12th International Conferenceon CSCW in Design, Xi\'an, China

Design of complex artifacts and systems requires the cooperation of multidisciplinary design teams&#046; The 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2008) provides a forum for researchers and practitioners involved in different but related domains to confront research results and discuss key problems&#046;<BR><B>Keywords:</B> Techniques, methods, and tools for CSCW in design <BR>Knowledge intensive cooperative design <BR>User modeling for cooperative design <BR>Intelligent agents and multi&#8211;agent systems for cooperative design <BR>Workflows for cooperative design <BR>VR technologies for cooperative design <BR>Grids, Web Services and Semantic Web for CSCW in Design <BR>Mobile collaboration and applications <BR>Collaborative networks and applications <BR>Collaboration in manufacturing, services, and businesses <BR>Distance learning/training related to design <BR>Practice and experience with collaborative systems <BR>Other areas related to CSCW in Design <BR>