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Provenance in scientific workflows is essential for understand- ing and reproducing processes, while in business processes, it can ensure compliance and correctness and facilitates process mining. However, the provenance of process…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Ludwig Stage , Mirela Riveni , Raimundas Matulevičius , Dimka Karastoyanova

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…

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This work describes the design, implementation and performance analysis of a distributed two-tiered storage software. The first tier functions as a distributed software cache implemented using solid-state devices~(NVMes) and the second tier…

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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

Data provenance (the process of determining the origin and derivation of data outputs) has applications across multiple domains including explaining database query results and auditing scientific workflows. Despite decades of research,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Ruiyuan Zhang , Nikos Mamoulis , Xiaofang Zhou

This document describes the linking of data discovery metadata to access to the data itself, further detailed metadata, related resources, and to services that perform operations on the data. The web service capability supports a drill-down…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Patrick Dowler , François Bonnarel , Laurent Michel , Markus Demleitner

Provenance refers to the documentation of an object's lifecycle. This documentation (often represented as a graph) should include all the information necessary to reproduce a certain piece of data or the process that led to it. In a dynamic…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-11-22 Seyed-Mehdi-Reza Beheshti , Hamid Reza Motahari-Nezhad , Boualem Benatallah

Data analytics often involves hypothetical reasoning: repeatedly modifying the data and observing the induced effect on the computation result of a data-centric application. Previous work has shown that fine-grained data provenance can help…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Daniel Deutch , Yuval Moskovitch , Noam Rinetzky

Determining and verifying product provenance remains a critical challenge in global supply chains, particularly as geopolitical conflicts and shifting borders create new incentives for misrepresentation of commodities, such as hiding the…

For data-centric systems, provenance tracking is particularly important when the system is open and decentralised, such as the Web of Linked Data. In this paper, a concise but expressive calculus which models data updates is presented. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-24 Gabriel Ciobanu , Ross Horne

I/O efficiency is crucial to productivity in scientific computing, but the increasing complexity of the system and the applications makes it difficult for practitioners to understand and optimize I/O behavior at scale. Data-driven machine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Mihailo Isakov , Mikaela Currier , Eliakin del Rosario , Sandeep Madireddy , Prasanna Balaprakash , Philip Carns , Robert B. Ross , Glenn K. Lockwood , Michel A. Kinsy

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) pose critical challenges to modern cybersecurity due to their multi-stage and stealthy nature. While provenance-based detection approaches show promise in capturing causal attack semantics, current threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Wenhao Yan , Ning An , Linxu Li , Bingsheng Bi , Bo Jiang , Zhigang Lu , Baoxu Liu , Junrong Liu , Cong Dong

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

Long-term data-driven studies have become indispensable in many areas of science. Often, the data formats, structures and semantics of data change over time, the data sets evolve. Therefore, studies over several decades in particular have…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tanja Auge , Andreas Heuer

Native database (1) provides a near-data machine learning framework to facilitate generating real-time business insight, and predefined change thresholds will trigger online training and deployment of new models, and (2) offers a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Guoxin Kang , Lei Wang , Simin Chen , Jianfeng Zhan

This paper describes a work in progress implementing a solution for harvesting and transporting information logs from network devices in a e-science environment. The system is composed for servers, agents, active devices and a transporting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Mayol Arnao Reinaldo , Nuñez Luis A. , Lobo Antonio

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 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

This paper presents the CRISTAL-iSE project as a framework for the management of provenance information in industry. The project itself is a research collaboration between academia and industry. A key factor in the project is the use of a…

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