OptaPlanner in Practice Training Course
This course uses a practical approach to teaching OptaPlanner. It provides participants with the tools needed to perform the basic functions of this tool.
This course is available as onsite live training in Poland or online live training.Course Outline
Planner introduction
- What is OptaPlanner?
- What is a planning problem?
- Use Cases and examples
Bin Packaging Problem Example
- Problem statement
- Problem size
- Domain model diagram
- Main method
- Solver configuration
- Domain model implementation
- Score configuration
Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP)
- Problem statement
- Problem size
- Domain model
- Main method
- Chaining
- Solver configuration
- Domain model implementation
- Score configuration
Planner configuration
- Overview
- Solver configuration
- Model your planning problem
- Use the Solver
Score calculation
- Score terminology
- Choose a Score definition
- Calculate the Score
- Score calculation performance tricks
- Reusing the Score calculation outside the Solver
Optimization algorithms
- Search space size in the real world
- Does Planner find the optimal solution?
- Architecture overview
- Optimization algorithms overview
- Which optimization algorithms should I use?
- SolverPhase
- Scope overview
- Termination
- SolverEventListener
- Custom SolverPhase
Move and neighborhood selection
- Move and neighborhood introduction
- Generic Move Selectors
- Combining multiple MoveSelectors
- EntitySelector
- ValueSelector
- General Selector features
- Custom moves
Construction heuristics
- First Fit
- Best Fit
- Advanced Greedy Fit
- the Cheapest insertion
- Regret insertion
Local search
- Local Search concepts
- Hill Climbing (Simple Local Search)
- Tabu Search
- Simulated Annealing
- Late Acceptance
- Step counting hill climbing
- Late Simulated Annealing (experimental)
- Using a custom Termination, MoveSelector, EntitySelector, ValueSelector or Acceptor
Evolutionary algorithms
- Evolutionary Strategies
- Genetic Algorithms
Hyperheuristics
Exact methods
- Brute Force
- Depth-first Search
Benchmarking and tweaking
- Finding the best Solver configuration
- Doing a benchmark
- Benchmark report
- Summary statistics
- Statistics per dataset (graph and CSV)
- Advanced benchmarking
Repeated planning
- Introduction to repeated planning
- Backup planning
- Continuous planning (windowed planning)
- Real-time planning (event based planning)
Drools
- Short introduction to Drools
- Writing Score Function in Drools
Integration
- Overview
- Persistent storage
- SOA and ESB
- Other environment
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The training definitely backfilled some of the gaps in my knowledge left by reading the OptaPlanner userguide. It gave me a good broad understanding of how to approach using OptaPlanner in our projects going forward.
Terry Strachan - Exel Computer Systems plc
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Examples from real life and a practical approach to the topic.
Damian Pieronczyk - Tech-Com sp. z o.o.
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Additional information regarding tool issues and imperfections.
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