Any Logic - History of AnyLogic

History of AnyLogic

In the beginning of 1990s there was a big interest in the mathematical approach to modeling and simulation of parallel processes. This approach may be applied to the analysis of correctness of parallel and distributed programs. The Distributed Computer Network (DCN) research group at Saint Petersburg Technical University developed such a software system for the analysis of program correctness; the new tool was named COVERS (Concurrent Verification and Simulation). This system allowed graphical modeling notation for system structure and behavior. The tool was applied for the research granted by Hewlett Packard (?).

In 1998 the success of this research inspired the DCN laboratory to organize a company with a mission to develop a new age simulation software. The emphasis in the development was placed on applied methods: simulation, performance analysis, behavior of stochastic systems, optimization and visualization. New software released in 2000 was based on the latest advantages of information technologies: an object-oriented approach, elements of the UML standard, the use of Java, a modern GUI, etc.

The tool was named AnyLogic, because it supported all three well-known modeling approaches:

• System dynamics,
• Discrete event simulation,
• Agent-based modeling.

+ Any combination of these approaches within a single model. The first version of AnyLogic was AnyLogic 4, because the numbering continues the numbering of COVERS 3.0.

A big step was taken in 2003, when AnyLogic 5 was released. It was focused on business simulation in the following domains:

• Market and Competition,
• Healthcare,
• Manufacturing,
• Supply Chain,
• Logistics,
• Retail,
• Business Processes,
• Social and Ecosystem Dynamics,
• Defense,
• Project and Asset Management,
• IT Infrastructure,
• Pedestrian Dynamics and Traffic simulation,
• Aerospace.
• Photovoltaics

The latest major version, AnyLogic 6, was released in 2007. The platform for AnyLogic 6 model development environment is Eclipse. AnyLogic 6 is a cross-platform simulation software as far as it works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.