p-95-04

An Architecture for Goal-Driven Explanation

Raja Sooriamurthi and David B. Leake

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Florida Artificial Intelligence
Research Symposium, Melbourne, FL, pp. 218-222, 1995.

Abstract

In complex and changing environments explanation must be a dynamic
and goal-driven process.  This paper discusses an evolving system
implementing a novel model of explanation generation --- Goal-Driven
Interactive Explanation --- that models explanation as a goal-driven,
multi-strategy, situated process inter-weaving reasoning with action.
We describe a preliminary implementation of this model in GOBIE, a
system that generates explanations for its internal use to support
plan generation and execution.


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