SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS for the 7th International and ECAI 2012 Workshop on EXPLANATION-AWARE COMPUTING (ExaCt 2012) One-Day Workshop, 27 or 28 August 2012, Montpellier, France http://exact2012.workshop.hm ** Submission deadline: May 28, 2012 ** When knowledge-based systems are partners in interactive socio- technical processes, with incomplete [...]
Posts Tagged ‘explanation’
CFP: ExaCt 2012
Posted in CFP, Computation, Connections, tagged AI conferences, ECAI 2012, ExaCt 2012, explanation, explanation aware computing on May 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Burden of proof and intellectual property
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, Teaching, tagged Black Label Movement, dance, dance your phd, explanation, explanations, John Bohannon, Michael Gilbert, visual argument on January 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Do PIPA and SOPA threaten to reverse legal burden of proof in the US? Clay Shirky argues they do. I don’t know enough about the legal system, or the proposed legislation. However, this is a serious allegation with implications far beyond the US.
Dancing an Explanation
Posted in Connections, Discussion, Rhetoric, Teaching, tagged Black Label Movement, dance, dance your phd, explanation, explanations, John Bohannon, Michael Gilbert, visual argument on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some readers of RAIL may already with John Bohannon’s brilliant competition Dance your PhD. In the video below, given at a TED event in Brussels, Bohannon generalizes the point that Dance your PhD essentially makes: Explanations can be effectively delivered in any number of ways. Though the suggestion that dancers might replace the ubiquitous and [...]
“Change in View” at Gilbert Harman’s Website
Posted in Announcements, Connections, News, tagged belief revision, explanation, Gilbert Harman, logic, logic and reasoning, philosophy, reasoning, theory of reasoning on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Harman announced on Twitter today that the full text of his 1987 book on reasoning, Change in View had been made available for free download at his website. Readers of RAIL will, I think, find Harman’s book interesting if they’ve not yet been exposed to it. Chapter 2 in particular will be of interest to [...]
Call for Papers: ExaCt 2010
Posted in CFP, tagged ECAI, ExaCt 2010, explanation on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Call for Papers for the 5th International and ECAI Workshop 2010 on Explanation-aware Computing ExaCt 2010 16-17 August, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal Conference website: http://exact2010.workshop.hm/ Both within AI systems and in interactive systems, the ability to explain reasoning processes and results can substantially affect system usability. For example, in recommender systems good explanations may help to [...]
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