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Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria
Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
Abstract
The generation of explanations
is considered as a main asset of knowledge-based systems employing an
explicit knowledge representation. Such systems can exploit explanations in
communication processes in order to justify the outcome of a reasoning
procedure. E.g. in recommendation processes explanations are generated to
build trust in proposed solutions.
In this talk we show that
current approaches of generating explanations for constraint satisfaction
problems fall short. These approaches can lead to spurious explanations with
respect to a proposed (or selected) solution. We introduce an extension of
current explanation principles such that all explanations of properties
regarding a proposed solution are well-founded explanations.
CV:
Since 1997 Gerhard Friedrich
is full professor at the Alpen-Adria Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria where
he directs the research group on Intelligent Systems and Business Informatics
and heads the Institute for Applied Informatics.
Prof. Friedrich received his
Ph.D. at the Technical University Vienna and worked as a guest researcher at
the Stanford Research Institute and at the Corporate Research Division of
Siemens AG. Before his engagement at the University Klagenfurt, Prof.
Friedrich was head of the technology centre for configurators and diagnosis systems
of Siemens Austria where under his responsibility numerous knowledge-based
systems were successfully implemented.
Prof. Friedrich has published
more than 100 articles in highly renowned journals and conferences. He serves
as an Editor of AI Communications and is Associate Editor of the
International Journal of Mass Customisation. Prof. Friedrich and his team
conduct research in the areas of knowledge based systems for configuring
products and services, knowledge based advisory systems, distributed knowledge
based systems, knowledge acquisition, integration of knowledge based systems,
diagnosis and repair of processes as well as self healing web services.
Reference person: Francesco Ricci
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