Provenance as Dependency Analysis

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2007-08-16

arxiv.org/abs/0708.2173v2

Computer Science

Databases

Long version of paper in 2007 Symposium on Database Programming Languages; revised November 2009

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Provenance is information recording the source, derivation, or history of some information. Provenance tracking has been studied in a variety of settings; however, although many design points have been explored, the mathematical or semantic foundations of data provenance have received comparatively little attention. In this paper, we argue that dependency analysis techniques familiar from program analysis and program slicing provide a formal foundation for forms of provenance that are intended to show how (part of) the output of a query depends on (parts of) its input. We introduce a semantic characterization of such dependency provenance, show that this form of provenance is not computable, and provide dynamic and static approximation techniques.

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