The second multidisciplinary workshop on advances in preferences handling had been held on August 28 - 29, 2006 in Riva del Garda, Italy in conjunction with ECAI 2006. It had been organized by Ulrich Junker and Werner Kießling. The workshop proceedings include the papers of the twenty-one presentations, which cover topics such as preference elicitation, preference representation, preference aggregation, voting theory, multi-criteria optimization, data-base queries, and applications of preferences in areas such as mechanism design, planning and reasoning about actions, and recommender systems. A detailed report about the workshop can be found in the first issue of the  MCDM Newsletter, 2007.