Drools Planner webinar on Wednesday June 15th

I'll be presenting a free online webinar on Wednesday June 15th 2011 about Drools Planner. So if you're interested in Planner, put it down in your agenda. The starting time is:

• 16:00 UTC
• 18:00 Paris, Brussels, Berlin
• 17:00 London
• 12:00 (noon) New York, Washington DC, Boston
• 09:00 San Francisco
• 00:00 (midnight) Singapore
• Show starting time for other cities

Here is the summary of the 1 hour presentation:

Drools Planner optimizes automated planning.
It solves use cases such as:

• bin packing: filling containers, trucks, ships, cloud computer nodes, ...
• vehicle/freight/people routing: planning trucks, trains, airplanes, travelling salesmen, repairmen, ...
• employee shift rostering: rostering nurses, repairmen, ...
• agenda scheduling: scheduling courses, exams, conference presentations, maintenance jobs, advertisements, ...
• job shop scheduling: planning assembly lines for building cars, devices, ...
• cutting stock: cutting paper, steel, carpet, ...
• sport scheduling: planning football leagues, baseball leagues, ...

In this presentation, I will:

• demonstrate some of the use cases and their Drools Planner examples.
• explain some of the characteristics of these problems, known as NP-complete or NP-hard problems, such as the very surprising search space size.
• talk about how Drools Planner handles these problems.
• show how Drools Planner optimizes a lot further than common implementations.

And of course, there will be time to ask questions.

Go to the official JBoss webinars webpage for more information.
Register for the event.

Drools Planner webinar on Wednesday June 15th