AnyLogic Professional

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AnyLogic Professional edition is the ultimate solution for developing 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 the features of AnyLogic Advanced with several important additions:

Export models as standalone Java applications

You can export your models as standalone Java applications and deploy them on other machines, including servers. This allows you to create custom applications for your clients or colleagues. Unlike Java applets (which you can export in AnyLogic Advanced), these Java applications are not subject to security restrictions and can communicate with databases, external files and other applications. This feature, for example, enables you to empower your decision making processes, Business Intelligence, and dashboards with simulation-based analyses.

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. Custom libraries can be opened in the palette view along with the standard ones. This allows you to share a customized simulation solution within a team of modelers, or deliver it to your clients.

Java level debugger

Sophisticated modelers sometimes program complex logic in Java. The ability to step through Java code, inspect the variable values, set breakpoints, etc. significantly speeds up model development and debugging. 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 integrate 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

Easy integration with databases, spreadsheets and text files is another Professional feature. 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 by 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.

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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

Professional includes an 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 always includes it. 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 accumulated during the simulation can now be saved directly from the experiment UI and loaded there again. In 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. These analyses often benefit from direct integration with GIS. In AnyLogic 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, fi ll regions with different colors, etc.). In agent based models you can specify a new space type - GIS space - and let the agents live there.

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Pedestrian library

The Pedestrian Library is a key Professional feature. Simulating a facility with intense pedestrian movement (such as airport, subway station, museum, or sport arena) with traditional discrete event (queuing) approaches are often imprecise. The new Pedestrian Library allows you to model the interactions of pedestrians with each other and the environment (walls, turnstiles, escalators, stairs, etc.) at a physical level, to visualize pedestrian movement and collect statistics. The Pedestrian Library objects allow you to model in a flowchart manner and they integrate well with the Enterprise Library so that you can use higher-level DE modeling in those parts of your process where physical interaction is less important.

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Rail yard library

The new Rail Yard Library allows you to efficiently model, simulate, and visualize rail yard operations of any complexity and scale. You can also naturally and easily combine the rail yard models with discrete event or agent based models of related transportation, loading and unloading, resource allocation, maintenance, business processes, etc. The Rail Yard Library produces detailed, yet very high performance simulations, which is important when you use the optimizer to identify the best yard management policies.

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.
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