San Francisco will host the Theory and Practice of Provenance conference on 23 February, 2009. Image courtesy of Steven Kapinos, sxc.hu

The Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP) workshop continues an informal series on meta-information about computations, computer systems, database queries,  and scientific workflows.

We invite submissions addressing research problems involving provenance in any area of computer science, including but not limited to:

• Databases
• Data provenance and lineage
• Uncertainty/probabilistic databases
• Curated databases
• Data quality/integration/cleaning
• Privacy/anonymity
• Data forensics
• Programming languages and software engineering
• Bi-directional, adaptive, and self-adjusting computation
• Traceability
• Source code management/version control/configuration management
• Model-driven design and analysis
• Systems and security
• Provenance aware/versioned file systems
• Provenance and audit/integrity/information flow security
• Trusted computing
• Traces and reflective/adaptive/self-adjusting systems
• Digital libraries
• Workflows/scientific computation
• Efficient/incremental recomputation
• Scientific data exploration and visualization
• Workflow provenance querying
• User interfaces

We invite submissions of either full papers describing relatively mature work or short papers on ongoing work. Short papers are meant to allow authors to talk about ongoing work that is not yet suitable for publication. Short papers may be included in the online proceedings at the authors' discretion.

Submissions will be received electronically via the web form, which asks for contact information for the paper and allows for the submission of your full paper file in PDF format. Please do not email submissions. 

Complete program and registration information will be available in late January 2009 on the workshop website.