We provide an open source ecosystem centered around optimization and operations research, in order to achieve the following:

1. Provide software and documentation to create and optimize problems based on a simple but powerful assignment model.
2. Empower people to model and reason about complex systems, built out of interconnected optimization problems.
3. Enable the user to understand the results given a solver and an optimization system.
4. Develop new optimization algorithms.
5. Provide compatibility between different optimization systems.

The Splitcells Network is the overarching project, that brings everything together and establishes general project guidelines. The following is a list of subprojects, that demonstrate how the general goals of the project are fulfilled:

1. The Crisis Network module enables extraordinary complex models and their optimization.
2. The Generic Allocator is the foundation for models and their optimization.
3. The School Organization project targets to make the software actually usable.
4. The  Gel UI  provides a code editor, in order to use the software's functionality without special tooling.
5. The  Discovery Trees  provide an overarching semantic inventory system. ( This has no dedicated project yet and is part of the Symbiosis project. This should probably be a subproject of the Network project. Also, see `src/main/java/net/splitcells/dem/object/Discoverable.java` and `net.splitcells.shell` for info regarding existing implementations.)

The following list makes the approaches for reaching the objectives more focused and concrete:

1.  Inherently Broken and Rotten by Design 
2. Ensure, that the software is reliable for its users.
3. The project's relationship to the public is unclear, but stays an unresolved issue.