[ge0ffrey]

We support Simulated Annealing too, as well as Tabu Search and many others. By default Timefold Solver uses Late Acceptance, which behaves like Simulated Annealing but isn't parameter tuning fickle like SA.

Do note that the base algorithm (such as SA, TS or LA) is less than 5% of the work to get great results. We do a lot of additional things on top of that (incremental score calculation, smart neighborhood selection, multi threaded solving and many more).

[aitchnyu]

Hey Geoffrey, I missed that you were behind this! You did help me choose Drools Planner with simulated annealing in 2012. Congrats on coming a long way since then!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8712955/which-drools-pro...