The fifth multidisciplinary workshop on advances in preferences handling had been held on August 16, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, in conjunction with ECAI 2010. The workshop had been organized by Ulrich Junker, Jérôme Lang, and Patrice Perny, The program consisted of fourteen papers about topics such as hybrid preference representations, preference aggregation and voting, preferences and social networks, preference-based data retrieval, optimization under preferences, and application of preferences in recommender systems, multi-agent systems, and access-control systems.

The fourth multidisciplinary workshop on advances in preferences handling had been held on July 13 - 14, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois, in conjunction with AAAI 2008. The workshop organizers had been Jan Chomicki, Vincent Conitzer, Ulrich Junker, and Patrice Perny. The workshop proceedings are available as AAAI Technical Report WS-08-09. Twenty-four papers covered methods for modeling, representation, aggregation, elicitation, learning, and management of preferences and for reasoning and computation with preferences. The papers studied the usage of preferences in computational tasks from decision making, database querying, web search, personalized human-computer interaction, personalized recommender systems, e-commerce, multi-agent systems, game theory, social choice, combinatorial optimization, and planning. The workshop program furthermore included an invited talk about preference elicitation, a panel discussion about preferences and game theory, and a poster session. A report about the workshop is included in the AAAI 2008 Workshop Reports published in AI Magazine,Vol. 30, No 1.

The third multidisciplinary workshop on advances in preferences handling had been organized by Jim Delgrande and Werner Kießling. It had been held on September 23, 2007 in Vienna, Austria in conjunction with VLDB 2007. The workshop program included an invited talk on “Quantum Computing, Database Search and Preferences” and fourteen presentations on topics such as preference queries, preference modeling, preference representation, and preferences in logic programming.

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.