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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

Provenance plays a crucial role in scientific workflow execution, for instance by providing data for failure analysis, real-time monitoring, or statistics on resource utilization for right-sizing allocations. The workflows themselves,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Vasilis Bountris , Lauritz Thamsen , Ulf Leser

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…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-04-20 James Cheney

Modern scientific discovery increasingly relies on workflows that process data across the Edge, Cloud, and High Performance Computing (HPC) continuum. Comprehensive and in-depth analyses of these data are critical for hypothesis validation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Renan Souza , Timothy Poteet , Brian Etz , Daniel Rosendo , Amal Gueroudji , Woong Shin , Prasanna Balaprakash , Rafael Ferreira da Silva

In complex data analyses it is increasingly important to capture information about the usage of data sets in addition to their preservation over time to ensure reproducibility of results, to verify the work of others and to ensure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Richard McClatchey

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

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

Analytic software tools and workflows are increasing in capability, complexity, number, and scale, and the integrity of our workflows is as important as ever. Specifically, we must be able to inspect the process of analytic workflows to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Scott Friedman , Jeff Rye , David LaVergne , Dan Thomsen , Matthew Allen , Kyle Tunis

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

This paper considers the problem of efficiently answering reachability queries over views of provenance graphs, derived from executions of workflows that may include recursion. Such views include composite modules and model fine-grained…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Zhuowei Bao , Susan B. Davidson , Tova Milo

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

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

Despite the excelling performance of machine learning models, understanding their decisions remains a long-standing goal. Although commonly used attribution methods from explainable AI attempt to address this issue, they typically rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz , Nils Strodthoff

Conducting data analysis tasks rarely occur in isolation. Especially in intelligence analysis scenarios where different experts contribute knowledge to a shared understanding, members must communicate how insights develop to establish…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jeremy E. Block , Shaghayegh Esmaeili , Eric D. Ragan , John R. Goodall , G. David Richardson

An advantage of scientific workflow systems is their ability to collect runtime provenance information as an execution trace. Traces include the computation steps invoked as part of the workflow run along with the corresponding data…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Shawn Bowers , Timothy McPhillips , Bertram Ludäscher

The field of query-by-example aims at inferring queries from output examples given by non-expert users, by finding the underlying logic that binds the examples. However, for a very small set of examples, it is difficult to correctly infer…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Amir Gilad , Yuval Moskovitch

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

Current recommendation systems are significantly affected by a serious issue of temporal data shift, which is the inconsistency between the distribution of historical data and that of online data. Most existing models focus on utilizing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lei Zheng , Ning Li , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Data attribution methods trace model behavior back to its training dataset, offering an effective approach to better understand ''black-box'' neural networks. While prior research has established quantifiable links between model output and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tong Xie , Haoyu Li , Andrew Bai , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Provenance is information about the origin, derivation, ownership, or history of an object. It has recently been studied extensively in scientific databases and other settings due to its importance in helping scientists judge data validity,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-12-03 James Cheney , Umut Acar , Amal Ahmed