Simulating Systems-of-Systems With Agent-Based Modeling: A Systematic Literature Review

In this article, we conduct a systematic review to investigate how agent-based modeling (ABM) techniques have been applied for simulating systems-of-systems (SoS) domains. We understand that modeling and simulating SoS is a hard task and must be conducted by techniques (e.g., ABM) that represent the behavior of agents and the operation of an SoS to overpass this complexity. We evaluate the most utilized models, approaches, and tools. We also investigate how accurate are the SoS simulations performed by this technique and which are the most investigated problems. As a result, we identify which tools and approaches have been utilized to investigate the behavior of SoS.