[TYPES/announce] CfP: ProvenanceWeek, IPAW, and TaPP 2020

[James Cheney]

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                                Call for Papers
                               4th ProvenanceWeek
        8th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW '20)
    12th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '20)
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                      June 22-25, 2020, UNC Charlotte, USA
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                        https://provenanceweek.org/2020/

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OVERVIEW
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Provenance describes the entities and processes involved in producing or
otherwise influencing a resource. It provides a critical foundation for
assessing the authenticity of computationally derived results, enabling
trust,
and facilitating reuse and reproducibility. Provenance provides insight
into the
origins and derivation of data for data quality assessments, debugging and
search.

Topics in provenance include capture, storage, usage, security,
interoperability, and applications. Of particular interest are the
fundamental
problems that must be solved in order to make provenance a useful and usable
tool in the world today: What theoretical problems need to be solved? What
practical problems can we tackle? What lessons have we learned from real
implementations?

Continuing the first three successful ProvenanceWeek events in 2014, 2016,
and
2018, ProvenanceWeek 2020 aims to provide a venue for both mature research
contributions and early-stage research in the area of provenance, and to
attract
a broad audience of researchers working on provenance techniques,
researchers in
other disciplines that make use of, or apply, provenance techniques, and
participants from industry or government.

ProvenanceWeek 2020 will feature two primary events organized into tracks,
the
International Provence and Annotation Workshop (IPAW) track and the Theory
and
Practice of Provenance (TaPP) track, and in addition, will feature a joint
poster/demo track.

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Topics
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The goal of ProvenanceWeek is to bring together researchers and
practitioners
who are studying, applying, and advancing provenance in scientific and
scholarly
uses.

Topics of interest for ProvenanceWeek include, but are not limited to the
following:

* Provenance visualization, and human interaction with provenance
* Provenance for big data and extreme computing
* Provenance for attribution and trust
* Provenance for transparency and accountability
* Security and privacy implications of provenance
* Provenance, social media, and the semantic web
* Provenance analytics, discovery, and reasoning about provenance and its
quality
* Data sharing and data citation
* Provenance of workflows and annotations
* Standardization of provenance models, services, and representations
* Provenance management system prototypes and commercial solutions
* Applications of provenance in real-life settings
* Theoretical foundations of provenance
* Connections between provenance and established topics in other research
fields
  (programming languages, security, software engineering, fairness, etc.)
* Provenance-based audit and forensics
* Design, performance and scalability of provenance systems

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Important Dates
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- Co-located event proposal deadline:                   February 1, 2020
- Co-located event acceptance notification:             February 15, 2020
- Abstract deadline:                                    March 1, 2020
- Paper deadline:                                       March 8, 2020
- Demo / Poster deadline:                               April 9, 2020
- Author notification:                                  May 1, 2020
- Camera ready due:                                     June 4, 2020

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Conference Organizers
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- Boris Glavic (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) - ProvenanceWeek PC
Chair
- Vanessa Braganholo (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) - IPAW PC
Chair
- Thomas Pasquier (University of Bristol, UK) - TaPP PC Chair
- David Koop (Northern Illinois University, USA) - Poster/Demo Chair
- Thomas Moyer (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) - Local
Chair

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Submissions
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Authors can submit papers to either the IPAW, TaPP, or demo/poster track of
ProvenanceWeek. Submission of the same or closely related work to both
tracks is
expressly disallowed. The submission site for all tracks is:

https://pw2020.thomasmoyer.org/pw2020/

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IPAW Track Research Papers
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Authors are invited to submit original research work the IPAW track. This
track
solicits full research papers that describe mature, high-quality research
on the
topics of interest of the Provenance Week. Papers submitted to IPAW are
expected
to have some form of initial validation, such as a case study or preliminary
experiments showing the feasibility of the proposed approach. A proceedings
volume will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series. Springer offers authors the choice to publish their papers
as open access at an additional fee.

Papers must be:
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- not published or under review elsewhere

- no longer than 16 pages + references

- formatted according to the LNCS guidelines

https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

- submitted as PDF files to the IPAW track at:
https://pw2020.thomasmoyer.org/pw2020/

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TaPP Track Research Papers
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The TaPP track continues the tradition of TaPP to provide a genuine workshop
environment for discussing and developing new ideas and exploring
connections
between disciplines and between academic research on provenance and
practical
applications.

We invite innovative and creative contributions, including papers outlining
new
challenges for provenance research, promising formal approaches to
provenance,
innovative use of provenance, experience-based insights, resourceful
experiments, and visionary (and possibly risky) ideas. The provenance
community
is very diverse, we therefore strongly encourage authors to contextualize
their
work.

