This book highlights recent research on intelligent systems and nature-inspired computing. The ISDA is a premier conference in the field of computational intelligence, and the latest installment brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners whose work involves intelligent systems and their applications in industry.

Open-Ended Automatic Programming Through Combinatorial Evolution.- Deep Face Mask Detection : Prevention and Mitigation of COVID-19.- Extracting Emotion and Sentiment Quotient of Viral Information over Twitter.- Maintaining Scalability in Blockchain.- Thoracic Disease Chest Radiographic Image Dataset: A Comprehensive Review.- Batch normalization and dropout regularization in training deep neural networks with label noise.- Intelligent Software Engineering: The Significance of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Enhancing Software Development Lifecycle Processes.- Honey Bee Queen Presence Detection from Audio Field Recordings using Summarized Spectrogram and Convolutional Neural Networks.- Formal Verification Techniques: A Comparative Analysis for Critical System Design.

This book highlights recent research on intelligent systems and nature-inspired computing. It presents 132 selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2021), which was held online. The ISDA is a premier conference in the field of computational intelligence, and the latest installment brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners whose work involves intelligent systems and their applications in industry. Including contributions by authors from 34 countries, the book offers a valuable reference guide for all researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering.

Includes recent research on intelligent systems design and applications Presents the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications ISDA 2021 Written by leading experts in the field