The 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining *** Beijing China August 17-20, 2014 *** *** Home Page: www.asonam2014.org *** The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) provides a premier interdisciplinary forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from all social networking analysis and mining related fields for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences. ASONAM 2014 seeks to address important challenging problems with a specific focus on the emerging trends and industry needs associated with social networking analysis and mining. The conference solicits experimental and theoretical findings along with their real-world applications. General areas of interest to ASONAM 2014 include the design, analysis and implementation of social networking theory, systems and applications from information science, mathematics, communications, business administration, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics, biology and medicine. More specialized topics within ASONAM include, but are not limited to: * Agent based social simulation and computational models * Anomaly detection in social network evolution * Application of social network analysis and mining * Community discovery and analysis in large scale online/offline social networks * Connection between biological similarities and social network formulation * Contextual social network analysis and mining * Crime network analysis * Crowd sourcing * Cyber anthropology * Dark Web * Data models for social networks and social media * Data protection inside communities * Economical impact of social network discovery * Evolution of communities/patterns on the Web and in large organizations * Impact of social networks on recommendations systems * Incorporating social information in query processing and query optimization * Information acquisition and establishment of social relations * Influence of cultural aspects on the formation of communities * Large-scale graph algorithms for social network analysis * Misbehavior detection in communities * Migration between communities * Multi-actor/multiple-relationship networks * Multi-agent based social network modeling and analysis * Open source intelligence * Pattern presentation for end-users and experts * Personalization for search and for social interaction * Political impact of social network discovery * Privacy, security and civil liberty issues * Recommendations for product purchase, information acquisition and establishment of social relations * Scalability of social networking/search algorithms * Social and cultural anthropology * Social geography * Social psychology of information diffusion * Spatial/knowledge networks * Statistical modeling of large networks * Trust networks and evolution of trust * Visual representation of dynamic social networks Key Dates ========== Full paper submission deadline: April 9, 2014 Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2014 Camera-ready papers due: June 24, 2014 Conference events: August 17-20, 2014 Submission and Review ===================== Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited. The papers will reviewed by a minimum of two subject experts. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages using the IEEE CPS two-column template. Papers should be submitted to the Conference Web site: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2014/asonam14/cbc_index.php. Papers will be accepted for the conference based on the reviewers comments on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. If the paper is accepted, the paper will appear in the proceedings of the conference if one author presents the paper at the conference and at least one author registers as a full conference participant. Publications ============ Accepted and presented papers will be included in the ASONAM 2014 Conference Proceedings and forwarded for inclusion in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL), IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing through INSPEC by the IEEE. ASONAM 2014 Organizing Committee ================================ Honorary Chair: Binxing Fang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Conference Chairs: Yan Jia, National University of Defence Technology, China Jon Rokne, University of Calgary, Canada Program Committee Chairs: Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA and Hefei University of Technology, China Martin Ester, Simon Fraser University, Canada Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Chair: Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Local Arrangements Chairs: Yuxiao Li, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China Tiejian Luo, University of Chinese Academy of Science, China Bin Zhou, National University of Defence Technology, China Industry-Track Chairs: Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Daniel Zeng, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Arizona Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China Workshops Chairs: Wolfgan Nejdl, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China Bettina Berendt, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium Tutorial Chairs: V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Meng Wang, Hefei University of Technology, China Carson Leung, Manitoba University, Canada Panels Chairs: Alvin Chin, Nokia Research, China Jing Xu, Peking University, China Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Tsukuba University, Japan Demos Chairs: Tansel Ozyer, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia Publicity Chairs: Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas, USA Panagiotis Karampelas, Hellenic American University, Greece Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Publication Chairs: Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Min-Yuh Day, Tamkang University, Taiwan Registration Chair QIngshun Meng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Finance Chair Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Lu Xu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Web Chair: Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China,