If a Bayesian network is well structured as a poly-tree (at most one path between any two nodes), then probabilities can be computed relatively efficiently.
One kind of algorithm, due to Judea Pearl, uses a message-passing style in which nodes of the network compute probabilities and send them to nodes they are connected to.
Several software packages exist for computing with belief networks.
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