A protocol for recording provenance in service-oriented grids

  • Authors:
  • Paul Groth;Michael Luck;Luc Moreau

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom;School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom;School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • OPODIS'04 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Principles of Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Both the scientific and business communities, which are beginning to rely on Grids as problem-solving mechanisms, have requirements in terms of provenance. The provenance of some data is the documentation of process that led to the data; its necessity is apparent in fields ranging from medicine to aerospace. To support provenance capture in Grids, we have developed an implementation-independent protocol for the recording of provenance. We describe the protocol in the context of a service-oriented architecture and formalise the entities involved using an abstract state machine or a three-dimensional state transition diagram. Using these techniques we sketch a liveness property for the system.