noWorkflow: a Tool for Collecting, Analyzing, and Managing Provenance from Python Scripts

Summary: noWorkflow systematically collects provenance from Python scripts, including execution data and script evolution. Open-source provenance management enables reproducibility and analysis of computational experiments for research workflows. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11467
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 8.7477473e-05
Overall Rank: 2,462 | 82.90%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,481	Automating Large-Scale Data Quality Verification	2018	VLDB	0.00011715754
2,456	Production Machine Learning Pipelines: Empirical Analysis and Optimization Opportunities	2021	SIGMOD	8.7649259e-05
5,088	Improving Reproducibility of Data Science Pipelines through Transparent Provenance Capture	2020	VLDB	5.7023581e-05
5,293	Bolt-on, Compact, and Rapid Program Slicing for Notebooks	2022	VLDB	5.5783254e-05
6,290	Lightweight Inspection of Data Preprocessing in Native Machine Learning Pipelines	2021	CIDR	5.1220786e-05
7,481	Provenance-Enabled Explainable AI	2024	SIGMOD	4.7135369e-05
8,166	Capturing and Querying Fine-grained Provenance of Preprocessing Pipelines in Data Science	2021	VLDB	4.567959e-05
9,911	ElasticNotebook: Enabling Live Migration for Computational Notebooks	2024	VLDB	4.2524493e-05
10,825	APEX-DAG: Library and Language independent Pipeline EXtraction	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,751	DfAnalyzer: Runtime Dataflow Analysis of Scientific Applications using Provenance	2018	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,937	Querying and Re-Using Workflows with VisTrails	2008	SIGMOD	4.4229886e-05

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