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From: mittal@isi.edu (Vibhu O. Mittal)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re:Bundy's PRESS system (actually Explanation)
Message-ID: <16595@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 22:39:50 GMT
Reply-To: mittal@venera.isi.edu (Vibhu O. Mittal)
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-> From: richard@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Richard Hagen)
-> 
-> I'm interested in the analysis of explanations, and a friend of mine
-> mentioned that he had seen a paper about a system by Alan Bundy called
-> PRESS that might interest me. Unfortunately he couldn't supply me with
-> any details of where he saw it or what it did.
-> 
-> Can anyone help me out with this?
-> 
-> Thanks,
-> 
-> richard

While I cannot give you any information on PRESS' ability for
explaining things, I can give you a pointer to some work by the EES
(Explainable Expert Systems) Group at USC/ISI on explanation. Should
it sound interesting to you, you can drop me a line for further
references or work currently being done here. Apologies for the BibTeX
format. 

Cheers,

  - Vibhu

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@article(SwartoutAIJ,
   Year="1983",
   Month="September",
   Author="Swartout, W. R.",
   Title="XPLAIN:  A System for Creating and Explaining Expert
	  Consulting Systems",   
   Note="Also available as ISI/RS-83-4",
   Journal="Artificial Intelligence",
   Number="3",
   Volume="21",
   Pages="285-325")

@inproceedings(aamsi,
  Author="Swartout, William R.",
  Organization="American Association of Medical Systems and Informatics",
  Pages="102-106",
  FullAuthor="William R. Swartout",
  Title="Beyond XPLAIN:  toward more explainable expert systems",
  Booktitle="Proceedings of the Congress of the American Association of
	     Medical Systems and Informatics", 
  Year="1986")


@InCollection(ClanceyShortliffe-book,
   Author="Swartout, William R.",
   Booktitle="Readings in Medical Artificial Intelligence:  The First Decade",
   Publisher="Addision-Wesley",
   Title="Explaining and Justifying Expert Consulting Programs",
   Year="1984",
   Editors="Clancey, W. and Shortliffe, E.")



@Article(EES,
   Title="Enhanced Maintenance and Explanation of Expert Systems
   Through Explicit Models of Their Development",
   Journal="IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering",
   Number="11",
   Month="November",
   Pages="1337-1351",
   Volume="SE-11",
   Author="Neches, Robert and Swartout, William R. and Moore, Johanna D.",
   Year="1985",
   FullAuthor="Robert Neches, William R. Swartout, and Johanna D.	Moore",
)

@InProceedings(Moore-Swartout,
   Title="A Reactive Approach to Explanation",
   Author="Moore, J. D. and Swartout, W. D.",
   Organization="IJCAI",
   Booktitle="Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on
   Artificial Intelligence",
   Address="Detroit, MI",Pages="1505-1510",Month="August",
   FullAuthor="Johanna D. Moore and William R. Swartout")



@INCOLLECTION{paris-catalina,
   Author  = "C{\'e}cile L. Paris",
   Title   = "{Generation and Explanation: Building an explanation
	      facility for the Explainable Expert Systems framework}",   
   Booktitle  = "Selected papers from the 4th International Workshop on
		 text generation",   
   Publisher = "Kluwer Academic Publishers",
   Year  = "1990",
   Editor  = "C. L. Paris and W. R. Swartout and W. Mann"
}

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