Etienne Houzé

Télécom ParisTech · Computer Science

With the increasing number of connected devices, complex systems such as smart homes record a multitude of events of various types, magnitude and characteristics. Current systems struggle to identify which events can be considered more memorable than others. In contrast, humans are able to quickly categorize some events as being more “memorable” th...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been a prominent application for Intelligent Systems in recent years. While the increasing demand for explanations led to many advances in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), most solutions focus on systems where a single agent takes all decisions to be explained. However within the IoT context, Cyber-Physica...

Research in Cognitive Science suggests that humans understand and represent knowledge of the world through causal relationships. In addition to observations, they can rely on experimenting and counterfactual reasoning -- i.e. referring to an alternative course of events -- to identify causal relations and explain atypical situations. Different inst...

Smart homes are, at the time being, more "connected" than "smart". Users should be able to ask smart houses to explain anomalies or surprising behaviours generated by their autonomic controllers. Yet most systems still fail to provide relevant answers to questions as simple as "Why is it hotter than usual ?". We tackle this issue, adopting a hierar...