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 and changing problem descriptions,
effective communication between human and software system is vital.
Explanations exchanged between human agents and software agents may
play a key role in such mixed-initiative problem solving. For
example, explanations may increase the confidence of the user in
specific results or in the system as a whole, by providing evidence of
how the results were derived. AI research has also focused on
how computer systems can themselves use explanations, for example to
guide learning. (more…)