IoXT: The Internet of Explainable Things. Why Explainability in IoT Requires a New System-Level Paradigm and Protocol Design

arXiv:2608.08556 · cs.ET, cs.CR · Submitted 2026-08-09 · Read on arXiv

Michael Georgiades

cs.ET, cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-08-09

Updated: 2026-08-11

Comments: 20 pages, 1 figure

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Trace — 55× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Explainability — 31× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Provenance — 24× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Internet of Things — 18× in this paper
• Calibration — 8× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Accountability — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Addressability — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Editor — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Temporal Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abstraction — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Explainable AI (XAI) — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Feature Importance — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Preservation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Data Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Digital Twin — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Feedback Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems — 1× in this paper
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Resource Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Self-Explaining Neural Networks — 1× in this paper

Sources

• C-SENN: Contrastive Self-Explaining Neural Network
• A Methodology and Software Architecture to Support Explainability-by-Design

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