This bookconstitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the
16thInternational Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation MABS 2015 held inIstanbul Turkey
in May 2015. The workshop was held in conjunction with the14th International Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems AAMAS 2015. The 12revised full papers included in
this volume ware carefully selected from 22submissions. The papers focus on theinfluence of
social sciences and multi-agent systems with a strongapplication empirical vein and its
emphasis is stressed on exploratory agentbased simulation as a principled way of undertaking
scientific research in thesocial sciences and using social theories as an inspiration to new
frameworks and developments in multi-agent systems.
