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Kary Främling

Professor in data science, with emphasis in data analysis and machine learning. Head of explainable AI (XAI) team.
WASP Professor (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program)

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MIT-huset, Umeå universitet, MIT.E.241 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

My core research at Umeå University focuses on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and notably on so-called "outcome explanation", i.e. explaining and/or justifying results, actions or recommendations made by any kind of AI systems, including (deep or not) neural networks. A core technology is the Contextual Importance and Utility (CIU) method that I developed during my PhD thesis in 1991-1996.  

During 2000-2018, domains such as Intelligent products, Internet of Things, Digital Twin (or Virtual Counterpart/Product Agent) and Systems of Systems were my core domains of research. My research on XAI maintains a strong connection with those domains, i.e. for enabling the use of AI in everyday products and life. Explainability is crucial for ensuring that AI remains "humane", which signifies that AI systems should be able to communicate the reasons for their actions and intentions in ways that are understandable by different end-users and appropriate to the real-life situation at hand. 

Explainable and transparent AI and multi-agent systems: 6th international workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2024, Auckland, New Zealand, May 6–10, 2024, revised selected papers, Cham: Springer 2024 : v-v
Calvaresi, Davide; Najjar, Amro; Omicini, Andrea; et al.
XAI 2024 Workshop of 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024), Jeju, South Corea
Främling, Kary
Explainable and transparent AI and multi-agent systems: 6th international workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2024, Auckland, New Zealand, May 6–10, 2024, revised selected papers, Cham: Springer 2024 : 184-188
Främling, Kary; Apopei, Ioan-Vlad; Grund Pihlgren, Gustav; et al.
Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, Springer Nature 2024, Vol. 31, (5) : 2537-2556
Huotari, Matti; Malhi, Avleen; Främling, Kary
Explainable and transparent ai and multi-agent systems: 5th international workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2023, London, UK, May 29, 2023, revised selected papers, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2023 : VI-VI
Calvaresi, Davide; Omicini, Andrea; Najjar, Amro; et al.
Explainable and transparent ai and multi-agent systems: 5th international workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2023, London, UK, May 29, 2023, revised selected papers, Springer Nature 2023 : 180-184
Främling, Kary
Explainable artificial intelligence: first world conference, xAI 2023 Lisbon, Portugal, July 26– 28, 2023 proceedings, part I, Cham: Springer Nature 2023 : 241-259
Främling, Kary
NII Shonan Meeting Report, 200
Främling, Kary; Lim, Brian; Katharina, Rohlfing
Explainable artificial intelligence: First world conference, xAI 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, july 26-28, 2023, proceedings, part I, Springer Nature 2023 : 606-617
Malhi, Avleen; Apopei, Vlad; Främling, Kary
Explainable artificial intelligence: First World Conference, xAI 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, July 26–28, 2023, Proceedings, Part I, Springer Nature 2023 : 544-557
Malhi, Avleen; Främling, Kary
Proceedings - 2023 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2023, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2023 : 130-135
Malhi, Avleen; Javed, Asad; Yousefnezhad, Narges; et al.
Explainable Artificial Intelligence: First World Conference, xAI 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, July 26–28, 2023, Proceedings, Part I, Cham: Springer 2023 : 115-130
Patil, Minal; Främling, Kary
Artificial Neural Networksand Machine Learning – ICANN 2023: 32nd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 26–29, 2023, Proceedings, Part I, Springer 2023 : 504-515
Patil, Minal Suresh; Främling, Kary
ICSRS 2023: 7th international conference on system reliability and safety, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2023 : 434-438
Patil, Minal Suresh; Främling, Kary
Sensors, MDPI 2023, Vol. 23, (6)
Yousefnezhad, Narges; Malhi, Avleen; Keyriläinen, Tuomas; et al.
Explainable and transparent AI and multi-agent systems: 4th International Workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2022, Virtual Event, May 9–10, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Springer Nature 2022 : vi-vi
Calvaresi, Davide; Najjar, Amro; Winikoff, Michael; et al.
Neural Computing & Applications, Springer 2022, Vol. 34, (3) : 2157-2176
Fouladgar, Nazanin; Alirezaie, Marjan; Främling, Kary
IEEE Access, IEEE 2022, Vol. 10 : 23995-24009
Fouladgar, Nazanin; Alirezaie, Marjan; Främling, Kary
