Choice of a planning tool

[Bhakta Raghavan]

Hello,

I am looking at a right choice of a planning/scheduling framework to start on a new project. I looked at PDDL (https://github.com/pellierd/pddl4j) and Europa (https://github.com/nasa/europa).

I felt that Europa is far sophisticated than PDDL4J and has a better language binding. I generally tend to avoid to a completely new syntax that is hard to train larget set of people on and in that regard liked NDDL syntax which is Java-like.

Before I invest more time to use the framework I had a few questions:

1. The last commit to NDDL was about 7 months. Is there active development going on in the project?

2. While there are a few examples, I felt there is a lack of a well-explained-step-by-step simple tutorials that can help teaching all of the syntax. Is there a larger repository of examples other than what is present now?

3. In the event I run into questions, is this the right group to post? Are there people still working on/supporting the code-base who can jump in to help?

My goal is to build a planning tool to solve problems in the space of Virtualization (using physical machine resources to create/manager virtual resources (VM's etc..)).

[Conor McGann]

Hi Bhakta,

I was one of the early contributors to EUROPA. Not sure if it is still active. I am looking at EUROPA for a new project also. So hopefully we can get a positive response here.

Conor