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Use cases

Value proposals

  • Vehicle routing

  • Employee rostering

  • Maintenance scheduling

  • Task assignment optimization

  • School timetabling

  • Cloud optimization

  • Conference scheduling

Demo videos

Each of these videos demonstrates an example and/or a special feature:

  • Conference scheduling: Integration with Excel

  • Employee rostering: Web application in the cloud

  • Hospital bed planning: Overconstrained planning

  • Task assigning: Real-time and continuous planning

  • Meeting scheduling: Time grain design pattern

  • Investment portfolio optimization

  • Cheap power time scheduling

  • Exam timetabling: User defined score parametrization

  • Dinner party scheduling: Decision tables

  • Cloud optimization: Decision tables

  • Cloud optimization: Real-time planning

  • Course scheduling: Immovable planning entities

  • Project job scheduling: Built-in hard constraints

  • Tennis club scheduling: Fairness and load balancing constraints

  • Vehicle routing with time windows: Shadow variables and real-time planning

  • Vehicle routing scoring: Score function flexibility

  • Employee rostering: Continuous planning

  • Order picking

Latest release
  • 8.35.0.Final released
    Fri 3 March 2023
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Latest blog posts
  • OptaPlanner 9 is coming
    Tue 21 February 2023
    Lukáš Petrovický
  • Farewell - a new lead
    Tue 15 November 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Run OptaPlanner workloads on OpenShift, part II
    Wed 9 November 2022
    Radovan Synek
  • Bavet - A faster score engine for OptaPlanner
    Tue 6 September 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Run OptaPlanner workloads on OpenShift, part I.
    Thu 9 June 2022
    Radovan Synek
  • OptaPlanner deprecates score DRL
    Thu 26 May 2022
    Lukáš Petrovický
  • Real-time planning meets SolverManager
    Mon 7 March 2022
    Radovan Synek
  • Blog archive
Latest videos
  • The Vehicle Routing Problem
    Fri 23 September 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Introduction to OptaPlanner AI constraint solver
    Thu 25 August 2022
    Anna Dupliak
  • On schedule: Artificial Intelligence plans that meet expectations
    Sat 23 July 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Host your OptaPlanner app on OpenShift (Kubernetes)
    Mon 7 February 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • OptaPlanner - A fast, easy-to-use, open source AI constraint solver for software developers
    Mon 31 January 2022
  • Order picking planning with OptaPlanner
    Fri 31 December 2021
    Anna Dupliak
  • AI lesson scheduling on Quarkus with OptaPlanner
    Thu 18 November 2021
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Video archive

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