Welcome from the ASONAM 2014 program chairs

As program committee chairs of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, held in Beijing, China, from August 17 to August 20, 2014, and on behalf of the members of the organizing committee and members of the technical program committee we would like to welcome you and wish you will enjoy every moment of your stay in Beijing, whether attending the sessions or sightseeing during your free time. The ASONAM conference series bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to share the latest advances in the emerging and attractive field of Social Networks Analysis and Mining. The ASONAM conference series provides a single, high-profile forum for research in the theory and practice of social networks analysis and mining. It was initiated in 2009 in Athens at the Hellenic American University and continued by ASONAM 2010, in Odense, Denmark, ASONAM 2011 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ASONAM 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey and ASONAM 2013 in Niagara Falls, Canada.