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Creating executable models of influence nets with colored Petri nets.

Wagenhals, Lee W.; Shin, Insub; Levis, Alexander H.

In: International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, Vol. 2, No. 2: Special section on coloured Petri nets, pages 168-181. 1998. ISSN 1433-2779; available at http://sttt.cs.uni-dortmund.de/.

Abstract: This paper describes a methodology for converting an influence net to a dynamic executable model, implemented using the colored Petri net (CPN) formalism and tools, so that it can be used to assess the impact of a set of controllable events or actions on outcomes of interest; specifically, assess the impact of various sequences and timing of those actionable events. With this methodology, alternative courses of action, first defined using influence nets, which are static equilibrium models, can be refined by adding sequence and timing information for analysis and comparison. The techniques developed offer a means to integrate intelligence and operational planning models to improve course of action development. The paper includes a description of the automated algorithms that convert an influence net to a colored Petri net and illustrates how that model can be used for the analysis of alternative courses of action.

Keywords: High-level Petri nets - Colored Petri nets - Influence nets - Bayesian nets - Course of action - Discrete event dynamical systems.


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