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Approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are emitted on a daily basis, and this has brought the world into the era of ''big data.'' Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are known for their effectiveness and efficiency for small datasets, and this era of big data has posed a challenge to the big data analytics using ANN. Recently, much research effort has been devoted to the application of the ANN in big data analytics and is still ongoing, although it is in it is early stages. The purpose of this paper is to summarize recent progress, challenges, and opportunities for future research. This paper presents a concise view of the state of the art, challenges, and future research opportunities regarding the applications of the ANN in big data analytics and reveals that progress has been made in this area. Our review points out the limitations of the previous approaches, the challenges in the ANN approaches in terms of their applications in big data analytics, and several ANN architecture that have not yet been explored in big data analytics and opportunities for future research. We believe that this paper can serve as a yardstick for future progress on the applications of the ANN in big data analytics as well as a starting point for new researchers with an interest in the exploration of the ANN in big data analytics. INDEX TERMS Big data analytics, artificial neural networks, evolutionary neural network, convolutional neural network, dataset. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Shirui Pan. many organizations on an ongoing basis. These datasets are being collected from various sources, including but not limited to the World Wide Web (WWW), social networks and sensor networks [3]. The discovery of knowledge from unstructured data accumulated from the WWW remains a difficult task because the content is suitable for human consumption rather than for machines [4]. Experimental evidence has shown that if big datasets are exploited and managed properly, it can give rise to critical intelligence that can motivate informed decisions and

This is the supplemental material to help the readers better understand the article entitled "A Hybrid Whale Optimization Algorithm with Differential Evaluation Optimization for Multi-Objective Virtual Machine Scheduling in Cloud Computing" published in the journal of Engineering Optimization. This material includes discussion, figures and table of the statistical results in Case-II.

Email has continued to be an integral part of our lives and as a means for successful communication on the internet. The problem of spam mails occupying a huge amount of space and bandwidth, and the weaknesses of spam filtering techniques which includes misclassification of genuine emails as spam (false positives) are a growing challenge to the internet world. This research work proposed the use of a metaheuristic optimization algorithm, the whale optimization algorithm (WOA), for the selection of salient features in the email corpus and rotation forest algorithm for classifying emails as spam and non-spam. The entire datasets were used, and the evaluation of the rotation forest algorithm was done before and after feature selection with WOA. The results obtained showed that the rotation forest algorithm after feature selection with WOA was able to classify the emails into spam and non-spam with a performance accuracy of 99.9% and a low FP rate of 0.0019. This shows that the proposed method had produced a remarkable improvement as compared with some previous methods.

Deep learning is presently attracting extra ordinary attention from both the industry and the academia. The application of deep learning in computer vision has recently gain popularity. The optimization of deep learning models through nature inspired algorithms is a subject of debate in computer science. The application areas of the hybrid of natured inspired algorithms and deep learning architecture includes: machine vision and learning, image processing, data science, autonomous vehicles, medical image analysis, biometrics, etc. In this paper, we present recent progress on the application of nature inspired algorithms in deep learning. The survey pointed out recent development issues, strengths, weaknesses and prospects for future research. A new taxonomy is created based on natured inspired algorithms for deep learning. The trend of the publications in this domain is depicted; it shows the research area is growing but slowly. The deep learning architectures not exploit by the nature inspired algorithms for optimization are unveiled. We believed that the survey can facilitate synergy between the nature inspired algorithms and deep learning research communities. As such, massive attention can be expected in a near future.

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Virtual machine scheduling in the cloud is considered one of the major issue to solve optimal resource allocation problem on the heterogeneous datacenters. With respect to that, the key concern is to map the virtual machines (VMs) with physical machines (PMs) in a way that maximum resource utilization can be achieved with minimum cost. Due to the fact that scheduling is an NP-hard problem, a metaheuristic approach is proven to achieve a better optimal solution to solve this problem. In a rapid changing heterogeneous environment, where millions of resources can be allocated and deallocate in a fraction of the time, modern metaheuristic algorithms perform well due to its immense power to solve the multidimensional problem with fast convergence speed. This paper presents a conceptual framework for solving multi-objective VM scheduling problem using novel metaheuristic Whale optimization algorithm (WOA). Further, we present the problem formulation for the framework to achieve multi-objective functions.

The use of modern technologies for control and monitoring and accessing devices in domestic or industrial buildings with convenience, comfortable and easy access from any location is the primary aim of the internet of things (IoT) technology for smart home automation. Complete Smart home automation, with overall control from any place at any time is still not fully available. Nevertheless, this work proposes a mobile application system for smart homes, with the purpose of overall monitoring and control of home appliances and devices. The proposed method is based on Zigbee, Arduino and Bluetooth for wireless communication among devices in the home. At the same time, a mobile application is used for the control and monitoring of the devices or appliances. In this study, Zigbee and Bluetooth are combined in order to establish efficient communication either within or outside the home premises. A user scenario of the proposed work was simulated using Proteus Simulation software to validate the practicability of the new system.