Simulation, Consulting and Freelancing Articles

For some reason, I usually get bombarded with people requesting me to help them with their AnyLogic projects for free. Sometimes I suspect people think I’m an AnyLogic customer service representative. But, I’m not. I have generally very little free time, and the free time I have, I spend time […]

Doing simulation models is an art that requires a set of skills that is quite vast. What I’m showing on this article is a composition of the skills I have needed for projects I have done or skill that were requested for projects I didn’t end up doing or even[…]

Here’s a little trick I use to generate dynamic batches, which are batches that are of dynamic size and where products that need to be batched come in a disorganized fashion. Let’s say for instance that we have to batch products in boxes, and each product has a label with[…]

Since people ask me how I built my website, on this article I will give the tools I used to build it and the services I use for it. Domain To register noorjax.com I used Marcaria. I use this service to register all of the .com domains I have owned in[…]

It’s generally a good idea to reduce the number of parameters of your optimization problem, and sometimes it feels that your problem needs hundreds of them. But does it? How can you reduce those dimensions without affecting the final solution? And in AnyLogic in particular, using the demo version of[…]

Let’s go through this simple example that will allow an agent to move through a network, avoiding the use of deprecated constructors in AnyLogic 8.4. Create the network. This network will be necessary for an agent to follow the proper paths from point A to point B. All these functions[…]

There is something beginner AnyLogic users take for granted when they build a model. For instance, when using the Process Modeling Library, they use the Agent Type. On the other hand, when they build a model using the Pedestrian Library, they use a pedestrian type. Why? Because it’s there, naturally[…]

Wether you use AnyLogic, Arena, Simio, FlexSim or any other simulations Software in the market, when you develop a  model using the discrete-events paradigm, you will get access to a number of blocks that you can connect with each other to generate a flow with agents or entities flowing from[…]

You are developing your discrete events model, and you see your agents moving from one block to the next. Simple right? But have you stopped for a moment to ask yourself why they are even moving? What is that thing that makes them move? If you ask a beginner, the[…]