In this thesis, we will study different existing methods that can be used to explain decisions taken by time series classification models. We argue that, in the case of time series, the best explanations should take the form of sub-series (also called shapelets) since it is « pattern language » familiar to a time series user. We review state-of-the-art classification methods that can jointly learn a shapelet-based representation of the series in the dataset and classify the series according to this representation. However, although the learned shapelets are discriminative, they are not always similar to pieces of a real series in the dataset. This makes them difficult to use to explain the classifier’s decision. We make use of a simple con...