In this paper a representative example is chosen that is meant be fairly simple for illustrating the point that in a very common kind of instance, argument and explanation are mixe...
Abstract: We consider application of Zadeh's impossibility principle and extended logic FLe to approximate scientific explanation from the standpoint of the philosophy of scie...
It is widely acknowledged that providing explanations is an important capability of intelligent systems. Explanation capabilities are useful, for example, in scenario-based traini...
Maaike Harbers, Karel van den Bosch, John-Jules Ch...
Relations between mental and physical aspects of an agent can be of various types. Sensing and acting are among the more commonly modelled types. In agent modelling approaches ofte...
Abstract. We present an overview of different theories of explanation from the philosophy and cognitive science communities. Based on these theories, as well as models of explanati...
ed from context by seeing an explanation inferentially, much in the same way that early expert systems saw an explanation as chaining of inferences. This approach omitted, for the ...
Existing explanation facilities are typically far more appropriate for knowledge engineers engaged in system maintenance than for endusers of the system. This is because the expla...
Explanation requires a dialogue. Users must be allowed to ask questions about previously given explanations. However, building an interface that allows users to ask follow-up ques...
To explain complex phenomena, an explanation system must be able to select information from a formal representation of domain knowledge, organize the selected information into mul...
Bayesian networks can be used to extract explanations about the observed state of a subset of variables. In this paper, we explicate the desiderata of an explanation and confront ...