This year, the APNOMS call for papers received 195 paper submissions from 19 different countries, including countries outside the Asia-Pacific region (Europe, Middle-East, North and South America). Each paper was carefully reviewed by at least three international experts. Based on review scores, the APNOMS 2008 Technical Program Committee discussed the selection of papers, and selected 43 high-quality papers (22.1% of submissions) as full papers and 34 papers as short papers. Accepted papers were arranged into ten technical sessions and two short paper sessions (poster presentation). These sessions include Routing and Topology Management, Fault Management, Community and Virtual Group Management,Autonomous and Distrubted Control, SensorNetworkManagement, Traffic Identification, QoS Management, Policy and Service Management, Wireless and Mobile Network Management, and Security Management.