The paper entitled “Towards explainable decision support using hybrid neural models for logistic terminal automation” (R. D’Elia, A. Termine, and F. Flammini -TAS group members) has been accepted for publication in conference proceedings and presented at the International Summer Conference 2025 (ISC25) “Intelligent Systems & Decision Making: Human Insights in the Era of AI”, held in July 19-20 2025 at the University of Catania, Sicily, Italy.
The work has been developed within the AutoMoTIF research project, funded by the European Union and by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SERI). See also:
https://www.supsi.ch/en/idsia-usi-supsi-alla-guida-dell-unit%C3%A0-ai-nel-progetto-europeo-automotif
Please find below abstract and keywords of the research.
Abstract. The integration of Deep Learning (DL) in System Dynamics (SD) modeling for transportation logistics offers significant advantages in scalability and predictive accuracy. However, these gains are often offset by the loss of explainability and causal reliability that are key requirements in critical decision-making systems. This paper presents a novel framework for interpretable-by-design neural system dynamics modeling that synergizes DL with techniques from Concept-Based Interpretability, Mechanistic Interpretability, and Causal Machine Learning. The proposed hybrid approach enables the construction of neural network models that operate on semantically meaningful and actionable variables, while retaining the causal grounding and transparency typical of traditional SD models. The framework is conceived to be applied to real-world case-studies from the EU-funded project AutoMoTIF (https://automotif-project.eu), focusing on data-driven decision support, automation, and optimization of multimodal logistic terminals. We aim at showing how neuro-symbolic methods can bridge the gap between black-box predictive models and the need for critical decision support in complex dynamical environments within cyber-physical systems enabled by the industrial Internet-of-Things.
Keywords: artificial intelligence, XAI, IoT, trustworthy autonomous systems, transportation, cognitive digital twins.
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