Probability Assessment of Interactive Markov Chain (IMC)

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Firstly, consider a Markov chain in your mind. Probability of each state of the Markov chain can be obtained by following Chapman–Kolmogorov equation.

$$ P(n\Delta t) = M^{n}P(0) $$

where P is the probability vector, P(0) is initial probability vector and M is transition matrix of Markov chain.

Secondly and now, my problem is about Interactive Markov Chain (IMC). For example, consider following IMC model.

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As can be seen, this model has a similarity to Petri Nets. However, I need to know how I can one achieve the probability of each state of this model? In the literature, always authors use software tool but I need a solution by hand on paper not through software tool.

Thanks a lot.