Business resource planning for java developers - ERP Spain.com - España y América Latina

The world is full of planning problems: scheduling employees to shifts, delivery routes to vehicles, course exams to classroom time slots, and manufacturing tasks to machines, just to name a few. Solving these problems optimally is often key to a businesses’ success. The technology and knowledge needed to do so has been out of reach to all but the largest enterprises. Until now.

Register to learn about an innovative new technology soon to be released with version 6.1 of Red Hat® JBoss® BRMS, the business resource planner. Java™ developers can build powerful “solvers” without deep knowledge of optimization techniques.

In this session we'll cover the basics of solver construction with planner including:

    Planning concepts.
    Example problems.
    Optimization algorithms.
    Specifying constraints and scoring functions.

Through a series of live demos and problem scenarios you will learn how to tackle your own optimization problems with ease.

Speaker: Geoffrey De Smet, senior software engineer,Red Hat

Geoffrey is the founder and lead of OptaPlanner, an open source Java planning engine. Before joining Red Hat in 2010, he was employed as a Java consultant, an artificial intelligence researcher, and an enterprise application project lead. Geoffrey has contributed to many open source projects in the Java community. Since he started OptaPlanner in 2006, he’s been passionately addicted to planning optimization.