ASONAM 2013 message from steering chair

This is the first time the ASONAM conference has been organized in North America. I am so delighted to watch the conference moving up so fast with consistent and hopefully sustainable success. Achieving acceptance rate of 13% this year is a new record which brings a challenge for the new organizers. I am sure they are aware of the mission and will be able to maintain the same quality for the coming years. We need to show the success as permanent for ASONAM to continue its mission as the leading venue in the area of social networks analysis and mining. The number of quality submissions is rapidly increasing every year demonstrating the visibility of the conference and making it harder to select the papers to accommodate in the program. The quality of workshops co-located with ASONAM has been considerably improved this year. In addition, I am happy to witness the success of the two symposiums which have been integrated into the organization to have more specialized coverage of two key areas related to network based modeling and analysis. The symposium on the Foundations of Open Source Intelligence and Security Informatics (FOSINT-SI) is serving mostly researchers and practitioners interested in terror and criminal data analysis. On the other hand, the symposium on Network Enabled Health Informatics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (HI-BI-BI) covers the network applications in the health domain from the wet-lab to the clinic.