The development of new technologies has led the world into a tipping point. One of these technologies is the big data which made the revolution of computer sciences. Big data has come with new challenges. These challenges can be resumed in the aim of creating scalable and efficient services that...

Despite of its emergence and advantages in various domains, big data still suffers from major disadvantages. Timeless, scalability, and privacy are the main problems that hinder the advance of big data. Privacy preserving has become a wide search era within the scientific community. This paper...

"This book focuses on new advancements of exploration, creation and development of metaheuristic algorithms in information retrieval models over big data environment and services. It presents how metaheuristics could affect in good or bad the results of different retrieval models and the impact...