• M. Christakis (MPI SWS)
• H. Hermanns (U Saarland, Germany)

From autonomous vehicles to Industry 4.0, from smart homes to smart cities – cyber-physical technology increasingly participates in actions and decisions that affect humans. However, our understanding of how these applications interact and what is the cause of a specific automated decision is lagging far behind. This comes with a gradual loss in understanding.

The root cause of this problem is that contemporary systems do not have any built-in concepts to explicate their behaviour. They calculate and propagate outcomes of computations, but are not designed to provide explanations. They are not perspicuous.

The key to enable comprehension in a cyber-physical world is a science of perspicuous computing. This session will discuss the foundational, the industrial and the societal dimensions of the perspicuous computing challenge. It is organized by the Center for Perspicuous Computing – TRR 248 – a Collaborative Research Center funded by the German Research Foundation DFG.

• Introduction: “Enabling comprehension in a cyber-physical world with the human in the loop”
  Holger Hermanns, Universität des Saarlandes
• Panel: “Is industry or society in need for perspicuous computing? Both? Or neither?”
  • Panel Moderator: Christel Baier, Technische Universität Dresden
  • Panelists:
    • Bernd Finkbeiner

      CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

    • Christof Fetzer

      Technische Universität Dresden

    • Raimund Dachselt

      Technische Universität Dresden

    • Prof. Rupak Majumdar

      Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

    • Dr. Lena Kästner

      Universität des Saarlandes, representing EIS