Papers must be:
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- not published or under review elsewhere

- no longer than 5 pages (excluding references and appendix) following
USENIX format
  https://www.usenix.org/conferences/author-resources/paper-templates

- Submitting shorter papers is not discouraged. Specifically, papers
presenting
  visionary or preliminary ideas often tend to be shorter than the page
  limit. Please clearly prefix your paper title with “vision” when
appropriate.

- Furthermore, TaPP is a workshop primarily focused on the presentation of
  early-stage research papers. If the page limit would preclude a future
  full-length publication (e.g. to VLDB), please, feel free to submit a
shorter
  paper. If you want to make use of the option, please add the following
mention
  at the end of your abstract:

  \textbf{We limited the paper to 4 pages as to allow a future full-length.
publication.}.

  This will be taken into account by the reviewers. This mention should be
  removed in the camera-ready version.

- Please, note that the appendix may contain additional material as
appropriate
  (e.g. extended proof, full evaluation break down), but it should not be
  essential to the comprehension of the paper.

- submitted as PDF files to the TaPP track at:
https://pw2020.thomasmoyer.org/pw2020/

The proceedings of TaPP will be published by USENIX (open access).

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Poster/Demo papers
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ProvenanceWeek encourages the presentation of posters and
demonstrations. Proposals for posters and demonstrations should be limited
to a
short description. For posters please describe the poster content and
research
problem. For demonstrations clearly indicate what is going to be
demonstrated,
the significance of the research contribution, and/or applications. Accepted
posters and demonstrations will be presented during a separate session at
the
workshop.

Demo and poster proposal must be:
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- no longer than 2 pages

- formatted according to the USENIX instructions:
  https://www.usenix.org/conferences/author-resources/paper-templates

- submitted as PDF files to the poster track at:
https://pw2020.thomasmoyer.org/pw2020/

- Poster authors are strongly encouraged to include an optional draft of
their
  poster layout and content. This addition gives a clear idea to reviewers
of
  what to expect and provides the opportunity for authors to receive
  feedback. All submissions should be in PDF format. Those who intend to
show
  demos are also highly encouraged to submit a short accompanying video or
other
  supplementary materials.

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Proposals for Co-Located Events
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We are looking for a small number of original and high-quality events, which
focus on novel and visionary directions for provenance. Such events should
seek
to welcome work in progress that is not prime for proper refereed
publications.

Events that help broaden the community and increase its impact are
particularly
welcome. Examples of co-located events include tutorials, challenges, and
discussions on specific topics. Co-located events should not issue formal
calls
for papers and should not have formal proceedings (since papers should be
sent
to IPAW or TAPP). Co-located events can be half a day or a full day.

If you are interested in organizing a co-located event at Provenance Week,
please send an email to [bglavic] at [iit] o [edu] with:

- event title
- event aims
- organizers
- proposed format
- duration
- how it helps broaden community and increase impact

Important Dates:
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- Proposal Submission: Febuary 1st, 2020
- Notification of Acceptance: Feburary 15th, 2020


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TaPP PC
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Adriane Chapman (University of Southampton, UK)
Ana Trisovic (Harvard University, USA)
Ashish Gehani (SRI, USA)
Berrada Ghita (King’s College London, UK)
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
David Eyers (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Irini Fundulaki (ICS-FORTH, Greece)
Khalid Belhajjame (Paris-Dauphine University, France)
Lukas Rupprech (IBM, USA)
Matteo Interlandi (Microsoft, USA)
Marta Mattoso (COPPEFederal Univ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Mercè Crosas (Harvard University, USA)
Melanie Herschel (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Nicole Bidoit-Tollu (University Paris Sud, France)
Sebastian Schelter (New York University, USA)
Xiao Yu (NEC Laboratories America, USA)
Xueyuan (Michael) Han (Harvard University, USA)
Yulai Xie (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

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IPAW PC
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Andreas Schreiber (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Barbara Lerner (Mount Holyoke College, USA)
Beth Plale (Indiana University, USA)
Daniel de Oliveira (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
Daniel Garijo (University of Southern California, USA)
David Corsar (Robert Gordon University, UK)
Dong Huynh (King’s College of London, UK)
Fernando Chirigati (New York University, USA)
Grigoris Karvounarakis (LogicBlox, USA)
Hala Skaf-Molli   (Nantes University, France)
Ilkay Altintas (San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA)
Jacek Cala (Newcastle University, UK)
James Cheney (University of Edinburgh, UK)
James Frew (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
James Myers (University of Michigan, USA)
Jan Van Den Bussche (Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium)
Luc Moreau (King’s College London, UK)
Luiz M. R. Gadelha Jr. (LNCC, Brazil)
Paolo Missier (Newcastle University, UK)
Paul Groth (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Pinar Alper (Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Luxembourg)
Shawn Bowers (Gonzaga University, USA)
Simon Miles (King’s College London, UK)
Tanu Malik (DePaul University, USA)
Timothy Clark (University of Virginia, USA)
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