Integrating Advanced Collaborative Capabilities into Web-Based Word Processors -- A Peer-to-Peer Based Communication Environment for Synchronous Collaborative Product Design -- VICA: A Voronoi Interface for Visualizing Collaborative Annotations -- Innovative Visualization Tools to Monitor Scientific Cooperative Activities -- Workflow Methodology for Collaborative Design and Manufacturing -- Cooperative Reinforcing Bar Arrangement and Checking by Using Augmented Reality -- A Virtual Interactive Community Platform Supporting Education for Long-Term Sick Children -- Pro-active Environment for Assisted Model Composition -- A Speech-Controlled User Interface for a CAFM-Based Disaster Management System -- Private Data Management in Collaborative Environments -- A Scalable Method for Efficient Grid Resource Discovery -- Modeling and Analysis for Grid Service Cooperative Scheduling Based on Petri Nets -- Capturing Designers’ Knowledge Demands in Collaborative Team -- “Integrare”, a Collaborative Environment for Behavior-Oriented Design -- Differential Conversion: DWG – SVG Case Study -- A Study of Version Control for Collaborative CAD -- Semantic Web Services Discovery System with QoS for Enhanced Web Services Quality -- Intelligent Library and Tutoring System for Brita in the PuBs Project -- Quality Information Management System Under Collaborative Environment -- A Service-Oriented, Scalable Approach to Grid-Enabling of Manufacturing Resources -- A Collaboration Environment for R&D Project -- A Bumpless Switching Scheme for Dynamic Reconfiguration -- Real Estate’s Market Value and a Pollution and Health Effects Analysis Decision Support System -- Cooperative Decision-Making with Scheduler Agents -- Classification of the Investment Risk in Construction -- A Composite-Service Authorization Prediction Platform for Grid Environment -- A Document Recommendation System Based on Clustering P2P Networks -- SECGrid: Science and Engineering Computing Based Collaborative Problem Solving Environment -- Bandwidth-Aware Scheduling in Media Streaming Under Heterogeneous Bandwidth -- “Virtual Real Communities” and Cooperative Visualization -- 3D Visualization Method of Large-Scale Vector Data for Operation -- Rule-Based Collaborative Volume Visualization -- A Collaborative and Collective Concept Mapping Tool -- WSHLA: Web Services-Based HLA Collaborative Simulation Framework -- Cooperative Validation in Distributed Control Systems Design -- A Two-Level Programming Method for Collaborative Scheduling in Construction Supply Chain Management -- A Particular Approach to the Analysis of Manufacturing Process Rhythmicity -- A Study Upon the Architectures of Multi-Agent Systems for Petroleum Supply Chain -- Multidisciplinary Knowledge Modeling and Cooperative Design for Automobile Development -- Integrating Domain Dependent Tools in Artificial Bone Scaffolds Design -- An Integrated Multiplatform Travel Service System -- Cooperative Mobile Healthcare Information Support System Using Web Services over Wireless and Wired Network -- Resource Sharing and Remote Utilization in Communication Servers -- A Proxy Based Information Integration System for Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks -- Using Ontological Slicing to Construct Semantic Context Facades for Mediating Collaboration -- A Design of Personal Window Knowledge Capsule Based on Data Warehousing Concept -- Dynamic Resource Dispatch Strategy for WebGIS Cluster Services -- Leveraging Single-User Microsoft Visio for Multi-user Real-Time Collaboration -- Lattices and the Collaborative Design in Shipbuilding -- Web-Based Engineering Portal for Collaborative Product Development -- Application of Paraconsistent Logic in an Intelligent Tutoring System -- Novel Collaborative Automated Testing Framework Using DDF* -- IT Services Design to Support Coordination Practices in the Luxembourguish AEC Sector -- Expansion of Telecommunication Social Networks -- Knowledge-Based Cooperative Learning Platform for Three-Dimensional CAD System -- Modeling the Metropolitan Region Cooperative Development Based on Cooperative Game Theory -- Efficient Blind Signatures from Linear Feedback Shift Register -- A Relative Entropy Method for Improving Agent-Based Negotiation Efficiency of Collaborative Working in Construction Projects.

This year the CDVE conference celebratedits fourth annual eventin an exciting city—Shanghai, China. The cooperative design, visualization and engineering communitysensedtheeconomicpulseofanewgianteconomywherecooperation is vital for its success. This year we received a large number of papers from all over the world. In addition to many submissions from Europe, we received more papers from Asia and China this time. Many authors from key Chinese research centers and national projects presented their papers, which gave us insight into the progress of research and development in this giant economy. From a technical point of view, as a major trend in cooperative design, vi- alization, engineering and other applications, advanced Web-based cooperation technology stands out by itself. Many papers re?ect the research in this aspect with very convincing results. Web-based cooperative working applications have been emerging strongly since the wide availability and accessibility of the WWW. It is a form of sharing andcollaboratingbyitsnature.Itissuitable forthe cooperationofamuchwider range of users. In the ?eld of cooperative engineering, new ?ndings and new results were presented. Among all, work ?ow technology was recognized as a key element for successful cooperative engineering. According to these new ?ndings, only Web-based cooperation tools and shared databases are not enough for coop- ative engineering. Work?ow-based methodology should be introduced to gu- antee the integration and coordination of the whole life cycle process of products.