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Konstantinos Varvoutas

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Hybrid AI for Explainable and Accurate Conversational Agents in eGovernment

We present a so-called Conversational Hybrid AI (CHAI) architecture for building explainable and accurate conversational agents for eGovernment. We exemplify the architecture with a running prototype of a Covid-19 Chatbot based on a governmental guideline directed to citizens. We also describe an ongoing case on case management for supplementary grants for students with disabilities. We use large language models (LLMs) as a bounded conversational interface to a rule-based (symbolic AI) controller that executes a logical model expressing the provisions and obligations of the law and/or guidelines. As logical modelling language we use Dynamic Condition Response (DCR) graphs, a symbolic declarative process-modeling language developed with the aim to be able to express both deontic, defeasible and temporal logic properties, making it suitable for expressing both the rules of the law and the steps of the legal case management processes.

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Rank-based Heuristics for Optimizing the Execution of Product Data Models

The Product Data Model (PDM) is an example of a data-centric approach to modelling information-intensive business processes, which offers exibility and facilitates process optimization. Because the approach is declarative in nature, there may be multiple, alternative execution plans that can produce the desired end product. To generate such plans, several heuristics have been proposed in the literature. The contributions of this work are twofold: (i) we propose new heuristics that capitalize on established techniques for optimizing data-intensive work ows in terms of execution time and cost and transfer them to business processes; and (ii) we extensively evaluate the existing solutions. Our results shed light on the merits of each heuristic and show that our new heuristics can yield significant benefits.

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