Varieties of Explainable Agency
In this paper, I discuss some varieties of explanation that can arisein intelligent agents.I distinguish between process accounts, whichaddress the detailed decisions made during heuristic search, andpreference accounts, which clarify the ordering of alternativesindependent of how they were generated.I also hypothesizewhich types of users will appreciate which types of explanation.In addition, I discuss three facets of multi-step decision making-- conceptual inference, plan generation, and plan execution --in which explanations can arise.I also consider alternative waysto present questions to agents and for them provide their answers.
This position paper analyzes different types of self explanation that can arise in planning and related systems. Discusses different aspects of explanations, particularly in the context of sequential decision making. 