Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues. CALL FOR PAPERS International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW'06) Chicago, Illinois, USA May 3-5, 2006 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm/IPAW06 Introduction ------------ This workshop is a follow-up to workshops in Chicago in October 2002 (http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/provenance/) and in Edinburgh in December 2003 (http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/304/). It will further investigate the issues of data provenance, process documentation, data derivation, and data annotation. In scientific and business workflows, typically data is repeatedly copied, corrected, and transformed as it passes through numerous databases or services. Understanding where data has come from and how it arrived in a database or filestore is of crucial importance to the trust a user will put in that data, yet this information is seldom captured properly. The importance of provenance goes well beyond verification; it is closely related to archiving and annotation, also important in the context of scientific and business data. Moreover, it may be used in data discovery. Knowing the provenance of a data item may help a user to make connections with other useful data. Alternatively, a user may want to understand a derivation in order to repeat it with modified parameters, and being able to describe a derivation may help a user to discover whether a particular kind of analysis has already been performed. Annotation is closely related to provenance. End users do more than produce and consume data: they comment on it and refer to it, and to the results of queries upon it. Annotation is therefore an important aspect of communication. One user may want to highlight a point in data space for another to investigate further. They may wish to annotate the result of a query such that similar queries show the annotation. Information for Authors ----------------------- IPAW'06 encourages the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological, and applications papers related to the issue of provenance and annotation. Papers should be no longer than 8 pages (lncs column format). Submissions will be peer reviewed and selected for presentation at the workshop; papers will be evaluated on the basis of the quality of their technical contribution, originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality. There will be proceedings published after the workshop (publisher TBC). Submission instructions ----------------------- To be added here. Topics of interest ------------------ Topics of interest to IPAW'06, include but are not limited to: * models of provenance and annotation * applications requiring provenance, uses cases, methodologies * provenance systems, functionality, protocols, implementation * relationship between provenance, annotation and metadata * provenance-based reasoning and Semantic Web techonologies * relationship between workflows, processes and provenance * security considerations for provenance * scalability issues * granularity of provenance * legal issues relating to provenance * provenance, business processes and compliance Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: February 10, 2006 Acceptance Notification: March 6, 2006 IPAW'06 date: May 3-5, 2006 Location -------- Chicago, Illinois, downtown Sheraton hotel. Provisional Programme Committee ------------------------------- * Dave Berry, National e-Science Centre, UK * Peter Buneman, University of Edinburgh, UK * Ian Foster (co-chair), Argonne National Lab/University of Chicago, USA * Jim Hendler, University of Maryland, USA * Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK * Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA * Luc Moreau (co-chair), University of Southampton, UK * Jim Myers, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA * Mike Wilde, Argonne National Lab/University of Chicago, USA