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AnyLogic Professional edition is the ultimate solution for development of large and complex simulation models and sophisticated animations, embedding models into various IT environments, and creating and using custom libraries for specific application areas. The Professional edition includes all features of AnyLogic Advanced plus the following:
Export models as standalone Java applications
You can export your models as Java applications and deploy them on other machines, including servers. Unlike Java applets (which you can export in AnyLogic Advanced), Java applications are not subject to security restrictions and can communicate with databases, external files and other applications.
Custom library development and library import
You can develop a set of reusable active objects and Java classes for a particular application area, package them and save as a library. Such custom library can be opened in the palette view along with the standard ones. This way you can share a customized simulation solution within a team of modelers, or deliver it to your clients.
Java level debugger
As sometimes complex logic in simulation models is programmed in Java, the ability to step through Java code, inspect the variable values, set breakpoints, etc. may significantly speed up the model development. In AnyLogic Professional you can view how the code fields (“extension points”) in AnyLogic are mapped to the generated Java source, run models in debug mode, and control their execution from the Debug perspective of AnyLogic IDE.
Integration with version control software
When a large model is being developed by a team it is essential that the development tool integrates well with version control software. In AnyLogic Professional you can partition the model into components that can be developed in parallel (yet cross-reference each other), store them in different .alp files, add those files into version control software repository, commit and update them directly from AnyLogic IDE.
Easy integration with databases, spreadsheets and text files
In addition to the generic Database object available in AnyLogic Advanced (Connectivity palette), the Professional edition offers a set of easy-to-use objects for performing frequent operations, e.g.: reading object parameters from a spreadsheet, populating an agent based model reading from a database containing individual agent properties, inserting a row into a table, writing simulation output into particular fields, reading and writing information from/to text files, etc. No SQL or JDBC knowledge is required.
Import of CAD drawings in DXF format
CAD drawings can serve both as animation background and as a markup basis for “layout-aware” models (such as Network-Based models or pedestrian models). In AnyLogic Professional you can include vector drawings in DXF format just like any other shapes or images, choose visible layers, scale and control their properties at runtime.
Extended set of interactive UI elements
There are three additional controls in AnyLogic Professional: List Box, Progress Bar and File Chooser.
OptQuest optimizer is included as a basic feature
Unlike AnyLogic Advanced where OptQuest is as an option, the Professional edition includes it by default. You can set up optimization experiments and even export combined simulation+optimization solutions as applets or Java applications.
Rich experiment framework
In addition to Simulation, Parameter Variation and Optimization experiments available in the Advanced Edition, AnyLogic Professional offers Compare Runs, Sensitivity Analysis, Monte Carlo, Calibration and Custom experiment types. The experiment wizards will help you to configure the experiment UI with charts and control elements, which you can modify later on.
Saving, restoring and exporting the simulation output
The data in statistics objects, datasets, histograms and charts that were accumulated during the simulation can now be saved directly from the experiment UI and loaded there again. This way you can keep the results of complex time consuming simulations without exporting them to external applications or data repositories. The data is saved in common .csv format and can be opened in text editors and spreadsheets.
GIS (Geographical Information System) integration
The simulation models of logistics and supply chains, epidemiology, social and market dynamics are frequently based on geographical information and can benefit a lot from direct integration with GIS. In AnyLogic Professional you can include GIS maps on the animation canvas, establish correspondence between the model coordinates and GIS latitude and longitude, control maps via GIS API (e.g. scale, move, fill regions with different colors, etc.). In agent based models you can specify a new space type - GIS space - and let the agents live there.
Pedestrian library
In many cases when you are simulating a facility with intense pedestrian movement (such as airport, subway station, museum, or sport arena) traditional discrete event (queuing) approaches do not give the right degree of precision. The new Pedestrian Library included in AnyLogic Professional allows you to model interaction of pedestrians with each other and the environment (walls, turnstiles, escalators, stairs, etc.) at physical level, visualize pedestrian movement and collect statistics. The Pedestrian Library objects allow you to model in flowchart manner and integrate well with the Enterprise Library so that you can use the higher level DE modeling in those parts of your process where physical interaction is not so important.
Saving and restoring the model snapshot
In AnyLogic 6 Professional Edition you are able to save the full state of a model (the snapshot) during runtime to a file, restore it at a later time and continue running simulation from the same point.
This feature may be useful in several cases:
- Resilience: when a simulation takes very long time to complete, it may make sense to save its state periodically so that you do not have to start everything from scratch when e.g. the computer crashes.
- Skipping warm-up period: if you plan to run several scenarios with a simulation that differ only after the model warms up, you may run the model up to the end of its warm-up period only once, save the state, and then reload it for every scenario.
- Running distributed simulations: many parallel/distributed simulation frameworks require the ability to roll-back the model to some previous state (checkpoint). This may be needed to synchronize the clocks of concurrent simulations when one of them happens to “run too far”.
- Any other case when you need to refer to a particular state of the model without running the simulation from the initial state.
AnyLogic model snapshot implementation is based on Java serialization mechanism.
