Timefold’s Role in Data Science, Big Data, and Academic Research

[PatrickDiallo23]

Hi Team,

I wanted to check if your clients or developers using your library have expressed any needs or requests for enhancements to the Benchmarking feature. I ask because I believe there’s strong potential for Timefold to evolve further in areas such as Big Data and academic research, particularly for testing and comparing different solutions to complex problems when they are writing academic papers.
What do you think? If there is anything that I can contribute on this matter (or other), please let me know.

Thanks!

[TomCools]

Hi Patrick! Great suggestion. We fully agree on the potential.

Do you have ideas yourself? We got a few things you could work on but since you aren't to temporally far removed from academia, I would love to hear where you think we could contribute. :)

We always have interest when it comes to tryin new heurisitics / algorithms, improving our benchmarking and experiments with LLMs, but would love to hear from you first! If you have something you'd want to pursue that aligns with something Timefold can do, then we'd love to enable you.

Kind regards,
Tom