Abstract The most promising standard machine learning methods can deliver highly accurate classification results, often outperforming white-box methods. However, it is hardly possible for humans to fully understand the rationale behind black-box and thus, these powerful hamper creation of new knowledge on part broader acceptance this technology. Explainable Artificial Intelligence attempts over...

Abstract I propose a qualitative Bayesian account of explanatory goodness that is analogous to the incremental confirmation. This achieved by means complexity criterion according which an explanation h good if reduction in explanandum e brought about (the gain) greater than additional introduced context cost). To illustrate account, apply it ad hoc hypotheses.

The success of the ERP systems is an important issue in the scientific literature of the area. Nevertheless, and as a result of its newness, mainly the investigation of the phenomenon has been of type descriptive or it has been oriented to qualitative methodologies. In this work we presented an explanatory model of the phenomenon and its empirical validation in a set of Chilean organizations. T...

Youth involved in the juvenile justice system are at high risk for mental health problems, particularly depression. Furthermore, these youth often present with a history of childhood maltreatment. Despite research consistently demonstrating a link between childhood maltreatment and depression, our understanding of intervening factors of this relationship remains limited. This study examined imp...

Rather than examining the effect of the pessimistic explanatory style on an outcome variable reflecting a single domain, I studied the effects of multiple learned-helplessness risk factors on behavioral, cognitive, and affective variables. Undergraduate students completed the Learned Helplessness Scale (Quinless & McDermott-Nelson, 1988) as a measure of their expectation of uncontrollability an...

INTRODUCTION Loneliness is a subjective, negative feeling related to the person's own experience of deficient social relations. The determinants of loneliness are most often defined on the basis of 2 causal models. The first model examines the external factors, which are absent in the social network, as the root of the loneliness; while the second explanatory model refers to the internal factor...

Sex discrimination in compensation is traditionally understood within a pay equity framework. Quite simply, “Are women paid the same as men in similarly situated jobs after controlling for legitimate explanatory factors?” In application, pay differences that cannot be accounted for by reasonable explanatory factors (e.g., tenure, performance) is evidence of sex discrimination in compensation an...

Many empirical works have been devoted to analysing the factors explaining local privatisation. Overall, most of the empirical analyses have low explanatory power due to the methodological difficulties in capturing the dynamic nature of the privatisation decision. The variables most often considered are those related to fiscal stress and cost reduction and political processes and ideological at...

Abstract. This paper investigates the performance of explanatory or abductive inference in certain hypothesis selection tasks. The strategy is to use various measures of explanatory power to compare competing hypotheses and then make an inference to the best explanation. Computer simulations are used to compare the accuracy of such approaches with a standard approach when uncertainty is present...