This section is about what computer programs (or humans with pencil and paper and a lot of work) can do with Value Flows economic networks once they are constructed on the Web or in a database.
Network-based algorithms
Dependent Demand constructs schedules for operational economic networks from recipes
Many other scheduling algorithms can be used over the same recipes.
Gantt charts are a popular network schedule visualization.
Critical Path is another scheduling algorithm that analyzes a network of processes to figure out the bottlenecks, the processes that need special attention.
Value Rollups summarize the total value of all inputs to the resulting output from a recipe.
Value Equations determine how income should be distributed according to contributions to a deliverable item.
Track and Trace follow the path of a resource forwards (to where it went) and backwards (where it came from, and what other resources went into it).
Provenance is like Trace, focusing on the path of a resource and all of the other resources that went into it.
Cash Flow is mostly about money, but could also apply to other resources, looking at the inflows and outflows on a timeline, historical in the past, forecasted in the future.