VS-Games 2017 will be organized with full support of the host institution, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Athens, Greece, September 6-8 2017. The conference will take place on the NTUA campus. The ninth International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (2017) aims to meet the significant challenges of the cross-disciplinary community that work around these serious application areas by bringing the community together to share case studies of practice, to present virtual world infrastructure developments, as well as new frameworks, methodologies and theories, and to begin the process of developing shared cross-disciplinary outputs.