CDVE 2008 successfully held

The CDVE2008 has been held with success. 3 days paper sessions and one Industrial Day have been successfully held. Participants from 5 continents, more than 25 countries have had a wonderful conference during the last 4 days. The presentations had very wide varieties of topics on cooperative technology applied to many industrial, sicentific, education, business, entertaiment areas. The industrial day had important presenations from the industry such as  NOKIA, Rolls Royce and GFaI.

The keynote speech of the confernece by Professor Pierre Leclercq from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Liège (ULg), Belgium has been the hightlight of the conference. Focused on the importance of the cooperation in design, he had a presentation with vivid 2D-3D animation attracted the attention of all the participants.  The speech introduced the experience of his 18 years experience in design cooperating with other European and international partners.  It convincingly showed that if we want to go further to raise the level of design, we should go cooperative!

The conference is a high quality, high focus on cooperative work in many disciplines of design, visualization, engineering and other applications. There are many high quality papers and presentations in the conference from important national research centers, universities of many countries  such as  France,  Sweden,  Finland, luxemburg, Canada, Turkey, China, Australia .... just to name a few.  During the presentation, there are overviews of how cooperative work is realized at inter-continental and national level. There are also deep insight of how make cooperative work in a particular task. Participants enjoyed  listening to  topics  of  cooperative work that they normally do not  hear  during  daily work.

The conference had very colorful social activities. The  first day reception in the  Palma city hall with the welcome of the deputy mayor of the Palma city and the second day night very Spanish stylish performance in Son Amar made the conference not only for technical work but for enjoying truely life in this Meditteranean Island...