Messages between agents in Anylogic GIS environment

Question

In the Anylogic GIS environment, I want to send a message to the agents that are close to the agent that sends the message. Is it possible to send a message to more than one agent within a certain distance in a GIS environment?

Thanks,

I used send("msg", this.getNearestAgent(agents)); but it only sends the message to the one nearest agent and not the nearest ones.

Answer 1

You will need to create your own function for this. I created the following one with the agent type called MyAgent so replace MyAgent with whatever Agent Type you are using:

for( MyAgent m : myAgents ) {

    if( agent.distanceTo(m) < 1000000 && agent != m ) { 
        send("msg", m);
    }
}

Note that distanceTo returns a distance in meters. I also the second condition in the if statement to make sure the agent doesn't send a message to itself. Finally, make sure to add an argument to your function as shown below.