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Given a query result of a big database, why-provenance can be used to calculate the necessary part of this database, consisting of so-called witnesses. If this database consists of personal data, privacy protection has to prevent the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Tanja Auge , Nic Scharlau , Andreas Heuer

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

Data provenance is a valuable tool for detecting and preventing cyber attack, providing insight into the nature of suspicious events. For example, an administrator can use provenance to identify the perpetrator of a data leak, track an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Adam Bates , Kevin Butler , Alin Dobra , Brad Reaves , Patrick Cable , Thomas Moyer , Nabil Schear

Modern enterprise networks comprise diverse and heterogeneous systems that support a wide range of services, making it challenging for administrators to track and analyze sophisticated attacks such as advanced persistent threats (APTs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Seunghyeon Lee , Hyunmin Seo , Hwanjo Heo , Anduo Wang , Seungwon Shin , Jinwoo Kim

Provenance is a record that describes how entities, activities, and agents have influenced a piece of data; it is commonly represented as graphs with relevant labels on both their nodes and edges. With the growing adoption of provenance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-16 David Kohan Marzagão , Trung Dong Huynh , Ayah Helal , Sean Baccas , Luc Moreau

Ensuring the trustworthiness and long-term verifiability of scientific data is a foundational challenge in the era of data-intensive, collaborative research. Provenance metadata plays a key role in this context, capturing the origin,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Nicola Giuseppe Marchioro , Yannis Velegrakis , Valentine Anantharaj , Ian Foster , Sandro Luigi Fiore

Identifying the root cause and impact of a system intrusion remains a foundational challenge in computer security. Digital provenance provides a detailed history of the flow of information within a computing system, connecting suspicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Thomas Pasquier , Xueyuan Han , Thomas Moyer , Adam Bates , Olivier Hermant , David Eyers , Jean Bacon , Margo Seltzer

Even though computational reproducibility is widely accepted as necessary for research validation and reuse, it is often not considered during the research process. This is because reproducibility tools are typically stand-alone and require…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Ana Trisovic , Chris R. Jones , Ben Couturier , Marco Clemencic

Analytic provenance can be visually encoded to help users track their ongoing analysis trajectories, recall past interactions, and inform new analytic directions. Despite its significance, provenance is often hardwired into analytics…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Arpit Narechania , Shunan Guo , Eunyee Koh , Alex Endert , Jane Hoffswell

With the advent of mobile computing, location-based services have recently gained popularity. Many applications use the location provenance of users, i.e., the chronological history of the users' location for purposes ranging from access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Ragib Hasan , Randal Burns

In temporal interaction networks, vertices correspond to entities, which exchange data quantities (e.g., money, bytes, messages) over time. Tracking the origin of data that have reached a given vertex at any time can help data analysts to…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki Nikos Mamoulis

Provenance, which traces data from its creation to manipulation, is crucial for ensuring data integrity, reliability, and trustworthiness. It is valuable for single-user applications, collaboration within organizations, and across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Asma Jodeiri Akbarfam , Hoda Maleki

Provenance, or information about the sources, derivation, custody or history of data, has been studied recently in a number of contexts, including databases, scientific workflows and the Semantic Web. Many provenance mechanisms have been…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-09 James Cheney

The growing prevalence of unauthorized model usage and misattribution has increased the need for reliable model provenance analysis. However, existing methods largely rely on heuristic fingerprint-matching rules that lack provable error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiaoqi Qiu , Hao Zeng , Zhiyu Hou , Hongxin Wei

Data provenance, or data lineage, describes the life cycle of data. In scientific workflows on HPC systems, scientists often seek diverse provenance (e.g., origins of data products, usage patterns of datasets). Unfortunately, existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Runzhou Han , Mai Zheng , Suren Byna , Houjun Tang , Bin Dong , Dong Dai , Yong Chen , Dongkyun Kim , Joseph Hassoun , David Thorsley , Matthew Wolf

As per Adusumilli (2015),'70% of corporate business systems today are legacy applications. Recent statistics prove that over 60% of IT budget is spent on maintaining these Legacy systems, showing the rigidity and the fragile nature of these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Sandra Smyth

Data provenance has numerous applications in the context of data preparation pipelines. It can be used for debugging faulty pipelines, interpreting results, verifying fairness, and identifying data quality issues, which may affect the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Khalid Belhajjame , Haroun Mezrioui , Yuyan Zhao

System level provenance is of widespread interest for applications such as security enforcement and information protection. However, testing the correctness or completeness of provenance capture tools is challenging and currently done…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Sheung Chi Chan , James Cheney , Pramod Bhatotia , Thomas Pasquier , Ashish Gehani , Hassaan Irshad , Lucian Carata , Margo Seltzer

Large language models are increasingly customized through fine-tuning and other adaptations, creating challenges in enforcing licensing terms and managing downstream impacts. Tracking model origins is crucial both for protecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Ivica Nikolic , Teodora Baluta , Prateek Saxena

Software engineers integrate third-party components into their applications. The resulting software supply chain is vulnerable. To reduce the attack surface, we can verify the origin of components (provenance) before adding them.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Taylor R. Schorlemmer , Ethan H. Burmane , Kelechi G. Kalu , Santiago Torres-Arias , James C. Davis