Time-Sliced Influence Diagrams for analytical modeling

Influence Diagrams (IDs) are not only used to display a graphical representation of the qualitative structure of models, but also to improve the communication among subject-matter experts, analyzers, and decisionmakers, by showing the frame of issue discussed from a high-level point of view. This thesis provided a curt overview of IDs and its evaluating, then introduced the extended Time-Sliced IDs and a software tool, EASim, which supporting analytical modeling by Time-Sliced IDs, and finally gave an instance of analytical modeling based on the Time-Sliced IDs and shows some analysis in EASim.