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Is it possible for Prolog to beat OptaPlanner in terms of convenience and usability in a production context? As I understand it, local search and simulated anne

Is it possible for Prolog to beat OptaPlanner in terms of convenience and usability in a production context? As I understand it, local search and simulated annealing enable constraints to be expressed as arbitrary functions that return a Boolean or integer -- which can be much easier to express and connect to domain models than first-class logical predicates (at the price of a guaranteed optimum solution).

freemint 5y ago
Not for planning tasks. Prolog essentially expands a search tree depth first. OptaPlanner can and probably does do better things. Yes you could implement OptaPlanner in Prolog but then you are no longer using the Prolog language facilities.