This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on
Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering CDVE 2015 held in Mallorca Spain in
September 2015. The 30 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully
reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. There is a group of papers dressing the big
data related to the cooperative work. It includes the information modeling intensive task
management how to use the cloud technology to foster the cooperation etc. To deal with the
social network issues is the topic of another group of papers in this volume. They range from
creating programming languages to automate cooperative processes social network information
visualization and the ranking cooperative research teams by analyzing the social network data.