This volume groups together the papers accepted for the Seventh International
Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS 2006), co-located with the
Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2006), which occurred in Hakodate, Japan on May 8, 2006.
MABS 2006 was the seventh workshop of a series that began at ICMAS 1998
(Paris, France), and continued successively with ICMAS 2000 (Boston, USA),
AAMAS 2002 (Bologna, Italia), AAMAS 2003 (Melbourne, Australia), AAMAS
2004 (New York, USA) and AAMAS 2005 (Utrecht, The Netherlands). The
revised version of the papers of these workshops appeared in Springer’s Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence, in volumes 1534, 1979, 2581, 2927, 3415
and 3891. All information on the MABS Workshop Series can be found at
http://www.pcs.usp.br/∼mabs.