Look at MoveIteratorFactory, that allows you to select those moves JIT
(so without creating all of them like in MoveListFactory).
Also see JUST_IN_TIME vs caching explanation in docs.
Let's continue further questions/discussions on the new mailing list
hth
On 27-06-14 14:05, DwProd . wrote:
Thanks a lot, yeah nearBySelection is probably what I would need, too
bad it's not out yet :(
As for the custom MoveListFactory, I found out what I'm trying to do
has an off the charts complexity. It basically has to find all subsets
of planning variables of a given size (combinations with repetition)
which is the number of entities I want to move at once... Worst case
has a complexity of something like O(4^n/sqrt(pi n))... It gets
unmanagable pretty soon unfortunately.
I'm not sure what I'll be doing but it seems like I'll have to do
without those constraints at first... Thanks again for your help however !
Best regards,
Woody
2014-06-25 13:18 GMT+02:00 Geoffrey De Smet <ge0ffrey.spam(a)gmail.com
<mailto:ge0ffrey.spam@gmail.com>>:
On 25-06-14 12:58, DwProd . wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your answer !
>
> 1) I don't think pillar based moves are what I'm looking for,
> except if I can select a pillar based on a Problem Fact (its
> service in my case) and then spread the different entities of the
> pillar on the available hosts (basically setting possibly
> different planning variables for the entities of the pillar).
>
> 2) cartesianProductMoveSelector seem more like it, but the number
> of moves to combine is somewhat static is it not ? I can't for
> instance specify in a Planning Entity (using a property) that its
> move should be combined with n other moves of processes of the
> same type ?
That would be nearBySelection... (note: the name might change
before I implement).
You need to be able to tell optaplanner that processes of the same
type are "near" (~related) to each other and should be moved together.
As stated before, I am working on this for 6.2.
>
> 3) I feel like my usecase is complicated enough to have to resort
> to that if there is no built in way to handle it... Does this
> work by implementing a MoveListFactory, or a CompositeMove ? I
> don't think I quite get the difference to be honest...
If you write a custom MoveListFactory (or MoveIteratorFactory),
you could still opt to go with the build-in moves (such as
ChangeMove) or combinations of those with CompositeMove. However,
because those build-in moves require reflection stuff
(VariableDescriptor etc), it's probably easier to just to write a
domain-specific Move.
See the examples that have custom moves.
>
> Thanks again for your time,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Woody
>
>
> 2014-06-25 9:37 GMT+02:00 Geoffrey De Smet
> <ge0ffrey.spam(a)gmail.com <mailto:ge0ffrey.spam@gmail.com>>:
>
> 1) There's 2 course grained moves out of the box in
> 6.1.0.CR1: pillarChangeMove and pillarSwapMove.
> And in 6.1.0.CR1 they also include subpillars (which is
> important).
>
http://docs.jboss.org/drools/release/latest/optaplanner-docs/html_single/...
> Start with trying those.
>
> 2) Then look into cartesianProduct selection and mimic
> selection (see docs).
> The <cartesianProductMoveSelector> allows you to combine to
> existing moves into a new one.
> The mimic selection allows you to make sure that those 2
> moves change the same entity (if needed), but a different
> variable of course.
> I am working on nearBySelection for 6.2 to allow it to select
> 2 entities that are somehow "nearBy" to each other (for
> example in the same service etc).
>
> 3) If the above don't help enough, there's always custom
> moves (see docs): total freedom, but the devil is in the
> details :)
>
>
> On 24-06-14 01:58, DwProd . wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I'm pretty new to OptaPlanner, and I must say I'm really
>> impressed with the maturity of it all. Great software with a
>> great documentation !
>>
>> I've been working on a variation of the Cloud Balancing
>> example, with a few differences, which make it look like the
>> Machine Reassignment problem as well :
>>
>> - Some processes are already placed and are immovable (using
>> a Selection Filter checking a boolean property of the
>> planning entity)
>> - The Computer (the planning variable) is nullable
>> (basically this is Multiple Muti-Dimensional Knapsack
>> problem) which means I added a soft constraint penalty for
>> processes with a null host.
>> - Processes can only be of a few classes (which I called
>> services, a Problem Fact). Processes of a given service type
>> have a certain amount of required cpu and ram.
>>
>> Taking these elements into account, I do get very good
>> results with OptaPlanner. However, the following constraints
>> always put me into a score trap :
>>
>> - For some services, processes work in groups. For instance,
>> if groups are of size 3, having 7 processes is not any
>> better than having 6 processes. If there were already 2
>> processes (immovable and placed), I should only add 4
>> processes and not 5, even if there are enough resources. For
>> this constraint, I have tried using a rule (medium
>> constraint) accumulating processes of that service and using
>> the modulo operator with the group size.
>> - Some services are dependant on one another. For instance,
>> I know that if I have n1 groups of processes of the service
>> 1, I require Math.ceil(2.5*n1) groups of processes of the
>> service 2. I have implemented this similarly with a medium
>> constraint...
>>
>> With any (or both) of these constraints, little to no
>> processes of the concerned services are added and I fail to
>> reach a good solution. I have tried benchmarking with
>> several local search methods and various parameters, but all
>> give the same results...
>>
>> I feel like the next logical step would be to used the often
>> mentioned in the documentation "Coarse Grained Moves" but I
>> fail to locate any simple example. The Nurse Rostering
>> example seems to use that technique to some extent but it
>> seems like an overly complicated example, is it not.
>>
>> Thank you very much for reading this far, if you have any
>> question, guideline, or just a trick, I'd be absolutely
>> delighted to hear from you !
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Woody
>>
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