Modelling the stochastic evolution of a largescale fleet or network generally proves to be challenging due to the large number of variables and their interactions. This difficulty may be compounded through complex relationships between various assets in the network. Although a great number of probabilistic graph-based models (e.g., Bayesian networks) have been developed recently to describe the behaviour of single assets, one can find significantly fewer approaches addressing a fully integrated network. An extension to the standard dynamic Bayesian network is proposed by introducing an additional dimension for multiple elements. These elements are then linked through a set of covariates which translate the probabilistic dependencies. A Markov chain is utilized to model the elements and develop a distribution-free mathematical framework to parametrize the transition probabilities without previous data. This is achieved by borrowing from Cooke's method for structured expert judgement and also applied to the quantification of the covariate relationships. Some metrics are also presented for evaluating the sensitivity of information inserted into the covariate-DBN where the focus is given on two specific type of configurations. The model is applied to a real-world example of steel bridge network in the Netherlands which are related through traffic load patterns. Numerical examples highlight the inference mechanism and show the sensitivity of information inserted in various ways. It is shown that information is most valuable very early and decreases substantially over time. Resulting observations entail the reduction of inference combinations and by extension a computational gain to select the most sensitive pieces of information.
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