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Slides available [2006-12-28] |
The presentation slides of (most of) the talks are available as pdf files.
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This is the Preliminary Agenda as of October, 4th. You may also download the Acrobat-Version for print.
Day 1 - Nov 4 | 08:45 | Technical Setup (TRB) | | 09:00 | Welcome and Overview (TRB) | | 09:15 | Introduction of participants | | 09:30 | Invited Talk: David B. Leake "Context, Goals, Experiences, and Explanations"
| | 10:30 | Coffee break | | 11:00 | "Collaborative Construction and Structuring of Explanations in Knowledge-Based Systems: A Discursive Framework" (slides)
Fahri Yetim | | 11:45 | "An Explanation Oriented Dialogue Approach for Solving Wicked Planning Problems" (slides)
Gengshen Du, Michael M. Richter, Günther Ruhe | | 12:30 | Lunch break | | 14:00 | "Knowledge Lite Explanation Oriented Retrieval" (slides)
Derek Bridge, Lisa Cummins | | 14:45 | "Using Symbolic Similarity to Explain Case-Based Reasoning in Classification Tasks" (slides)
Eva Armengol, Enric Plaza | | 15:30 | Coffee break | | 16:00 | "Corrective Explanations for Constraint Satisfaction" (slides)
Karen Petrie (Barry O'Sullivan, Barry O'Callaghan, Eugene C. Freuder) | | 16:45 - 17:00 | Topic Acquisition for Topic Groups Discussions (TRB)
We will select three or four topics that are of interest to the symposium attendees. It is intended that the groups meet afterwards and discuss the respective topics. |
Day 2 - Nov 5 | 09:00 | "Interactive Natural Language Explanations of Cyc Inferences" (slides)
David Baxter, Blake Shepard, Nick Siegel, Benjamin Gottesman, Dave Schneider | | 09:45 | "An Automated Explanation Approach for a Decision Support System Based on MCDA" (slides)
Micheline Bélanger, Jean-Marc Martel | | 10:30 | Coffee break | | 11:00 | "A Framework for Explaining Reasoning in Description Logics" (slides)
Xi Deng, Volker Haarslev, Nematollah Shiri | | 11:45 | "Explanation Support for OWL Authoring" (slides)
Thorsten Liebig, Friedrich von Henke, Olaf Noppens | | 12:30 | Lunch break | | 14:00 | "Explanation and Proof Trees" (slides)
Gérard Ferrand, Willy Lesaint, Alexandre Tessier | | 14:45 | Demo Session
- "MEX: The OWL subsumption explainer for the Onto-Track ontology authoring environment"
Thorsten Liebig | | 15:30 | Coffee break | | 16:00 | Discussion Session
This general discussion session is intended to pick up loose ends from the presentations up to that point. Of course, new topics are welcome here, too. Interim results of the topic groups may be discussed as well. It should be kept in mind that there is a dedicated discussion session at the end of the symposium. | 17:45
| Plenary Session (slides)
At every symposium series AAAI has had an evening plenary session, open to the public, in which a representative from each symposium talks about their symposium. The talks are supposed to present to an audience of AI researchers something that is interesting and presents some of the issues behind the symposium. | | 20:00 - open | Joint Dinner at a Restaurant
Traditionally, we -the organizers- try to find a nice restaurant where we -the symposium attendees- can talk about a bit more than the symposium. |
Day 3 - Nov 6 | 09:00 | "Explaining Results from Information Retrieval and Integration"
Honglei Zeng, Deborah L. McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Richard Fikes | | 09:45 | "Because Men Don't Bite Dogs: A Logical Framework for Identifying and Explaining Unexpected News"
Emma Byrne | | 10:30 | Coffee break | | 11:00 | Preparation of Results of Topic Group Discussions
The results of the discussed topic should be collected and prepared for a short presentation to / discussion with all symposium attendees. It would be most helpful to have the discussion results as a PowerPoint presentation for documentation purposes / further discussion / another workshop. | | 11:30 | Results of the Topic Groups Discussions | | 12:15 | Closing | | 12:30 | Joint Lunch |
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