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Provenance for database queries or scientific workflows is often motivated as providing explanation, increasing understanding of the underlying data sources and processes used to compute the query, and reproducibility, the capability to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-08-13 James Cheney , Amal Ahmed , Umut A. Acar

Provenance plays a critical role in maintaining traceability of a system's actions for root cause analysis of security threats and impacts. Provenance collection is often incorporated into the reference monitor of systems to ensure that an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jinsong Mao , Benjamin E. Ujcich , Shiqing Ma

Provenance, or information about the origin or derivation of data, is important for assessing the trustworthiness of data and identifying and correcting mistakes. Most prior implementations of data provenance have involved heavyweight…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Stefan Fehrenbach , James Cheney

This paper presents Recorder, a parallel I/O tracing tool designed to capture comprehensive I/O information on HPC applications. Recorder traces I/O calls across various I/O layers, storing all function parameters for each captured call.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Chen Wang , Izzet Yildirim , Hariharan Devarajan , Kathryn Mohror , Marc Snir

As the demand for large scale AI models continues to grow, the optimization of their training to balance computational efficiency, execution time, accuracy and energy consumption represents a critical multidimensional challenge. Achieving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Gabriele Padovani , Valentine Anantharaj , Sandro Fiore

Workflow provenance typically assumes that each module is a "black-box", so that each output depends on all inputs (coarse-grained dependencies). Furthermore, it does not model the internal state of a module, which can change between…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Yael Amsterdamer , Susan B. Davidson , Daniel Deutch , Tova Milo , Julia Stoyanovich , Val Tannen

Provenance has been thought of a mechanism to verify a workflow and to provide workflow reproducibility. This provenance of scientific workflows has been effectively carried out in Grid based scientific workflow systems. However, recent…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Khawar Hasham , Kamran Munir , Richard McClatchey

Tracers provide users with useful information about program executions. In this article, we propose a ``tracer driver''. From a single tracer, it provides a powerful front-end enabling multiple dynamic analysis tools to be easily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Ludovic Langevine , Mireille Ducasse

Host-based threats such as Program Attack, Malware Implantation, and Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), are commonly adopted by modern attackers. Recent studies propose leveraging the rich contextual information in data provenance to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Su Wang , Zhiliang Wang , Tao Zhou , Xia Yin , Dongqi Han , Han Zhang , Hongbin Sun , Xingang Shi , Jiahai Yang

Increasingly modern data science platforms today have non-intrusive and extensible provenance ingestion mechanisms to collect rich provenance and context information, handle modifications to the same file using distinguishable versions, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Hui Miao , Amol Deshpande

Complex heterogeneous dynamic networks like knowledge graphs are powerful constructs that can be used in modeling data provenance from computer systems. From a security perspective, these attributed graphs enable causality analysis and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Maya Kapoor , Joshua Melton , Michael Ridenhour , Mahalavanya Sriram , Thomas Moyer , Siddharth Krishnan

Data provenance describes how data came to be in its present form. It includes data sources and the transformations that have been applied to them. Data provenance has many uses, from forensics and security to aiding the reproducibility of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Thomas Pasquier , Xueyuan Han , Mark Goldstein , Thomas Moyer , David Eyers , Margo Seltzer , Jean Bacon

Recording the provenance of scientific computation results is key to the support of traceability, reproducibility and quality assessment of data products. Several data models have been explored to address this need, providing…

To benefit from the abundance of data and the insights it brings data processing pipelines are being used in many areas of research and development in both industry and academia. One approach to automating data processing pipelines is the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Ludwig Stage , Dimka Karastoyanova

As the scope and impact of cyber threats have expanded, analysts utilize audit logs to hunt threats and investigate attacks. The provenance graphs constructed from kernel logs are increasingly considered as an ideal data source due to their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jie Ying , Tiantian Zhu , Mingqi Lv , Tieming Chen

Provenance is information recording the source, derivation, or history of some information. Provenance tracking has been studied in a variety of settings; however, although many design points have been explored, the mathematical or semantic…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-12-22 James Cheney , Amal Ahmed , Umut Acar

We introduce provenance networks, a novel class of neural models designed to provide end-to-end, training-data-driven explainability. Unlike conventional post-hoc methods, provenance networks learn to link each prediction directly to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ali Kayyam , Anusha Madan Gopal , M. Anthony Lewis

In an organization specifically as virtual as cloud there is need for access control systems to constrain users direct or backhanded action that could lead to breach of security. In cloud, apart from owner access to confidential data the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Muralikrishnan Ramane , Balaji Vasudevan , Sathappan Allaphan

An inherent security limitation with the classic multithreaded programming model is that all the threads share the same address space and, therefore, are implicitly assumed to be mutually trusted. This assumption, however, does not take…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2013-05-22 Jun Wang , Xi Xiong , Peng Liu

A novel parallel patterns library, Groovy Parallel Patterns, is presented which, from the outset, has been designed to exploit more general process parallelism than the usual data and task parallel architectures. The library executes on a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jon Kerridge , Neil Urquhart