so, parallel genetic algorithm based scheduling app with (ranked?) constraints?
In what way is it more automatic than existing similar apps?
presumably you still need to give it a list of constraints (say a few thousand constraints), possibly in a spreadsheet, some soft, some hard and it spits out a few of the top solutions or presumably an error if the hard constraints cannot be met?
What can it do that, say, optaplanner can't do?
parallel genetic algorithm
I wouldn't say it's "genetic algorithm", I prefer the term "evolution algorithm".
In what way is it more automatic than existing similar apps?
We did some testings. For example, we took some existing schedules and optimized them with our tool. The difference was substantial.
We also did some packings of circles inside a square and some spheres inside a cube, denser than it has been previously achieved.
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