languages
- game theory
- hybrid and discrete systems
- logics
- reactive synthesis
- runtime verification and monitoring
- specification and verification of machine learning systems
- timed automata
- 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 welcome.
All papers will be included in the Proceedings of the event, published in the
CEUR Workshop Proceedings AI*IA Series as well as on the workshop website.
CEUR WS proceedings are archival proceedings indexed by DBLP and Scopus.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper submission: September 6th, 2019
- Notification: September 28th, 2019
- Camera-ready: October 15th, 2019
- Workshop: November 19-22, 2019
SUBMISSIONS
Submitted papers should not exceed four (4) pages, not including references.
Authors are asked to use the LaTeX style provided at
https://overlay.uniud.it/workshop/2019/.
Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via the
EasyChair Conference system at the following address:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=overlay19
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
- Nicola Gigante • University of Udine, Italy
- Federico Mari • University of Rome Foro Italico, Italy
- AndreA Orlandini • ISTC-CNR, Italy
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (expanding...)
- Massimo Benerecetti • University of Naples Federico II
- Davide Bresolin • University of Padova
- Amedeo Cesta • ISTC-CNR, Rome
- Riccardo De Benedictis • ISTC-CNR, Rome
- Dario Della Monica • University of Udine
- Marco Faella • University of Naples Federico II
- Luca Geretti • University of Verona
- Salvatore La Torre • University of Salerno
- Ivan Lanese • University of Bologna
- Angelo Montanari • University of Udine
- Adriano Peron • University of Naples Federico II
- Carla Piazza • University of Udine
- Pietro Sala • University of Verona
- Guido Sciavicco • University of Ferrara
- Stefano Tonetta • Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- Enrico Tronci • University of Rome La Sapienza
- Alessandro Umbrico • ISTC-CNR, Rome
- Tiziano Villa • University of Verona