OPUS: A Lightweight System for Observational Provenance in User Space

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Nikilesh Balakrishnan, Thomas Bytheway, Ripduman Sohan, and Andy Hopper, University of Cambridge

Abstract: 

A variety of current provenance systems address the challenges of provenance capture, storage and query. However they require special setup and configuration, do not capture all I/O operations and limit themselves to specific specialised platforms. In this paper we propose the design of a data provenance capture and query tool called OPUS. OPUS works entirely in user space, is light-weight and requires minimum user intervention. OPUS is based on a formal model for versioning provenance objects that enables the succinct, complete representation of I/O operations in a manner that abstracts it from the details of the underlying operating system.

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@inproceedings {180755,
author = {Nikilesh Balakrishnan and Thomas Bytheway and Ripduman Sohan and Andy Hopper},
title = {{OPUS}: A Lightweight System for Observational Provenance in User Space},
booktitle = {Presented as part of the 5th {USENIX} Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance},
year = {2013},
address = {Lombard, IL},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/tapp13/opus-lightweight-system-observational-provenance-user-space},
publisher = {{USENIX}},
}
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