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Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities
Summary: Provenance in scientific workflows spans data products and workflow specifications to enable reproducibility, sharing, and reuse. Surveys current systems' provenance support, highlights emerging applications, and sketches open problems and directions for database research.
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Paper ID
h5b67dc8717941c3b
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00012945546
Overall Rank
943 | 93.67%
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376772
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BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{davidson_sigmod08,
title = {{Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities}},
author = {Davidson, Susan B. and Freire, Juliana},
series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376772},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376772},
year = {2008}
}
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