Welcome message from the chairpersons

The organizing committee welcomes you to the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (IEEE CIVEMSA 2013), held in Milan, Italy, on July 15–17, 2013. This meeting, co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, is the first of a new series that extends its roots back to the 1996 IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Instrumentation and Measurement, and inherits and merges the decennial success of IEEE CIMSA and IEEE VECIMS. This new conference series will continue the interdisciplinary experience of the previous technical meetings by filling this gap in knowledge and practice. In particular, it focuses on all aspects of computational intelligence, human-computer interaction technologies, and virtual environments for measurement systems and the related applications, from the points of view of both theory and practice.