Vfrdtyky

Dear AnyLogic community,

I have created a model to evaluate different methods of autonomous control.

I have agents with different due dates and want the agent with the soonest due date to be served first. At the moment the incoming agents are not sorted in any way but served according to the FIFO rule.

Is there a possibility to modify the sequence of the agents in a service block without adding a seperate queue?

Many thanks for your time & help!

Benjamin's solution is good, but if you insist in not wanting to use a queue before the service block, and that you need to use a service block no matter what then you can set up priorities like this:

Your agent's priority will be higher when the due date is closer.

Since you have already set up the priorities inside your agent, then there is nothing else to do but this (unless you want preemption).

But the priority can just be this if you want to set it up (priority being a parameter defined in your agent):

You can map due dates to priorities, as Felipe suggested.

Alternatively, a more direct approach would be to use the queue priorisation mode "Agent comparison". Lets say your agents have a parameter "myDueDate" of type Date.

Then you can simply arrange agents with the most urgent due date as below, essentially saying "prefer the incoming agent1 to an existing agent2 if it is more urgent". The incoming agent will jump ahead of each of the queue members until it finds one that is even more urgent.