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Is this in same category as OptaPlanner? How do these two compare?
by prav 8y ago
Is this in same category as OptaPlanner? How do these two compare?
- ge0ffrey 8y agoOptaPlanner (Apache license, 100% Java) is a constraint solver. MiniZinc (MPL, C++) is a modeling language for other constraint solvers. Both are used for similar use cases - Vehicle Routing Problem, employee rostering, task assignment, .... OptaPlanner uses metaheuristics and construction heuristics, java objects as input & output (not just arrays of integers and floating point numbers), constraints that can call any java code, supports multithreaded incremental solving, etc. It currently has no Minizinc adaptor or JSR-331 (a similar initiative) adaptor. If there's more demand for that, it would be considered.