Chapter 6. Business Resource Planner

Business Resource Planner is a lightweight, embeddable planning engine that optimizes planning problems. It helps Java™ developers solve planning problems efficiently. It combines optimization heuristics and metaheuristics with very efficient score calculations.

The planner helps to solve various use cases, for example:

  • Employee/Patient Rosters: the planner helps to create timetables for nurses and keeps track of patient bed management.
  • Educational Timetables: the planner helps to schedule lessons, courses, exams, and conference presentations.
  • Shop Schedules: the planner tracks car assembly lines, machine queue planning, and workforce task planning.
  • Cutting Stock: the planner minimizes waste by reducing the consumption of resources such as paper and steel.

6.1. Installing Business Resource Planner

  1. Open the DOWNLOADS section of the Red Hat Customer Portal.
  2. Click Red Hat JBoss BRMS and log in.
  3. From the Version drop-down menu, select version 6.4.
  4. Select Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4.0 Business Resource Planner and click Download.

6.2. Running Business Resource Planner Examples

  1. On the command line, change into the examples/ directory.
  2. In a Unix environment, execute:

    ./runExamples.sh

    In a Windows environment, execute:

    runExamples.bat
  3. Pick an example from the Examples GUI application that opens and run it in your favorite IDE.