This is the eighth year that the Agent-Oriented Information Systems
(AOIS) workshops have been held. Papers submitted to AOIS show an
increase in quality and maturity as agent technology is being
increasingly seen as a viable alternative for software and systems
development. In AOIS, we focus on the application of agent technology in
information systems development and explore the potential for
facilitating the increased usage of agent technology in the creation of
information systems in the widest sense. This year's workshops were held
in conjunction with two major, international computing research
conferences: the first, in May 2006, was affiliated with the AAMAS
conference in Hakadote, Japan and chaired by Garcia, Ghose and Kolp. The
second was held in conjunction with the international CAiSE conference
held in Luxembourg (June 2006) and chaired by Bresciani,
Henderson-Sellers and Mouratidis. (Details of all preceding workshops
are to be found at http: // www. aois. org. ) The best papers from both
these meetings were identified and authors invited to revise and extend
their papers in light of the reviewers' comments and feedback at the
workshop. Following submission to this compendium volume, another round
of reviews was undertaken resulting in what you can read here. These
re-reviews were undertaken by three members of the Programme Committee -
we wish to thank both the authors for undertaking the necessary
revisions and the reviewers for this extra call on their precious time.