Guest Editorial Nature-Inspired Approaches for IoT and Big Data

Nature-inspired approaches have been widely used for different purposes over the last two decades and are still extensively researched, especially for complex real-world problems. Biological systems, or nature in general, serve as the source of the intelligence of nature-inspired approaches. The efficiency of nature-inspired approaches is due to their significant ability to imitate the best features of nature that evolved by natural selection over millions of years. These approaches have been successfully used for Internet of Things (IoT) and big data handling and relevant examples of these topics may be artificial neural networks (ANNs) and deep learning applications. On this basis, the main theme of this special issue (SI) addresses recent advances in the use of the nature-inspired approaches for IoT and big data problems.