Toward provenance capturing as cross-cutting concern

  • Authors:
  • Martin Schäler;Sandro Schulze;Gunter Saake

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg, Germany;School of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg, Germany;School of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • TaPP'12 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Theory and Practice of Provenance
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Although provenance gained much attention, solutions to capture provenance do not meet all the requirements. For instance, most solution currently assume a closed world and are explicitly designed to capture provenance. Thus, they fail in integrating the provenance concern into existing environments. Hence, we argue that provenance should be considered as cross-cutting concern that can easily be integrated into existing systems and aims at establishing a universe of provenance. In this paper, we propose a solution concept, introduce different types of provenance systems, adequate software engineering techniques, and report our experiences from a first prototype.