[CEUR Workshop Proceedings] Vol-391

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ExaCt 2008
Explanation-aware Computing




Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on
Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt 2008), July 21-22, 2008

Held in conjunction with the
18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI 2008,
University of Patras, Patras, Greece.

Edited by

Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer *
Stefan Schulz #
Daniel Bahls $
David B. Leake +

* DFKI GmbH / TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
# e-Spirit AG, Dortmund, Germany
$ TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
+ Indiana University, USA


Table of Contents

  1. Explaining for Contextualizing and Contextualizing for Explaining
    Patrick Brézillon
  2. Explaining Recommendations Generated by MDPs
    Omar Zia Khan, Pascal Poupart, and James P. Black
  3. Integrating Probabilistic and Knowledge-Based Systems for Explanation Generation
    Francisco Elizalde, Enrique Sucar, Julieta Noguez, and Alberto Reyes
  4. Answer Set Programming - a Domain in Need of Explanation (A Position Paper)
    Martin Brain and Marina De Vos
  5. A Temporal Abductive Diagnostic Process for Runtime Properties Violations
    Theocharis Tsigkritis and George Spanoudakis
  6. Deriving Explanations from Partial Temporal Information
    Jixin Ma, Brian Knight, and Miltos Petridis
  7. Linked and Convergent Structures in Discourse-Based Reasoning
    Andrew Potter
  8. A High-Level Categorization of Explanations: A Case Study with a Tutoring System
    Helmut Horacek
  9. A Cognitive Model for the Generation and Explanation of Behaviour in Virtual Training Systems
    Maaike Harbers, Karel van den Bosch, Frank Dignum, and John-Jules Meyer
  10. Explanations and Privacy in Intelligent Social Awareness Applications
    Jörg Cassens, Anders Kofod-Petersen, Sobah Abbas Petersen, and Monica Divitini
  11. Towards Reasoning and Explanations for Social Tagging
    François Bry and Jakub Kotowski
  12. Explanation Styles in iDocument
    Björn Forcher, Benjamin Adrian, and Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer
16-Sep-2008: submitted by Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer
16-Sep-2008: published on CEUR-WS.org