Systems and methods are provided for fusing new evidence and displaying
node parameters of a decision network. The decision network can be a
belief network, such as a Dempster-Shafer belief network. The
Dempster-Shafer belief network includes node parameters that conform to
the Dempster-Shafer combination rule, which is based on an evidential
interval: the sum of a belief value, a disbelief value and an unknown
value is equal to one. A user override is provided to allow a user to
override node parameters associated with a hypothesis or outcome and the
decision network self-adjusts the appropriate link values or learned to
instantiate the override. The back-propagation algorithm is used to
adjust the links.