TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerhards, Michael
A1  - Belloum, Adam
A1  - Berretz, Frank
A1  - Sander, Volker
A1  - Skorupa, Sascha
T1  - A history-tracing XML-based provenance framework for workflows
T2  - The 5th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
N2  - The importance of validating and reproducing the outcome of computational processes is fundamental to many application domains. Assuring the provenance of workflows will likely become even more important with respect to the incorporation of human tasks to standard workflows by emerging standards such as WS-HumanTask. This paper addresses this trend by an actor-based workflow approach that actively support provenance. It proposes a framework to track and store provenance information automatically that applies for various workflow management systems. In particular, the introduced provenance framework supports the documentation of workflows in a legally binding way. The authors therefore use the concept of layered XML documents, i.e. history-tracing XML. Furthermore, the proposed provenance framework enables the executors (actors) of a particular workflow task to attest their operations and the associated results by integrating digital XML signatures.
KW  - workflow
KW  - provenance
KW  - framework
KW  - containers
KW  - humans
KW  - synchronization
KW  - libraries
KW  - history
KW  - concrete
KW  - XML
Y1  - 2011
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.fh-aachen.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4274
SN  - 978-1-4244-8989-3
N1  - The 5th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, 14 Nov. 2010, New Orleans, USA
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
ER  -