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jerome-jh
Do people solve business problems with OR-tools? I suppose yes, but what can you say about the real applications?
AxelWickman
In somewhat discrete domains with large combinatorial search spaces, I would argue they do. I built this for a conference planner SaaS, which felt very real. Probably have other use cases in routing, dispatching, staff scheduling, conference planning, shift assignment, warehouse picking, bin packing, fleet utilization, job-shop scheduling, matching supply and demand under constraints, etc.
algo_trader
this is nice

can the browser connect to a server to offload heavier calculations?

aaronvg
this is really neat. Was using or-tools to solve my friend's scheduling problems with coworkers.