Querying and Re-Using Workflows with VisTrails

Summary: Provenance-aware querying and refinement of workflows via example and analogy. Demonstrated in VisTrails, an open-source provenance-enabled scientific workflow system that integrates diverse tools and visualization environments, enabling reusable, easily adaptable workflows across domains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4075
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 4.427232e-05
Overall Rank: 8,933 | 37.86%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,463	noWorkflow: a Tool for Collecting, Analyzing, and Managing Provenance from Python Scripts	2017	VLDB	8.7561396e-05
6,295	Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it	2020	CIDR	5.1249204e-05
12,282	Searching Workflows with Hierarchical Views	2010	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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