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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

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  • 8.3.0.Final released
    Fri 5 March 2021
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Upcoming events
  • KIE Live
    Worldwide - Tue 9 March 2021
    • Testing your constraints with OptaPlanner by Lukáš Petrovický, Karina Varela, Alex Porcelli
  • Javaland
    Worldwide - Tue 16 March 2021
    • AI on Quarkus: I love it when an OptaPlan comes together by Geoffrey De Smet
  • Red Hat Webinar
    Worldwide - Wed 24 March 2021
    • AI planning: Top 3 use cases and benefits by Ronald Meuwsen, Geoffrey De Smet
  • SouJava MOTU
    Worldwide - Thu 15 April 2021
    • Planejamento de Recursos com OptaPlanner by Karina Varela, Otávio Santana
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Latest blog posts
  • Optimizing COVID-19 vaccination appointment scheduling
    Thu 4 March 2021
     Paul Brown
  • How much faster is Java 15?
    Tue 26 January 2021
     Michal Tomčo
  • Solve the facility location problem
    Fri 9 October 2020
     Jiří Locker
  • OptaPlanner Week 2020 recordings
    Mon 7 September 2020
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • Let’s OptaPlan your jBPM tasks (part 1) - Integrating the two worlds
    Fri 3 July 2020
     Walter Medvedeo
  • AI versus Covid-19: How Java helps nurses and doctors in this fight
    Fri 8 May 2020
     Christopher Chianelli
  • Workflow processes with AI scheduling
    Tue 5 May 2020
     Christopher Chianelli
Blog archive
Latest videos
  • YT Maintenance scheduling
    Wed 24 February 2021
     Julian Cui
  • YT Vaccination appointment scheduling
    Wed 3 February 2021
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • YT Shadow variables
    Tue 19 January 2021
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • YT Domain modeling and design patterns
    Tue 17 November 2020
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • YT Quarkus insights: AI constraint solving
    Tue 20 October 2020
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • YT AI in kotlin
    Wed 23 September 2020
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • YT Planning agility: continuous planning, real-time planning and more
    Thu 3 September 2020
     Geoffrey De Smet
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