OptaPlanner

For some optimization problems it may take minutes or even hours before an acceptable solution is found. The world, however, will not wait until the computation is finished. What if an employee ...

For years, OptaPlanner has been offering the documentation in two formats: single-page HTML and PDF. This now changes with the launch a new documentation website, built using Antora. What’s ...

During the pandemic year, we saw many stores and supermarkets adapt their business in several ways. Sometimes these changes occurred from day to day. For example, as a consequence of the sharp ...

It’s 11 PM on Friday evening. Everything was working fine — until now. Suddenly services are failing left and right, and your boss wants to know why. One tool in achieving ...

Python developers can now solve AI planning problems (such as the vehicle routing problem and employee rostering) with OptaPy. Let me show you how to use OptaPy and a bit of plain Python code to ...

Java 17 (released yesterday) comes with many new features and enhancements. However, most of those require code changes to benefit from. Except for performance. Simply switch your JDK ...

We have recently merged a lot of improvements to OptaPlanner's Constraint Streams API in order to make it faster and even easier to use. Let’s take a closer look at some of them. Constraint ...

In the following paragraphs we will show that by combining the Kogito business processes with OptaPlanner optimization, it is possible to automatically assign tasks to users. Furthermore, we can ...

Did you notice? Last week, we migrated the entire www.optaplanner.org website (1399 files) to build with Java and Maven, instead of Ruby and Rake. On the face of it, nothing changed. But in the ...

Do you want OptaPlanner to run faster? Do you want to increase your score calculation speed, reaching great solutions sooner? Let me show you how to optimize your Constraint Streams constraints ...