Welcome to the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2015) held in Bertinoro, Italy, during October 26–30, 2015. Originally started as a regional (Asia-Pacific) workshop in 1998, PRIMA has become one of the leading and influential scientific conferences for research on multi-agent systems. Each year, PRIMA brings together active researchers, developers and practitioners from both academia and industry to showcase, share and promote research in several domains, ranging from foundations of agent theory and engineering aspects of agent systems, to emerging interdisciplinary areas of agent-based research. The 2015 edition was a very special one, because this was the very first time that PRIMA was brought to Europe since it emerged as a full-fledged international conference in 2009. Previous successful editions were held in Nagoya, Japan (2009), Kolkata, India (2010), Wollongong, Australia (2011), Kuching, Malaysia (2012), Dunedin, New Zealand (2013), and Gold Coast, Australia (2014). We received 94 submissions from 30 countries. Each submission was carefully reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee (PC) composed of 184 prominent world-level researchers and 27 additional reviewers. The review period was followed by PC discussions moderated by Senior Program Committee (SPC) members. The PRIMA SPC has been part of the PRIMA reviewing scheme since 2010, and this year it included 22 members. At the end of the reviewing process, in addition to the technical reviews, each paper received a summary meta-review by an SPC member. The PC and SPC included researchers from 139 institutions located in 33 countries world−wide. Of the 94 submissions, PRIMA 2015 accepted 29 papers, with an acceptance rate of 31 %. In addition, 24 contributions were accepted as promising, but not fully mature early innovation papers. All papers were presented at the conference. Each paper was also invited to display a poster so as to enable further discussion. In addition to paper presentations and poster sessions, the conference itself also included three workshops, two tutorials, three keynote talks, and a demo session. We nominated three papers for the PRIMA 2015 Best Paper Award:

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欢迎参加 2015 年 10 月 26 日至 30 日在意大利贝尔蒂诺罗举行的第 18 届多智能体系统原理与实践国际会议 (PRIMA 2015) 的会议记录。最初于 1998 年作为区域（亚太）研讨会开始， PRIMA 已成为研究多智能体系统的领先和有影响力的科学会议之一。每年，PRIMA 都会汇集来自学术界和工业界的活跃研究人员、开发人员和从业者，以展示、分享和促进多个领域的研究，从代理理论的基础和代理系统的工程方面，到基于代理的研究的新兴跨学科领域. 2015 年是一个非常特别的版本，因为这是 PRIMA 自 2009 年作为一个成熟的国际会议出现以来第一次被带到欧洲。之前的成功版本分别在日本名古屋（2009 年）、印度加尔各答（2010 年）、澳大利亚卧龙岗（2011 年）、马来西亚古晋（2012 年）、新西兰但尼丁（2013 年）和澳大利亚黄金海岸（2014 年）举行. 我们收到了来自 30 个国家/地区的 94 份提交。每份提交的内容都经过程序委员会 (PC) 的至少三名成员的仔细审查，该委员会由 184 名世界级研究人员和 27 名其他审查员组成。审查期之后是由高级程序委员会 (SPC) 成员主持的 PC 讨论。自 2010 年以来，PRIMA SPC 一直是 PRIMA 审查计划的一部分，今年它包括 22 名成员。在评审过程结束时，除了技术评审之外，每篇论文都会收到 SPC 成员的总结性元评审。PC 和 SPC 包括来自全球 33 个国家的 139 个机构的研究人员。在提交的 94 篇论文中，PRIMA 2015 接受了 29 篇论文，接受率为 31%。此外，有 24 篇贡献被接受为有前途但尚未完全成熟的早期创新论文。所有论文都在会议上发表。还邀请每篇论文展示一张海报，以便进一步讨论。除了论文报告和海报会议，会议本身还包括三个研讨会、两个教程、三个主题演讲和一个演示会议。我们为 PRIMA 2015 最佳论文奖提名了三篇论文：所有论文都在会议上发表。还邀请每篇论文展示一张海报，以便进一步讨论。除了论文报告和海报会议，会议本身还包括三个研讨会、两个教程、三个主题演讲和一个演示会议。我们为 PRIMA 2015 最佳论文奖提名了三篇论文：所有论文都在会议上发表。还邀请每篇论文展示一张海报，以便进一步讨论。除了论文报告和海报会议，会议本身还包括三个研讨会、两个教程、三个主题演讲和一个演示会议。我们为 PRIMA 2015 最佳论文奖提名了三篇论文：