AI 2021: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 34th Australasian Joint Conference, AI 2021, Sydney, NSW, Australia, February 2–4, 2022, Proceedings, Cham: Springer Nature 2022 : 117-128
Främling, Kary
Intelligent Buildings International, Taylor & Francis 2022, Vol. 14, (6) : 753-765
Halmetoja, Esa; Salonen, Heidi; Ihasalo, Heikki; et al.
2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (BDAI), IEEE 2022 : 82-86
Huotari, Matti; Främling, Kary
Explainable and transparent AI and multi-agent systems: 4th international workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2022, virtual event, May 9–10, 2022, revised selected papers, Springer Nature 2022 : 57-71
Malhi, Avleen; Apopei, Vlad; Madhikermi, Manik; et al.
Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services: 18th EAI International Conference, MobiQuitous 2021, Virtual Event, November 8-11, 2021, Proceedings, Springer 2022 : 513-519
Malhi, Avleen; Madhikermi, Manik; Huotari, Matti; et al.
Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2021, Virtual Event, May 3–7, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Springer 2021 : 83-96
Anjomshoae, Sule; Jiang, Lili; Främling, Kary
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer 2021, Vol. 12688 : v-vi
Calvaresi, Davide; Najjar, Amro; Winikoff, Michael; et al.
AIxIA 2020 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence: XIXth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Event, November 25–27, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, Springer 2021 : 3-18
Fouladgar, Nazanin; Alirezaie, Marjan; Främling, Kary
Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Explainable Agency in Artificial Intelligence, at 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual: 2021 : 110-114
Främling, Kary
Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2021, Virtual Event, May 3–7, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Springer 2021 : 55-62
Främling, Kary; Knapic̆, Samanta; Malhi, Avleen
Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2021, Virtual Event, May 3–7, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Springer 2021 : 39-54
Främling, Kary; Westberg, Marcus; Jullum, Martin; et al.
Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier 2021, Vol. 111
Huotari, Matti; Arora, Shashank; Malhi, Avleen; et al.
Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction, MDPI 2021, Vol. 3, (3) : 740-770
Knapič, Samanta; Malhi, Avleen; Saluja, Rohit; et al.
ESANN 2021 proceedings, 29th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, ESANN 2021 : 593-598
Madhikermi, Manik; Malhi, Avleen; Främling, Kary
2021 Eighth International Conference on Social Network Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS)
Malhi, Avleen; Madhikermi, Manik; Maharjan, Yaman; et al.
Computers in industry (Print), Elsevier 2021, Vol. 125
Mattila, Juri; Seppälä, Timo; Valkama, Pellervo; et al.
IEEE Access, IEEE 2021, Vol. 9 : 59231-59243
Najjar, Amro; Mualla, Yazan; Singh, Kamal Deep; et al.
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI '21 Extended Abstracts)
Omeiza, Daniel; Anjomshoae, Sule; Kollnig, Konrad; et al.
Sensors, MDPI 2021, Vol. 21, (8)
Yousefnezhad, Narges; Malhi, Avleen; Främling, Kary
Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop on Explainable, Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2021, Virtual Event, May 3–7, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Springer 2021 : 223-240
Zelvelder, Amber; Westberg, Marcus; Främling, Kary
Proceedings
Anjomshoae, Sule; Kampik, Timotheus; Främling, Kary
Proceedings of the Italian Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Aachen 2020 : 1-13
Fouladgar, Nazanin; Alirezaie, Marjan; Främling, Kary
Sensors, MDPI 2020, Vol. 20, (10)
Fouladgar, Nazanin; Främling, Kary
Explainable, Transparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Second International Workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2020, Auckland, New Zealand, May 9–13, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, Cham: Springer 2020 : 57-74
Främling, Kary
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
Huotari, Matti; Arora, Shashank; Malhi, Avleen; et al.
IEEE Access, IEEE 2020, Vol. 8 : 224318-224342
Javed, Asad; Kubler, Sylvain; Malhi, Avleen; et al.
2020 16th international wireless communications & mobile computing conference, IWCMC, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2020 : 1541-1548
Javed, Asad; Malhi, Avleen; Främling, Kary
IEEE Access, IEEE 2020, Vol. 8 : 211973-211985
Javed, Asad; Malhi, Avleen; Kinnunen, Tuomas; et al.
Journal of Grid Computing, Springer 2020, Vol. 18 : 57-80
Javed, Asad; Robert, Jérémy; Heljanko, Keijo; et al.
EXTRAAMAS: International Workshop on Explainable, Transparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Explainable, Transparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Switzerland: Springer Nature 2020 : 129-146
Malhi, Avleen; Knapic, Samanta; Främling, Kary

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XAI – Explainable AI