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Provenance in Practice Workshop 2009 (PPW '09)
Colocated with NbiS 2009
Indianapolis, USA, 19-21 August 2009
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http://stan.cc.swin.edu.au/~samar/ppw09/

Overview
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Provenance and related issues have gathered interest in the e-Research
community. These include mechanisms to validate data that is generated
through in silico experiments, to provide the context of the data and to
help interpretation of experiments to name a few.

Provenance is not a new concept and has been used in historical studies
for centuries. However, the new context of e-Research where the
provenance concept needs to be applied, poses new challenges, which need
to be solved as a multi-disciplinary effort.

In this workshop, we invite authors to submit their work on provenance
in e-Research. As it is a relatively new area, the workshop aims to
provide a place to discuss challenges, issues and success stories that
authors may have so far experienced.

The workshop encourages submissions from the end users of provenance
systems such as those used in computational chemistry, physics, biology,
history, etc. The submission should discuss the provenance requirements
of their domain and experiences in using existing provenance system.

It is envisaged that the workshop will be a meeting place of the
providers (computer scientists) and the users of the provenance system
where lively discussion can take place.

Topics
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Topics of interest to the workshop include:

- Provenance requirements from different domains (chemistry, physics,
arts, scientific publication, etc).
- Data provenance
- Process/Workflow provenance
- Storing, querying and visualisation of provenance data
- System prototypes
- Contemporary issues and challenges in provenance practice and research

Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: Mar 21, 2009
Author Notification: May 5, 2009
Author Registration: June 1, 2009
Final Manuscript: June 5, 2009

Submission Guidelines
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Submit a full paper in English of at most 6 pages according to the IEEE
Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts Style: two columns,
single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10-point fonts.

The details of the style are at:
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/

Paper submission must include contact addresses of all authors,
telephone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. All papers will be
reviewed by at least two reviewers. Submission of a paper should be
regarded as a commitment that, if the paper is accepted, at least one of
the authors will register and attend the conference. Accepted papers
will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Paper submission should be done at:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=ppw09

Programme Committee
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PC Chairs
- Eric Pardede, Latrobe University, Australia. E.Pardede@latrobe.edu.au
- Maria Indrawan, Monash University, Australia. Maria.Indrawan@infotech.monash.edu.au

Publicity Chair
- Samar Zutshi, Swinburne University, Australia. szutshi@swin.edu.au

PC Members
- TBA