Reorganizing Workflow Evolution Provenance

Authors: 

David Koop and Juliana Freire, New York University

Abstract: 

The provenance of related computations presents the opportunity to better understand and explore the differences and similarities of various approaches. As users design and refine workflows, evolution provenance captures the relationships between workflows as actions that mutate one workflow to another. However, such provenance may not always be the most compact or intuitive. This paper presents algorithms to update and transform workflow evolution provenance to achieve a representation that better exposes the correspondences between computations. We evaluate these algorithms based on the efficiency of the representation as well as the speed of the transformation.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {184651,
author = {David Koop and Juliana Freire},
title = {Reorganizing Workflow Evolution Provenance},
booktitle = {6th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP 2014)},
year = {2014},
address = {Cologne},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/tapp2014/agenda/presentation/koop},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}
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