Pulcinella: A General Tool for Propagating Uncertainty in Valuation
  Networks
  We present PULCinella and its use in comparing uncertainty theories.
PULCinella is a general tool for Propagating Uncertainty based on the Local
Computation technique of Shafer and Shenoy. It may be specialized to different
uncertainty theories: at the moment, Pulcinella can propagate probabilities,
belief functions, Boolean values, and possibilities. Moreover, Pulcinella
allows the user to easily define his own specializations. To illustrate
Pulcinella, we analyze two examples by using each of the four theories above.
In the first one, we mainly focus on intrinsic differences between theories. In
the second one, we take a knowledge engineer viewpoint, and check the adequacy
of each theory to a given problem.
