IPAW 2016 - 6th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop

ProvenanceWeek, June 6-9, 2016, is being hosted by The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia, USA, a short metro ride from Washington D.C. The workshops IPAW and TAPP will be co-located and accompanied by a number of exciting, original events, which focus on novel and adventurous directions for Provenance.
Following the successful inception of ProvenanceWeek in 2014, this year's installment will again co-locate the IPAW and TaPP workshops as well as several satellite events focusing on novel directions of provenance. IPAW and TaPP build both on a successful history of provenance workshops that bring together researchers from a wide range of computer science fields including workflows, semantic web, databases, HPC and distributed systems, operating systems, programming languages, and software engineering; included are researchers from other fields such as biology and physics that have urgent provenance needs. Provenance is increasingly important in data science, Big Data, cloud computing, workflow systems, and many other areas. By providing a record of the data creation process and of dependencies between data, provenance information is essential for tracing errors in transformed data back to erroneous inputs, access control, auditing, repeatability and reproducibility, evaluating data quality, and establishing ownership of data.
Topics
The goal of ProvenanceWeek is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are studying, applying, and advancing provenance in scientific and scholarly uses.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Provenance management system prototypes and commercial solutions
Provenance analytics, querying, and reasoning about provenance
Visualizing provenance information
Performance aspects of provenance capture, storage, and analytics
Standardization of provenance models and representations
Security and privacy implications of provenance
Applications of provenance in real life settings
Human interaction with provenance
Retroactive reconstruction of provenance
Using provenance for evaluating data quality and trust in data
Novel methods for capturing provenance
Integrating provenance information
Interoperability among provenance-aware systems
Provenance discovery
Conference Organizers
Marta Mattoso (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - ProvenanceWeek Senior PC Chair
Boris Glavic (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA) - IPAW PC Chair
Sarah Cohen-Boulakia (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) - TaPP PC Chair
Adriane P. Chapman (The MITRE Corporation, Washington DC, USA) - Local Chair