are described in one embodiment the method is a method for controlling a process using a committee of predictive models the process has a plurality of control settings and at least one probe data representative of state of the process the method includes the steps of providing probe data to each model in the model committee so that each model generates a respective output aggregating the model outputs and generating a predictive output based on the aggregating application_number US 29703405 A description fig1 is a schematic illustration of utilizing a system 10 for generating a predictive output utilizing a committee of models 12 and fusion 14 in the example illustrated in fig1 system 10 is utilized in connection with predicting an output from a probe 16 as used herein the term u201c model u201d generally refers to but is not limited to referring to a predictive module that can serve as a proxy for the underlying asset system performance representation and the term u201c committee u201d refers to but is not limited to referring to a collection or set of models that are each capable of doing a similar albeit not exact prediction task system 10 can in one embodiment be implemented within a general purpose computer many different types of computers can be utilized and the present invention is not limited to practice on any one particular computer the term u201c computer u201d as used herein includes desktop and laptop type computers servers microprocessor based systems application specific integrated circuits and any programmable integrated circuit capable of performing the functions described herein in connection with system as shown in fig1 model committee 12 includes multiple predictive models 18 each predictive model 18 generates a predicted output for probe q.