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Making AI reasoning transparent and traceable: KERAIA introduces "Lines of Thought" (LoTs) as a core feature to make AI decision-making visible and interpretable. This addresses a key concern in responsible AI—the ability to understand and audit how an AI system arrived at its conclusions, particularly important for high-stakes applications.
Bridging human expertise and AI systems: The framework tackles the challenge of converting human knowledge and tacit expertise into forms that AI can use effectively. This is crucial for responsible AI deployment, as it ensures systems are built on validated human knowledge rather than purely data-driven patterns that may encode biases.
Handling complex, changing contexts: KERAIA's use of "Dynamic Relations" and "Clouds of Knowledge" allows the system to adapt reasoning based on context and changing circumstances. This is important for responsible AI because real-world decisions often depend on contextual factors, and systems that can adjust their reasoning accordingly are less likely to apply rigid rules inappropriately.
Explainability as a foundational principle, not an afterthought: Rather than adding explainability features to an existing system, KERAIA is designed from the ground up with transparency as a core principle. This design philosophy is increasingly recognized as essential for building trustworthy AI systems that stakeholders can confidently deploy and oversee.

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In this paper, we introduce KERAIA, a novel framework and software platform for symbolic knowledge engineering designed to address the persistent challenges of representing, reasoning with, and executing knowledge in dynamic, complex, and context-sensitive environments. The central research question that motivates this work is: How can unstructured, often tacit, human expertise be effectively transformed into computationally tractable algorithms that AI systems can efficiently utilise? KERAIA seeks to bridge this gap by building on foundational concepts such as Minsky's frame-based reasoning and K-lines, while introducing significant innovations. These include Clouds of Knowledge for dynamic aggregation, Dynamic Relations (DRels) for context-sensitive inheritance, explicit Lines of Thought (LoTs) for traceable reasoning, and Cloud Elaboration for adaptive knowledge transformation. This approach moves beyond the limitations of traditional, often static, knowledge representation paradigms. KERAIA is designed with Explainable AI (XAI) as a core principle, ensuring transparency and interpretability, particularly through the use of LoTs. The paper details the framework's architecture, the KSYNTH representation language, and the General Purpose Paradigm Builder (GPPB) to integrate diverse inference methods within a unified structure. We validate KERAIA's versatility, expressiveness, and practical applicability through detailed analysis of multiple case studies spanning naval warfare simulation, industrial diagnostics in water treatment plants, and strategic decision-making in the game of RISK. Furthermore, we provide a comparative analysis against established knowledge representation paradigms (including ontologies, rule-based systems, and knowledge graphs) and discuss the implementation aspects and computational considerations of the KERAIA platform.

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Key Takeaways

Making AI reasoning transparent and traceable: KERAIA introduces "Lines of Thought" (LoTs) as a core feature to make AI decision-making visible and interpretable. This addresses a key concern in responsible AI—the ability to understand and audit how an AI system arrived at its conclusions, particularly important for high-stakes applications.
Bridging human expertise and AI systems: The framework tackles the challenge of converting human knowledge and tacit expertise into forms that AI can use effectively. This is crucial for responsible AI deployment, as it ensures systems are built on validated human knowledge rather than purely data-driven patterns that may encode biases.
Handling complex, changing contexts: KERAIA's use of "Dynamic Relations" and "Clouds of Knowledge" allows the system to adapt reasoning based on context and changing circumstances. This is important for responsible AI because real-world decisions often depend on contextual factors, and systems that can adjust their reasoning accordingly are less likely to apply rigid rules inappropriately.
Explainability as a foundational principle, not an afterthought: Rather than adding explainability features to an existing system, KERAIA is designed from the ground up with transparency as a core principle. This design philosophy is increasingly recognized as essential for building trustworthy AI systems that stakeholders can confidently deploy and oversee.

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22 pages

KERAIA: An Adaptive and Explainable Framework for Dynamic Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

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KERAIA: An Adaptive and Explainable Framework for Dynamic Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

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