The 4th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications (INTAP'21)

The 4th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications (INTAP'21) was held on 11-13 October, 2021 at the University of Agder (UiA), Grimstad, Norway. INTAP'21 was co-organised by the University of Agder (UiA) and by Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) with the support of the Top Research Centre Mechatronics (TRCM), UiA, and the Artificial Intelligence Research Group (AIRG), Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), Pakistan.

Internationally recognised keynote speakers such as Dr. Domenico Prattichizzo (IEEE Fellow), Dr. Shugen MA (IEEE Fellow), Dr. Deepak Khazanchi, Dr. Stephan Sigg, and Dr. Valeriya Naumova presented their talks. The talk by Dr. Valeriya Naumova was supported and sponsored by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).

INTAP’21, received 243 submissions, from 27 countries and districts on six continents. After a blind review process, only 39 papers were accepted based on the classifications provided by the Program Committee, resulting in an acceptance rate of 16%. The selected papers come from researchers based in several countries including Australia, Belgium, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam.

INTAP is an important arena for UiA to establish new contacts with other universities. In this way, we can easily create a collaboration between student activities and research that works for both parties