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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
JaCoP
Posts with mentions or reviews of JaCoP.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-12.
- Constraint Programming
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Sputnim A Sat Solver In Nim
I used MiniZinc to model a scheduling problem for a customer which used constraints to block off already scheduled time, holiday time, non-work hours, etc. and it also had soft constraints for ensuring that blocks of time would be prioritized first to ensure that preferred representatives would get to a work with a given customer first based on previous relationship and skills. Once we translated the modelled constraints from MiniZinc to JaCoP in Java, the solution was able to generate hundreds of solutions per second. And note that it was able to do this minute level resolution such that no blocks of time were wasted because of scheduler limitations.
2021-2022
Posts with mentions or reviews of 2021-2022.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-12.
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Constraint Programming
I totally agree. MiniZinc is a great tool to prototype solvers for combinatorial optimization problems. It's mature (but still growing) and has support for many different solvers, not only from the Constraint Programming/SAT family. You can easily switch to MIP solvers (like Gurobi) or even try some local search approaches.
It has very good documentation, reasonable IDE and AFAIK three great courses on Coursera for beginners. I have been teaching it myself[1] and all my students were amazed how quickly one can develop a working prototype for real-life industrial problems.
[1] https://gitlab.com/agh-courses/2021-2022/constraint-programm...
What are some alternatives?
When comparing JaCoP and 2021-2022 you can also consider the following projects:
Choco - An open-source Java library for Constraint Programming
OptaPlanner - Java Constraint Solver to solve vehicle routing, employee rostering, task assignment, maintenance scheduling, conference scheduling and other planning problems.