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OptaPlanner is a good base for metaheuristics research. Read about some of the advantages in this article. Especially OptaPlanner Benchmarker and our big set of already implemented use cases, make it easy to test your new algorithm objectively against the existing algorithms.

If you’re doing academic or professional research on top of OptaPlanner, let us know.

To reference OptaPlanner or the user manual, please use this BibTeX reference:

@manual{optaplanner,
  author        = {De Smet, Geoffrey and open source contributors},
  title         = {OptaPlanner User Guide},
  year          = {2006},
  organization  = {Red Hat, Inc. or third-party contributors},
  url           = {https://www.optaplanner.org},
  note          = {OptaPlanner is an open source constraint solver in Java}
}

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