This first multidisciplinary workshop on advances in preference handling had been held on July 31 - August 1, 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland in conjunction with IJCAI-05. The workshop organizers had been Ronen Brafman and Ulrich Junker. The workshop program included thirty-four presentations on topics such as preference elicitation, logical and graphical preference representations, preference aggregation, and applications of preferences to AI planning and constraint programming. The workshop was accompanied by a tutorial on preference models and applications given on July 30.