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Partial informedness stemming from local observation, confined communication bandwidth, and protection of sensitive information is a general constraint to intelligent agents in open multi-agent complex systems-of-systems. Understanding the diverse information frames induced by such partial informedness obviously is instrumental to determining the need for and comprehensibility of an explanation by an addressee agent, as well as for evaluating the ability of an explainer agent to determine such need and to generate a suitable explanation. However, astonishingly little research has been pursued addressing this particular problem. The distributed detection of operational conflicts in the emergent joint behaviour of multi-agent systems and the generation of action-oriented explanations resolving such conflicts remain hard and mostly unsolved computational problems.