TAPP'15 count down

Dear all,

The time for TAPP'15 is drawing quickly close, 8-9 July in Edinburgh 
this year.

With ~1 month to go, we hope you are all actively planning for a trip to 
Edinburgh in July.

Furthermore, we have some great news to share with you. We have 
confirmed two invited speakers:

- Professor Renee Miller, University of Toronto/IBM (joint invited 
speaker with BICOD 2015)
- Professor Trevor Martin, University of Bristol

We hope this will make TAPP'15 an exciting event as usual, together with 
your great contributions!

We do look forward to seeing a lot of you soon, in Edinburgh!

Full CFP below

Regards,
   - Jun, Paolo, James




TaPP'15 - Second Call for Papers
7th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance
July 8-9, 2015; Edinburgh, UK
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/

== News ==

We are pleased to announce that TaPP will feature two invited speakers:

Professor Renee Miller, University of Toronto/IBM (joint invited speaker 
with BICOD 2015)
Professor Trevor Martin, University of Bristol
We gratefully acknowledge support from the Scottish Informatics and 
Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) 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.

== 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.

=== Research papers ===

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.

Details of the workshop format are decided based on the volume and type 
of submissions that we receive. We expect a mixture of presentations and 
discussions. Anyone with an accepted submission should expect ample 
opportunity to present their ideas at the workshop.

=== Posters ===

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

== Important Dates ==
Abstracts Due: April 20th, 2015
Submission Deadline: April 27th, 2015
Poster Abstracts Due: May 25th, 2014 (To be aligned with BICOD)
Notification of Acceptance: June 1st, 2015
Camera ready submission due: June 15th, 2015
Workshop: July 8-9th, 2015

== How and What to Submit ==
Submissions should be no more than 4 pages in ACM SIGPLAN (two-column) 
format. If supporting material is needed, an extra 4 pages may be 
submitted, but the committee will not be obliged to read them.

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.

== Conference Chairs ==
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, University of Illinois (UIUC), USA
Sudeepa Roy, University of Washington, USA
Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK

Received on Wednesday, 25 March 2015 09:49:23 UTC