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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 19-01-13 19:18, Michiel Vermandel
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        <div><span>Hi,</span></div>
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            deterministic way for detecting a score trap in Drools
            Planner?</span></div>
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          transparent; font-style: normal;">I have read about the
          hill-climbing issue and the ways to reduce the possibility of
          this but I think it is still possible to encounter, right?</div>
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          transparent; font-style: normal;">So it would be great to have
          some red-light flashing when it happens after all :-)<br>
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    Yes, but they are hard to detect automatically.<br>
    One red-light flashing is by using
&lt;problemStatisticType&gt;BEST_SOLUTION_CHANGED&lt;/problemStatisticType&gt;<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://docs.jboss.org/drools/release/5.5.0.Final/drools-planner-docs/html_single/index.html#d0e7101">http://docs.jboss.org/drools/release/5.5.0.Final/drools-planner-docs/html_single/index.html#d0e7101</a><br>
    I 'd like to automate detection of it:<br>
    &nbsp; <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/PLANNER-120">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/PLANNER-120</a><br>
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    If you see this, you probably have a score trap:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://issues.jboss.org/secure/attachment/12359971/badBecauseScoreTrap.png">https://issues.jboss.org/secure/attachment/12359971/badBecauseScoreTrap.png</a><br>
    Then run the solver again, but terminate it in the middle of that
    first flat line and write the solution.<br>
    Then examine that solution for score traps.<br>
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    Just pushed a new image and some docs explaining score traps better,
    as several users might have encountered it:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/droolsjbpm/drools-planner/commit/e9034f4ac60e7a4bd65f7223c5a3dd47e0d7b903">https://github.com/droolsjbpm/drools-planner/commit/e9034f4ac60e7a4bd65f7223c5a3dd47e0d7b903</a><br>
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