The 1st International Conference on Data, Engineering and Applications 2017 (IDEA-2k17) is being organized during October 28-29, 2017 in Bhopal (The city of Lakes), India. IDEA-2k17 is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Big Data, Computational Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning and their associated learning systems and applications. The conference will bring together leading academician, scientists, expert from industry and researchers in the domain of interest from around the world. The conference will have pre-conference Tutorial presentations, Invited talks and Research paper and posters presentations. The invited talks and tutorials will be delivered by renowned experts.

Contributions from researchers describing their original, unpublished, research contribution which is not currently under review by another conference or journal and addressing state-of-the-art research are invited to share their work in all areas of Big Data, Computational Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning and their associated learning systems and applications but not limited to the conference tracks.
The full length (10 to 12 pages)and short papers (no less than 6 pages) of high quality in the LNCS/CCIS one-column page format will be considered for publication by Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) Series after the conference.