Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

As was mentioned earlier in this article, Type Curves that are generated using mathematical equations are very "well-behaved" (continuous, non-linear, certain shape that changes in a similar fashion from curve to curve). Figure 16 demonstrates few more examples of Type Curves that have been generated in reservoir engineering. The question is, "what is the main characteristic of a model that is capable of generating series of well-behave Type Curves?" The immediate, simple answer to this question would be: "the model that is capable of generating a series of well-behave Type Curves is a physics-based model developed by one or more mathematical equations. The well-behave Type Curves that clearly explain the behavior of the physics-based model are generated through the solutions of the mathematical equations."