SWPM-2011

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The Third International Workshop on the role of Semantic Web in Provenance Management

(proposed to be Co-located with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC-2011)

Previous Workshops


Objectives

The recently completed W3C provenance incubator group (Sep. 2009 – Nov. 2010), created to “develop a roadmap” and “recommendations” for a provenance standard, collected more than 33 use cases from a variety of domains that have emphatically illustrated the rapidly increasing focus on provenance management in real world applications . The importance of managing various forms of metadata has also long been recognized as critical in the Semantic Web. Provenance metadata, which describes the origins of the data, is essential to correctly interpret the results of a process execution, to validate data processing tools, to verify the quality of data, and to associate measures of trust to the data. The scale at which data across different domains (e.g. biomedical informatics, scientific discourse, astronomy, oceanography and etc.) is created along with the rapidly increasing Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud mandates the processing and analysis of provenance metadata in a scalable way.

The SWPM workshop has two primary, and complementary, objectives: (1) to explore the role of Semantic Web in addressing some of the critical challenges facing provenance management and (2) to explore the role of provenance in real world Semantic Web applications. Specifically, the workshop topics include:

  • Efficiently capturing, propagating and publishing provenance information as data is processed, fragmented and recombined across multiple applications on a Web scale
  • Models and vocabularies for provenance management to promote provenance interoperability, sharing, and exchange
  • Use cases demonstrating the use of provenance in real world applications (e.g. Scientific discourse)
  • Tools, applications and software frameworks for provenance processing and analysis

Provenance Systems Benchmark

In addition to the above topics, in this edition we are launching the new Provenance Systems Benchmarking (PSB) initiative. Similar to comparable efforts in the relational database community and the Berlin SPARQL benchmark, PSB will define datasets and queries to be used for assessing scalability, complexity, and ease of implementation of provenance systems . We will invite contributions from the community, and will host a special session of the workshop where those contributions will be presented and discussed.

Relevance and Timeliness

Since the very successful first and second editions of the SWPM workshop, co‐located with ISWC 2009 and ISWC 2010 respectively, the momentum on the relationship between provenance and the Semantic Web has, if anything, increased. Following the success of the Provenance Incubator Group, W3C has just announced the creation of the Provenance Working Group to define a“provenance interchange language and define methods to publish and access provenance using that language”. In addition to other aspects of provenance management, SWPM workshops have also focused on provenance interoperability. Hence, SWPM provides a critical platform for the provenance community to share and discuss ongoing and proposed research work that addresses important aspects of provenance management.

Several workshops each addressing different aspects of provenance have been held, including Provenance in Databases, Provenance in Scientific Workflows, the biannual International Provenance and Annotations Workshop (IPAW) (2006 through 2010), and the Usenix workshop on Theory and Applications of Provenance (TAPP), since 2009. None of these workshops, however, has specifically addressed the role of Semantic Web in provenance management. In addition to the W3C Provenance Incubator Group and the new Working Group, the special issues of the Journal of Web Semantics and the IEEE Internet Computing on provenance, strongly emphasize the importance of provenance management for computer science researchers and in the Semantic Web.

Audience

We anticipate the participation of researchers and practitioners interested in both provenance management and Semantic Web. Given the focus of this workshop on provenance management in real world Semantic Web applications we also expect active participation by domain users and Web technologists. Finally, the workshop aims to raise awareness among provenance researchers about Semantic Web and correspondingly highlight provenance management as a rich problem domain for Semantic Web researchers. The last two editions of the workshops have attracted over 30 registered participants and we expect similar or better numbers of participants this year. The active involvement of all of the SWPM organisers in the W3C Provenance Incubator Group and the new Working Group guarantees access to qualified publicity channels for this event.

Workshop Format

SWPM2011 will be a full‐day workshop, with the following format:

  • Research papers: short position papers (up to 2 pages) and full papers (up to 6 pages)
  • Demos and applications: 2 pages + demo
  • Invited talks
  • A special session on the Provenance Systems Benchmark (PSB) Initiative

Invited Talk

TBD

Paper Presentations

The workshop will solicit the submission of original research papers dealing with analytical, theoretical, and practical aspects of provenance management using Semantic Web. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

  • Representation models for provenance, provenance ontologies
  • Use of provenance information in real world applications
  • Reasoning with provenance for assessing trustworthiness, reliability, and quality of data
  • Large scale storage and efficient querying of provenance
  • Interoperability and propagation of provenance across applications
  • Provenance infrastructure for eScience, social media, business, Web applications, and scientific discourse
  • Tools for visualizing and browsing provenance information
  • Provenance summarization to aid usability and scalability

Duration of the Workshop

The workshop is scheduled to be a full-day meeting.

