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

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFrontiers of Combining Systems
EditorsRené Thiemann, Christoph Weidenbach
PublisherSpringer, Cham
Pages3-21
Number of pages19
ISBN (electronic)978-3-032-04167-8
ISBN (print)978-3-032-04166-1
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 15 Sept 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume15979
ISSN0302-9743

External IDs

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

Keywords

Keywords

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