Explanatory AI for pertinent communication in autonomic systems

Marius Pol, Jean Louis Dessalles, Ada Diaconescu

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Abstract

Autonomic computing systems maintain high-level goals by continuously adapting to a changing environment, yet their internal operations have no comprehensible meaning to humans. This paper proposes a dialogue management system based on a communication interface acting as a bridge between subsymbolic and symbolic knowledge representation levels. The communication interface explains the autonomic system operation in a human comprehensible form by representing the sensed data in conceptual spaces. Based on a knowledge base generated by the communication interface, the dialogue management system produces a pertinent flow of conversation between autonomic systems and humans, activating only when exceptional situations are encountered. Our approach is incremental, with the objective of enabling pertinent communication with any artificial system. We build a proof-of-concept implementation of the proposed solution in a smart home platform managed by an autonomic system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Systems and Applications - Proceedings of the 2019 Intelligent Systems Conference IntelliSys Volume 1
EditorsYaxin Bi, Rahul Bhatia, Supriya Kapoor
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages212-227
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783030295158
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2020
Externally publishedYes
EventIntelligent Systems Conference, IntelliSys 2019 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 5 Sept 20196 Sept 2019

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume1037
ISSN (Print)2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)2194-5365

Conference

ConferenceIntelligent Systems Conference, IntelliSys 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period5/09/196/09/19

Keywords

  • Argumentation
  • Automated planning
  • Autonomic computing
  • Conceptual spaces
  • Dialogue management

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