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This paper is to introduce Propagation nets as a kind of Petri nets whose flowing objects are uncertain values. The approach is influenced by Bayesian networks (J. Pearl [10]) and probabilistic Horn abduction (D. Pool [12]). In contrast to Bayesian networks, the algorithms are not ”hidden” but part of the nets. The net structure together with a simple firing rule allows uncertain reasoning in backward and forward direction, where backward and forward direction are dual to each other in terms of a Petri net duality. Propagation nets allow to deal with several kinds of uncertainties. This is shown for probabilities, intervals and fuzzy numbers.
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Lautenbach, K. (2014). Propagation Nets. In: Ciardo, G., Kindler, E. (eds) Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency. PETRI NETS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8489. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07734-5_1
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