  With the increase in Internet of Things devices and more decentralized
architectures we see a new type of application gain importance, a type where
local interactions between individual entities lead to a global emergent
behavior, Emergent-based IoT (EBI) Systems. In this position paper we explore
techniques to evaluate this emergent behavior in IoT applications. Because of
the required scale and diversity this is not an easy task. Therefore, we mainly
focus on a distributed simulation approach and provide an overview of possible
techniques that could optimize the overall simulation performance. Our focus is
both on modeling and simulation technology.
