This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th
International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation MABs 2016 held in Singapore in May
2016. The workshop was held in Conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS 2016. The 10 revised full papers included in this volume
were carefully selected from 15 submissions. The topic of the papers is about modeling and
analyzing multi-agent systems and applying agent-based simulation techniques to real-world
problems focusing on the confluence of socio-technical- natural sciences and multi-agents
systems with a strong application empirical vein. Special emphasis is given on exploratory
agent-based simulation as a principled way of undertaking scientific research in the social
sciences and on using social theories as an inspiration to new frameworks and developments in
multi-agent systems.
