Provenance Analytics (@ProvenanceWeek) - Call for Contributions

Call for contributions
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Provenance analytics (co-located with the Provenance Week (IPAW + TAPP))
http://provenanceweek.org/2014/analytics/
Cologne, 9th of June, 2014
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Provenance<http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/#dfn-provenance> is a record that
describes people, institutions, entities, and activities involved in
producing, influencing, or delivering a digital artifact. There have been
several efforts dedicated to the design of data models for provenance, the
integration with legacy systems, the generation and reconstruction of
provenance. However, relatively little attention has been given to the
principled use of provenance for analyzing the behavior of systems,
building models to predict their behavior, and recognizing anomalous
situations.

In this workshop, we will bring researchers and practitioners together to
discuss principles and approaches to provenance analysis and analytics. We
will also create a survey on the usage of provenance.

Topics of interest

  *   Algorithms for provenance analysis and transformation
  *   Machine learning techniques applied to provenance
  *   Reasoning systems for provenance
  *   Implementation, scalability, and performance of provenance analysis
  *   Predictive models based on provenance
  *   Applications of provenance analysis/analytics
  *   Provenance based quality analysis, trust rating, reputation
  *   Online and offline use of provenance
  *   Provenance for auditing and accountability
  *   Privacy issues pertaining to provenance
  *   Reasoning with incomplete or uncertain provenance
  *   Usability of provenance
  *   Industrial experience with provenance

*Submission details and important dates*
This workshop will be highly interactive and discussion-based. Authors are
invited to submit short papers (*1-4 pages in LNCS format* (
http://www.springer.com/lncs)) describing frameworks for provenance that
are under development (or being deployed for real use),
applications of provenance that illustrate the use of provenance in
practical settings, description of a vision or new requirements for
provenance based on practical use.

Submission Deadline: *May 4th 2014*.

Submissions can be sent through
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=provanalytics14. Provenance
Analytics will be co-located with the Provenance Week<
http://provenanceweek.org/2014/>, taking place in Cologne (Germany), during
the week beginning 9th of June, 2014.

*Note*: Position papers will not be published in the proceedings. Companion
papers, if desired, should be submitted to TAPP<
http://provenanceweek.dlr.de/tapp/> or IPAW<
http://provenanceweek.dlr.de/ipaw/>. Accepted submissions will be made
available online at http://provenanceweek.org/2014/analytics/.

Thanks,
Reza B'Far, Juliana Freire, Daniel Garijo,Yolanda Gil, Trung Dong Huynh,
John Ibbotson, Timothy Lebo, Luc Moreau, Tom de Nies and Curt Tilmes.
(Provenance analytics organizers).