PRC 2014 - 1st Provenance Reconstruction Challenge 2014

1st Provenance Reconstruction Challenge 2014
June 13 , 2014 ? Cologne, Germany
(Part of Provenance Week 2014: [1])
See [2] for news & updates
Overview
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While the use of version control systems, workflow engines,
provenance-aware filesystems and databases, is growing there is
still a plethora of data that lacks associated data provenance.
To help solve this problem, a number of research groups have
been looking at reconstructing the provenance of data using the
computational environment in which it resides. This research
however is still very new in the community. Thus, the aim of the
Provenance Reconstruction Challenge is to help spur research
into the reconstruction of provenance by providing a common task
and datasets for experimentation.
The Challenge
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Challenge participants will receive an open data set and
corresponding provenance graphs (in W3C PROV format [3]). They will
then have several months to work with the data trying to
reconstruct the provenance graphs from the open data set. 3
weeks before the challenge face-2-face event the participants
will receive a new data set and a gold standard provenance
graph. Participants are asked to register before the challenge
dataset is released and to prepare a short description of their
system to be placed online after the event. We will provide a
small results template that will help in cataloging the systems.
Call for Evaluations
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Other than the evaluation methods listed at the challenge
webpage [2], we are interested in other forms of evaluation criteria
to measure how well provenance was reconstructed. Please submit
your ideas directly to tom.denies-AT-ugent.be and p.t.groth-AT-vu.nl.
Registration & Submission
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Please register for the event as soon as possible by submitting
a brief abstract and title of your system to EasyChair [4] (max. 2
pages, including references and appendices). This is to help us
know how many systems will be discussed and planning for the
event itself. (Also, it lets us know how much pizza to order…).
Note, you need to register for Provenance Week [1] to attend this
event.
The Event
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At the event, we will have presentations of the results and the
systems as well as a group conversation around the techniques
used. The challenge will not have formal proceedings, however,
the event will result in a joint report about techniques for
reconstructing provenance and paths forward.
Schedule
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February 17, 2014 Test Data released
May 18, 2014 Last day to register for participation
May 19, 2014 Challenge Data released
June 13, 2014 Provenance Reconstruction Challenge Event at
Provenance Week ? Cologne Germany
Organizers
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Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam
Tom De Nies, iMinds ? Ghent University ? MMLab
Ruben Verborgh, iMinds ? Ghent University ? MMLab
Sara Magliacane, VU University Amsterdam
[1] http://provenanceweek.dlr.de/
[2] http://www.data2semantics.org/prov-reconstruction-...
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/
[4] https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=provre...