From: Juliana Freire <juliana AT cs.utah.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:13:01 -0700
Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop
IPAW2008
June 17-18, Salt Lake City, Utah
http://www.sci.utah.edu/ipaw2008
Computing has been an enormous accelerator to science and industry
alike and it has led to an information explosion in many different
fields. The unprecedented volume of data acquired from sensors,
derived by simulations and data analysis processes, accumulated in
warehouses, and often shared on the Web, has given rise to a new field
of research: provenance management. Provenance (also referred to as
audit trail, lineage, and pedigree) captures information about the
steps used to generate a given data product. Such information provides
important documentation that is key to preserve data, to determine the
data's quality and authorship, to understand, reproduce, as well as
validate results.
The problem of provenance management is inherently interdisciplinary.
Provenance solutions are needed in many different domains and
applications, from environmental science and physics simulations, to
business processes and data integration in warehouses. Not
surprisingly, different techniques and provenance models have been
proposed in many areas such as workflow systems, visualization,
databases, digital libraries, and knowledge representation. An
important challenge we face today is how to integrate these techniques
and models so that complete provenance can be derived for complex data
products.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together computer scientists
from different areas and provenance users to discuss open problems
related to the provenance of computational and non-computational
artifacts. Of special relevance to this edition of the workshop are
papers that address fundamental issues related to the understanding
and integration of different provenance techniques. The topics of
interest include but are certainly not limited to:
- Models for provenance
- Architectures and data management techniques for provenance data
- Applications requiring provenance, case studies, methodologies
- Provenance-based reasoning and Semantic Web technologies
- Security and privacy for provenance data
- Provenance integration and interoperability
- Query languages and query processing techniques for provenance data
- Storage and query interfaces for workflows
- Provenance analytics, mining and visualization
- Provenance systems, functionality, protocols, implementation
- Provenance, business processes and compliance
- System prototypes and commercial solutions
- Provenance in Scientific Publications
- Provenance and its relationship to annotation and metadata
* Submission Instructions
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
that are not being considered for publication in any other forum.
Papers submitted cannot exceed eight pages in length,
including reference and appendix. Detailed submission instructions
will be available at the workshop homepage: http://www.sci.utah.edu/
ipaw2008
Submitted research papers will also be automatically considered for
the poster-only option. Proceedings will be published
after the workshop by Springer.
Besides regular paper submissions, to foster interaction on hot topics
and ongoing work, IPAW 2008 also welcomes the submission of posters
and software demonstration proposals. Posters and demo proposals
should be 3 pages long when formatted using the using the same format
as that of research papers. Demonstration proposals should outline the
context and highlights of the software to be presented, and briefly
describe the demo scenario. Posters submissions should focus on
innovative work related to IPAW's topics of interest; we encourage the
joint submission of posters describing new concepts and fundamental
results and of demo proposals of software developed based on those new
concepts.
All of the submissions will be handled electronically. Each paper will
be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
* Important Dates
Submission deadline (papers & demos) March 8, 2008
Notification to authors April 20, 2008
Camera-ready due Tue, May 17, 2008
Workshop June
17-18, 2008
* Workshop Co-Chairs
Juliana Freire, University of Utah, USA
Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
* Program Committee
Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA
Ken Brodlie, University of Leeds, UK
Peter Buneman, University of Edinburgh, UK
James Cheney, University of Edinburgh, UK
Min Chen, Swansea University, UK
Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Paul Groth, ISI, USA
Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA
Juliana Freire, Univ of Utah, USA
Bertram Ludascher, UC Davis, USA
H. V. Jagadish, Univ of Michigan, USA
Marta Mattoso, UFRJ, Brazil
Simon Miles, King's College, UK
Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
Jim Myers, NCSA, USA
Allen Renear, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Margo Seltzer, Harvard University, USA
Claudio Silva, University of Utah, USA
Wang-Chiew Tan, UC Santa Clara, USA
Jan Van den Bussche, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium
Stijn Vansummeren, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium
Daniel J. Weitzner, W3C
* Web Co-Chairs
Erik Jorgensen, University of Utah, USA
Tommy Ellkvist, Linkoping University, Sweden
* Local Organizers
David Koop, University of Utah, USA
Emanuele Santos, University of Utah, USA