TaPP'15 - 7th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance 
                             Call for Papers
                       July 8-9, 2015; Edinburgh, UK
                 In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN and SIGMOD
           Preliminary website: http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/tapp2015/

Note: 
this year TAPP is co-located with The British Database Conference (BICOD, July 6-8)  http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/BICOD2015/
Renee Miller (U Toronto) will give a joint TAPP/BICOD keynote talk on July 8th.

** Timeline and Important Dates **
  Abstracts Due:               April 20th, 2015 
  Submission Deadline:         April 27th, 2015
  Poster Abstracts Due:        May 25th, 2015
  Notification of Acceptance:  June 1st, 2015
  Camera ready submission due: June 15th, 2015
  Workshop:                    July 8-9th, 2015

  The Theory and Practice of Provenance workshop series was started in
  San Francisco in 2009 and held in San Jose (2010), Heraklion, Crete
  (2011), Boston (2012), Lombard, Illinois (2013) and Cologne, Germany
  (2014, as part of ProvenanceWeek 2014).  TaPP aims to be a venue for
  early-stage and innovative research ideas related to provenance, and
  a forum to encourage exchange of ideas between researchers working on 
  provenance and practitioners or potential users of such research.  
  Industry and academic participants interested in provenance in any 
  setting are welcome, and workshop contributions describing unsolved 
  problems or new potential application areas for provenance research 
  are particularly welcome.

** Focus **
Provenance provides needed insight into the origins and derivation of data, as well as formal documentation that can be instrumental in data quality assessment, program debugging, and search.
Research topics of relevance to TAPP span the entire metadata lifecycle: from modelling to capture, storage, usage, querying and mining, to security and interoperable exchange across systems.
TAPP also invites application-oriented contributions, on provenance-aware systems and other practical usage of provenance.

** Workshop Format **
In keeping with its successful tradition, TaPP’15 is a workshop, as opposed to a mini-conference. We aim to provide a platform for presenting and discussing a range of fresh ideas, and actively encourage inter-disciplinary work beyond the confines of the data management community.

** What to Submit **
Contributions are typically 4 and never more than 6 pages long. They should describe challenges for provenance research, brief descriptions of new applications, pie-in-the sky research ideas, and anything else that will help engage the researchers’ minds.
While brief and readable descriptions of research are encouraged, recycled conference submissions are strongly discouraged.
Contributions are collected into online proceedings, hosted by Usenix and indexed by DBLP, Google Scholar, etc.

We expect the program to include a mixture of presentations and discussions. 
Authors should expect ample opportunity to present their ideas at the workshop.

*NEW*  In addition to papers, we anticipate inviting posters for a dedicated poster session.

Submissions should be no more than 6 pages in ACM SIGPLAN (two-column) format.  If supporting material is needed, it may be included in an appendix, but the committee will not be obliged to read the appendix.  Shorter submissions (under 4 pages) are welcome to describe early-stage work, and are not considered to be part of the formal proceedings.


All contributions should be submitted online at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tapp15.
As in previous years, accepted TaPP papers will be open access via a USENIX web site. 

We gratefully acknowledge support from the Scottish Informatics and Computer 
Science Alliance (SICSA, http://www.sicsa.ac.uk) for this event.  Thanks to 
their generous support, we will be able to offer free registration to up to 
6 PhD students at Scottish institutions for TaPP/BICOD.  

Organizers
Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, PC co-chair
Jun Zhao, Lancaster University, PC co-chair
James Cheney, The University of Edinburgh - local chair

Program Committee

Vanessa Braganholo, UFF, Brasil	
Adriane Chapman, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, LRI, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Vasa Curcin, King's College, London, UK
Tom De Nies, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium	
Lois Delcambre, Portland State University, USA	
Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH, Greece
Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Ashish Gehani, SRI International, USA
Boris Glavic, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Paul Groth, Elsevier, NL	
Melanie Herschel,  University of Stuttgart, Germany
Bertram Ludaescher, UIUC and NCSA, USA
Simon	Miles King’s College London, UK
Luc	Moreau University of Southampton, UK
Sudeepa Roy, University of Washington, USA
Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK