Patent ID: 7424466

Claim:
A system for fusing evidence in a decision network, the system comprising: memory that stores a decision network that includes a plurality of multiple layers of nodes and associated current node parameters, each node representing a given hypothesis associated with the decision network and the current node parameters comprising belief values and disbelief values in a given hypothesis; and a processing unit for accessing the memory and for executing executable instructions, the executable instructions comprising; a fusion engine algorithm that fuses new evidence with current node parameters of the decision network to provide updated current node parameters, the new evidence being new belief values and new disbelief values associated with one or more respective nodes and associated hypothesis; and a graphical user interface that displays the plurality of multiple layers of nodes and associated links between the plurality of multiple layers of nodes and associated current node parameters in a network view, the graphical user interface having a user override that allows a user to modify current node parameters associated with nodes and back propagate the modified node parameters through the decision network.