An Overview on Big Data Mining Using Evolutionary Techniques

Big Data processing suffers from several limitations due to its magnitude making it time consuming to implement any kind of analysis such as data mining. Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are metaheuristic optimization algorithms inspired by the natural behavior of the population evolution such as Genetic Algorithm, Artificial Bee Colony, Artificial Ant Colony and other swarm intelligence algorithms. EAs have recently been used to overcome Big Data limitations, especially memory consumption and the long execution time. This paper provides an overview of the recent research papers that utilize evolutionary algorithms to deal with the optimization problems related to Big Data mining such as clustering, classification and features' selection.