A review of explanation methods for heuristic expert systems

  • Authors:
  • Carmen Lacave;Francisco J. Diez

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Paseo de la Universidad, 4, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain/ e-mail: carmen.lacave&commat/uclm.es;Department of Artificial Intelligence, UNED, Avda. Juan del Rosal, 16, 28040 Madrid, Spain/ e-mail: fjdiez&commat/dia.uned.es

  • Venue:
  • The Knowledge Engineering Review
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Explanation of reasoning is one of the most important abilities an expert system should provide in order to be widely accepted. In fact, since MYCIN, many expert systems have tried to include some explanation capability. This paper reviews the methods developed to date for explanation in heuristic expert systems.