Interpretable and Explainable AI Applications
A special issue of AI (ISSN 2673-2688).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 14707
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: deep learning; XAI; human-centric AI; case-based reasoning; data mining; fuzzy logic and other machine learning and machine intelligence approaches for analytics—especially in big data
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Interests: use-inspired textual agents; explainable agency; case-based reasoning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The sub-fields of interpretable machine learning (IML) and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) have substantial overlap. Both are concerned with the broader goal that AI systems, those that include AI methods, need to be interpretable to users and designers. AI is a much broader field than ML, so these fields have a great deal of synergy and must consider one another’s contributions. This Special Issue will target contributions that consider the broader view of the field that aims to investigate how AI systems explain themselves, either via interpretability or a combination of interpretability and explainability. IML/XAI will also play a vital role in sustainability issues with the sustainable development of AI applications as humans/society can trust AI.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a leading forum for the timely, in-depth presentation of recent advances in the research and development of interpretability and explainability techniques for AI applications.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- How artificial intelligence methods and systems explain their decisions;
- Interpretability of AI models and methods;
- Validation of explainability or interpretability approaches for AI;
- Robustness of methods for interpretability and explainability;
- Applications adopting AI methods with explainability or interpretability methods;
- Applications benefiting from different types of explanation contents, e.g., counterfactuals, feature attribution, instance attribution;
- Social aspects of explainability and interpretability in AI;
- Accountability of AI systems.
Please include in your submission a statement regarding whether your manuscript’s contribution is in computing and engineering or in social aspects. If your submission includes contributions in both aspects, please indicate which authors are contributing to each.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sustainability.
Prof. Dr. Mobyen Uddin Ahmed
Prof. Dr. Rosina O. Weber
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- explainability
- interpretability
- artificial intelligence applications
- validation
- accountability
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