Geoffrey De Smet

Geoffrey De Smet (Red Hat) is the lead and founder of OptaPlanner. Before joining Red Hat in 2010, he was formerly employed as a Java consultant, an A.I. researcher and an enterprise application project lead. He has contributed to many open source projects (such as drools, jbpm, pressgang, spring-richclient, several maven plugins, weld, arquillian, ...). Since he started OptaPlanner in 2006, he’s been passionately addicted to planning optimization.

Enterprise Java
Geoffrey De SmetMarch 10th, 2015
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Drools 6.2.0.Final Released
We are happy to announce the latest and greatest Drools 6.2.0.Final release. This release in particular had a greater focus…
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Software Development
Geoffrey De SmetFebruary 2nd, 2015
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OptaPlanner – Scaling Vehicle Routing with Nearby Selection
OptaPlanner 6.2 has made big step forward for the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) and similar use…
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Enterprise Java
Geoffrey De SmetNovember 24th, 2014
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Red Hat JBoss BRMS and BPMS Rich Client Framework demonstrating Polyglot Integration with GWT/Errai/UberFire and AngularJS
Last week I published a blog highlighting a presentation I gave showing our rich client platform that has resulted from…
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Enterprise Java
Geoffrey De SmetNovember 24th, 2014
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Prototyping an enterprise webapp at Devoxx Hackergarten
For the 10th year in a row, I attended DevoxxBe. It’s my favorite Java conference, but the talk schedule isn’t…
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Software Development
Geoffrey De SmetNovember 10th, 2014
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OptaPlanner – Open benchmarks for the win
Recently, there was some commotion on Twitter because a competitor heavily restricts publicising benchmarks of their Solver as part of…
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Enterprise Java
Geoffrey De SmetSeptember 4th, 2014
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OptaPlanner – Vehicle routing with real road distances
In the real world, vehicles in a Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) have to follow the roads: they can’t travel in…
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Enterprise Java
Geoffrey De SmetSeptember 2nd, 2014
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Pluggable Knowledge with Custom Assemblers, Weavers and Runtimes
As part of the Bayesian work I’ve refactored much of Kie to have clean extension points. I wanted to make…
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Software Development
Geoffrey De SmetMay 13th, 2014
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Cheating on the N Queens benchmark
Many Solver distributions include an N Queens example, in which n queens need to be placed on a n*n sized…
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Core Java
Geoffrey De SmetApril 10th, 2014
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How much faster is Java 8?
Java SE 8 was released yesterday. Traditionally, every new major JRE version comes with a free performance boost. Do we…
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