Organization

Chairs

  • Amit Sheth
Amit Sheth is an educator, researcher, and entrepreneur. He is the LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar for Advanced Data Management and Analysis and the director of Kno.e.sis Center at the Wright State University. He has some of the best cited papers (h-index 58) in information integration, workflow management, Semantic Web and semantic web services, and his research interests includes semantics-empowered sensor and social computing on the Web. His research has led to two companies and many deployed systems and applications. http://knoesis.org/amit
  • Tim Finin
Tim Finin is a Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at UMBC, the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Finin is a member of the UMBC ebiquity group where he is working on projects involving social media, the semantic web, intelligent agents, and pervasive computing. He has over 30 years of experience in the applications of AI to information systems and intelligent interfaces and is currently working on social media, the semantic web, intelligent agents and mobile computing. He has authored over 325 refereed publications and an editor in chief of the Journal of Web Semantics. http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~finin/

Organizing Committee/PC Co-Chairs

Satya Sahoo is an assistant professor at the Case Western Reserve University . His research interests include semantic provenance, knowledge representation, and information integration in biomedical and sensor domains. Email: satyasahoo@ieee.org
Jun Zhao is an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Life Science Interface in the University of Oxford. Dr Zhao has computer science research background in a diversity of research areas spanning from bioinformatics workflows, e-Science, provenance, trust of data, semantic web, to integration of biological data resources. Email: jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Paolo Missier is faculty member at the Newcastle University. His recent research interests are in data and information quality, process automation and workflow technology and its implications for data and metadata management. Email: pmissier@cs.man.ac.uk
  • Jose Manuel Gómez-Pérez
Dr. Jose Manuel Gómez-Pérez is R&D Director at Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO) S.A. Among other positions, he has previously worked as Sr. Research Fellow at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Research Manager at iSOCO, and has consulted for companies like British Telecom. Email: jmgomez@isoco.com

Program Committee

(Proposed)

  • Alexander Passant, DERI, NUI Galway (confirmed)
  • Anita De-Ward, Utrecht University (confirmed)
  • Bertram Ludäscher, University of California Davis (confirmed)
  • Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Christine Runnegar, Internet Society (ISOC) (confirmed)
  • David Koop, University of Utah (confirmed)
  • Deborah McGuinness, RPI
  • Edoardo Pignotti, University of Aberdeen (confirmed)
  • GQ Zhang, Case Western Reserve University
  • Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD (confirmed)
  • Irini Fundulaki, ICS Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece (confirmed)
  • James Cheney, University of Edinburgh (confirmed)
  • James Myers, RPI (confirmed)
  • Kei Cheung, Yale University (confirmed)
  • Khalid Belhajjame, University of Manchester (confirmed)
  • Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University (confirmed)
  • Nirmal Mukhi, IBM Research (confirmed)
  • Olaf Hartig, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (confirmed)
  • Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, NIH (confirmed)
  • Paul Groth, VU University, Netherlands (confirmed)
  • Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, University of Texas at El Paso (confirmed)
  • Sam Coppens, Ghent University (confirmed)
  • Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Universite Paris-Sud (confirmed)
  • Simon Miles, King's College London (confirmed)
  • Sudeshna Das, Harvard University (confirmed)
  • Sudha Ram, Arizona State University (confirmed)
  • Yolanda Gil, Information Sciences Institute, USC
  • Yogesh Simmhan, University of Southern California (confirmed)

Submissions of Papers

Submissions and reviewing will be handled using the EasyChair reviewing system. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three members the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings and also made available to attendees on an electronic media (either CD or USB stick).

All submissions should be maximum 6 pages long (in IEEE format http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html) in PDF format.

Please submit your paper using the EasyChair site at: "http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swpm2011"

Important Dates

  • Submissions due: August 5, 2011
  • Notification: September 5, 2011
  • Camera ready papers due: October 1, 2011
  • Workshop Date: October 23/24, 2011
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