This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on
Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering CDVE 2018 held in Hangzhou China in
October 2018. The 34 full papers presented in this book together with 15 short papers were
carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics
in the field of cooperative visualization cooperative design cooperative engineering basic
theories methods and technologies that support CDVE and cooperative applications.