Simulating System of Systems Using MACE

The advancement of complex System of Systems (SoS) presents many challenges in system design and development for which we are still lacking good solutions. We have developed a proactive middleware implemented in mediators as a solution for managing complexity of SoS engineering. So far, the tool support for developing this technology has been lacking. The paper presents the MACE simulation framework, consisting of a simulator application and a binding mechanism for agent and mediator code for simulating complex SoS that make use of a proactive middleware. We demonstrate the ability of MACE to handle multi-agent communication simulation within the new paradigm with a compelling test case.