Application of Bayesian networks to the evaluation of roofing slate quality

It can be concluded from the results that Bayesian networks are an extremely useful automated tool for evaluating the quality of a resource such as slate for the following reasons: they allow final quality to be assessed immediately and in probabilistic terms with a tolerable degree of uncertainty; they enable the probability of obtaining different final qualities to be estimated when new data is introduced into the network; they speed up the evaluation process by simulating and optimising the work of the expert (during field data collection and borehole description) in identifying the parameters with the greatest influence on final quality; and finally, they have a satisfactory capacity for prediction.