Agenda

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Day 1 - July 22
08:45 Technical preparations / Setup
09:00 Welcome and Overview (Thomas Roth-Berghofer / David Leake)
09:15 Introduction of participants
09:30 Invited Talk: Doug Walton "Dialogical models of explanation" (slides)
10:30Coffee break
11:00 "A discourse approach to explanation aware knowledge representation" (slides)
Andrew Potter
11:30 "A categorization of explanation questions for task processing systems" (slides)
Deborah L. McGuinness,  Alyssa Glass, Michael Wolverton, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva 
12:00Lunch break
13:30 "How to build explanations of machine-found proofs: A methodology and requirements on domain representations" (slides)
Helmut Horacek 
14:00 "An MDP approach for explanation generation" (slides)
Francisco Elizalde Flores, Enrique Sucar, Alberto Reyes, Pablo de Buen
 14:30 "A modular explanation interlingua" (slides)
Deborah L. McGuinness, Li Ding, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Cynthia Chang
15:00 Topic acquisition for Topic Groups discussions
We will select three or four topics that are of interest to the symposium attendees and assign each topic to a discussion group. Groups will discuss them privately and later report their results.
15:30Coffee break
16:00 "Solving the Minimum number of Open Stacks Problem with explanation-based techniques“ (slides)
Narendra Jussien, Hadrien Cambazard
16:30– Topic Groups meet on their own and start discussing
 19:30 Joint dinner at a restaurant
Traditionally, we–the organizers–try to find a nice restaurant where we–all workshop attendees–can talk about a bit more than this workshop.

Day 2 - July 23
09:15 Welcome back
09:30 Invited talk: Bruce Porter "A new class of knowledge systems and their explanation requirements"
10:30Coffee break
11:00 "Designing explanation-aware systems: The quest for Explanation Patterns"
Jörg Cassens, Anders Kofod-Petersen
11:30Lunch break
13:00 "Exploitation of argumentation models for mission analysis review"  (slides)
Micheline Belanger
"Learning models from temporal-logic properties via explanation"
David A. Rosenblueth, Miguel Carrillo
"Generating explanations using a classical planner and modelling reasoning processes, skills and knowledge"  (slides)
Alan Wheeldon
14:00
Demo Session (Daniel Bahls) 
The demo session will start with a short presentation (max. 3 minutes each) to all of the workshop participants in order to provide a quick overview.
  • "Forward and backward explanations in myCBR" (Daniel Bahls, TRB)
  • (more titles to be announced)
15:00 Preparation of results of Topic Groups discussions
Each topic group should collect its results and prepare to make a short presentation for discussion. Groups should use PowerPoint (or similar) as a way of documenting their results for further discussion and (optionally) as the basis for proposing follow-on workshops on promising topics.
15:30Coffee break
16:00 Presentation of results of the Topic Groups discussions
16:45–17:00
Wrap-up and closing