The Concrete Evonne: Visualization Meets Concrete Domain Reasoning

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Abstract

Evonne is a web application primarily designed to explain Description Logic (DL) entailments using an interactive visualization approach for proofs. This paper introduces an extension of Evonne to DLs with concrete domains, which are needed for formalizing concepts whose definitions involve quantitative information. Specifically, we focus on two extensions of the DL EL: one with constraints formulated as linear equations and the other with difference constraints. First, we have extended Evonne to enable the generation and presentation of proofs involving these concrete domains. Then, leveraging the unique properties of each domain, we have designed and incorporated alternative visual explanations for the numerical parts of the proofs. Finally, we have assessed the effectiveness of these visual explanations through qualitative user studies and a performance benchmark. While opinions on one of these explanations varied, the other was widely recognized for its clarity and ease of understanding.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelFrontiers of Combining Systems
Redakteure/-innenRené Thiemann, Christoph Weidenbach
Herausgeber (Verlag)Springer, Cham
Seiten3-21
Seitenumfang19
ISBN (elektronisch)978-3-032-04167-8
ISBN (Print)978-3-032-04166-1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 15 Sept. 2025
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheLecture Notes in Computer Science
Band15979
ISSN0302-9743

Externe IDs

Scopus 105017121505
ORCID /0000-0001-9936-0943/work/195437368
ORCID /0000-0002-4049-221X/work/195437731
ORCID /0000-0002-2176-876X/work/195440825
ORCID /0000-0003-1029-7656/work/199216126

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Description Logic, Visualization, Explainable AI, Linear Equations, Difference Constraints, Concrete Domains