How Everything Is Connected in NRP

Explanation of the logical data model. If you want to work with the code, you need to understand this. Might even help if you are using the code...

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1. Everything in NRP
   is connected to
   everything else.
   

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2. NRP has 3 levels...and they are connected like so
   Actuals
   Plan
   Recipe
   Input
   Event
   Output
   Event
   Resource
   Input
   Event
   Resource
   Process
   Planned
   Input
   Planned
   Output
   Planned
   Input
   Process
   Process
   Type
   Input
   Type
   Output
   Type
   Resource
   Type
   Input
   Type
   Resource
   Type
   Process
   Type
   The Plan level depends on Recipes and prepares for Actuals.
   

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3. This the core model, which you need to understand to work on the software.
   Sorry about that, but it’s as simple as possible - but no simpler.
   

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4. In NRP, you are an Economic Agent.
   

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5. You may be connected to other Agents by means of Agent Associations.
   

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6. You are connected to all of the Economic Events you have participated in.
   They may be many types of Events: Work, Production, Consumption, etc.
   

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7. Economic Events change Economic Resources.
   They may create, consume, use, cite, provide, or transfer Resources.
   

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8. You may own or have custody or have some other responsibility
   for Economic Resources
   

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9. Economic Events may be connected to Processes.
   They may be inputs to, or outputs from, Processes.
   

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10. If the same Resource is an output from one Process and then an input to
    another Process, then those Processes are connected by a resource flow.
    

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11. Economic Events may also Transfer Resources from one Agent to another
    by means of Exchanges.
    

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12. If the same Resource is transferred in an Exchange and then becomes an
    input to a Process, then the Exchange and the Process are connected.
    

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13. Likewise if the same Resource is an output from a Process
    and then transferred in an Exchange.
    

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14. And likewise if the same Resource is transferred in one Exchange and then
    transferred again in another.
    

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15. Processes and Exchanges may be planned
    by means of Commitments.
    

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16. Commitments are plans for Economic Events
    that have not happened yet.
    

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17. Commitments may be parts of Orders:
    “Customer/Purchase” Orders (planned trades) are groups of Exchange Commitments.
    

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18. “Work Orders” (planned production) are groups of Process Commitments.
    

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19. Everything has a Type.
    

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20. Types are for configuring the system, setting policies,
    and modeling repeatable Process/Exchange flows.
    

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21. Repeatable Process/Exchange flows
    are called Recipes.
    

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22. A food
    processing
    recipe
    

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23. Here’s how it all fits together in a flow again
    Actuals
    Plan
    Recipe
    Input
    Event
    Output
    Event
    Resource
    Input
    Event
    Resource
    Process
    Planned
    Input
    Planned
    Output
    Planned
    Input
    Process
    Process
    Type
    Input
    Type
    Output
    Type
    Resource
    Type
    Input
    Type
    Resource
    Type
    Process
    Type
    

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24. Actuals:
    Salsa
    Events
    Plan:
    Order for 12
    jars of Salsa
    Salsa Recipe
    for 1 lb of Salsa
    (fills 2 jars)
    Consumed 6
    lb Diced
    Tomato Lot
    234
    Produced 6
    lb Salsa -
    Bulk Lot
    456
    Salsa -
    Bulk Lot
    456
    Consumed
    6 lb Salsa
    -Bulk Lot
    456
    Diced
    Tomato Lot
    234
    Package
    Salsa
    Today
    6 lb Diced
    Tomato
    Today
    6 lb Salsa
    - Bulk
    Today
    6 lb Salsa
    - Bulk
    Today
    Cook
    Salsa
    Today
    Package
    Salsa
    1 lb
    Diced
    Tomato
    1 lb
    Salsa -
    Bulk
    Salsa -
    Bulk
    1 lb
    Salsa -
    Bulk
    Diced
    Tomato
    Cook
    Salsa
    Here’s the Salsa flow
    

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25. Process
    Input
    Event
    Output
    Event
    Resource
    Input
    Event
    Resource
    Value Flows - forward and backward
    Process
    Product
    Collaboration
    Reputation
    Income
    Resource
    Input
    Event
    Output
    Event
    Resource
    Output
    Event
    Resource
    Input
    Event
    Process
    Resource
    Input
    Event
    

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26. The end
    

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