This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on
Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems PAAMS 2017 held in Porto Portugal in
June 2017. The 11 revised full papers 11 short papers and 17 Demo papers were carefully
reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers report on the application and validation
of agent-based models methods and technologies in a number of key application areas
including day life and real world energy and networks human and trust markets and bids
models and tools negotiation and conversation scalability and resources.
