Decoupling Provenance Capture and Analysis from Execution
Manolis Stamatogiannakis, VU University Amsterdam; Paul Groth, Elsevier Labs; Herbert Bos, VU University Amsterdam
Capturing provenance usually involves the direct observation and instrumentation of the execution of a program or workflow. However, this approach restricts provenance analysis to pre-determined programs and methods. This may not pose a problem when one is interested in the provenance of a well-defined workflow, but may limit the analysis of unstructured processes such as interactive desktop computing. In this paper, we present a new approach to capturing provenance based on full execution record and replay. Our approach leverages full-system execution trace logging and replay, which allows the complete decoupling of analysis from the original execution. This enables the selective analysis of the execution using progressively heavier instrumentation.
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author = {Manolis Stamatogiannakis and Paul Groth and Herbert Bos},
title = {Decoupling Provenance Capture and Analysis from Execution},
booktitle = {7th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP 15)},
year = {2015},
address = {Edinburgh, Scotland},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/tapp15/workshop-program/presentation/stamatogiannakis},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul
}