Visualization with hierarchically structured trees for an explanation reasoning system

Author

Sasakura, Mariko ; Yamasaki, Susumu

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Natural Sci. & Technol., Okayama Univ., Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

14-16 July 2004

Firstpage

893

Lastpage

898

Abstract

This work is concerned with an application of drawing hierarchically structured trees. The tree drawing is applied to an explanation reasoning system. The reasoning is based on synthetic abduction (hypothesis) that gets a case from a rule and a result. In other words, the system searches a proper environment to get a desired result. In order that the system may be reliably related to the amount of rules which are used to get the answer, we visualize a process of reasoning to show how rules have concern with the process. Since the process of reasoning in the system makes a hierarchically structured tree, the visualization of reasoning is a drawing of a hierarchically structured tree. We propose a method of visualization that is applicable to the explanation reasoning system.

Keywords

data visualisation; explanation; inference mechanisms; knowledge based systems; trees (mathematics); explanation reasoning system; hierarchically structured trees; reasoning process visualization; synthetic abduction; tree drawing; Clustering algorithms; Computer science; Data visualization; Libraries; Logic; Tree data structures; Tree graphs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualisation, 2004. IV 2004. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2177-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2004.1320247

Filename

1320247