[Storage-research-list] CFP: TaPP 2010; Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance

[Soules, Craig]

TaPP '10 Call for Papers
http://www.usenix.org/events/tapp10/cfp/

2nd Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '10)
February 22, 2010
San Jose, CA

TaPP '10 will be co-located with the 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10), which will take place February 23-26, 2010.

Important Dates
Submissions due: December 14, 2009, 11:59 p.m. PST
Notification of acceptance: January 22, 2010
Electronic files due: February 16, 2010

Overview

Provenance, or meta-information about computations, computer systems, database queries, scientific workflows, and so on, is emerging as a central issue in a number of disciplines. The TaPP workshop series builds upon a set of Workshops on Principles of Provenance organized in 2007-2009, which helped raise the profile of this area within diverse research communities, such as databases, security, and programming languages. We hope to attract serious cross-disciplinary, foundational, and highly speculative research and to facilitate needed interaction with the broader systems community and with industry.

Topics

We invite submissions addressing research problems involving provenance in any area of computer science, including but not limited to:

Databases
Data provenance and lineage
Uncertainty/probabilistic databases
Curated databases
Data quality/integration/cleaning
Privacy/anonymity
Data forensics
Programming languages and software engineering
Bi-directional, adaptive, and self-adjusting computation
Traceability
Source code management/version control/configuration management
Model-driven design and analysis
Systems and security
Provenance aware/versioned file systems
Provenance and audit/integrity/information flow security
Trusted computing
Traces and reflective/adaptive/self-adjusting systems
Digital libraries
Workflows/scientific computation
Efficient/incremental recomputation
Scientific data exploration and visualization
Workflow provenance querying
User interfaces

Thanks,
Craig Soules