@article{Ciatto:9059,
      recid = {9059},
      author = {Ciatto, Giovanni and Najjar, Amro and Calbimonte,  Jean-Paul and Calvaresi, Davide},
      title = {Towards explainable visionary agents : license to dare and  imagine},
      publisher = {3-7 May 2021},
      journal = {Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems :  Third International Workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2021, Virtual  Event, May 3–7, 2021, Revised Selected Papers},
      address = {London, UK. 2021-05},
      number = {CONFERENCE},
      pages = {Pp. 139-157},
      abstract = {Since their appearance, computer programs have embodied  discipline and structured approaches and methodologies.  Yet, to this day, equipping machines with imaginative and  creative capabilities remains one of the most challenging  and fascinating goals we pursue. Intelligent software  agents can behave intelligently in well-defined scenarios,  relying on Machine Learning (ML), symbolic reasoning, and  the ability of their developers for tailoring smart  behaviors to specific application domains. However, to  forecast the evolution of all possible scenarios is  unfeasible. Thus, intelligent agents should  autonomously/creatively adapt to the world’s mutability.  This paper investigates the meaning of imagination in the  context of cognitive agents. In particular, it addresses  techniques and approaches to let agents autonomously  imagine/simulate their course of action and generate  explanations supporting it, and formalizes thematic  challenges. Accordingly, we investigate research areas  including: (i) reasoning and automatic theorem proving to  synthesize novel knowledge via inference; (ii) automatic  planning and simulation, used to speculate over alternative  courses of action; (iii) machine learning and data mining,  exploited to induce new knowledge from experience; and (iv)  biochemical coordination, which keeps imagination dynamic  by continuously reorganizing it.},
      url = {http://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/9059},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82017-6_9},
}