Provenance of Adaptation in Scientific and Business Workflows -- Literature Review

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Autores principales: Stage, Ludwig, Dahlberg, Julia, Karastoyanova, Dimka
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author Stage, Ludwig
Dahlberg, Julia
Karastoyanova, Dimka
author_facet Stage, Ludwig
Dahlberg, Julia
Karastoyanova, Dimka
contents In the world of science new technology have opened up the possibility to rely on advanced computational methods and models to conduct and produce scientific research. An important aspect of scientific and business workflows is provenance - which refers to the information describing the production, history or lineage of an end product, which can also be data, digitalized processes and other not tangible artifacts. While there are already systems, tools and standards to capture provenance of data and workflows the provenance of adaptations/changes in workflows has not been addressed yet. In this paper we carry out a literature review to establish the state of the art on this topic and present our methodology and findings. Our findings confirm that provenance of adaptation has not been addressed adequately in the fields of business and scientific workflows. The two fields also have different motivation for recording the lineage of data or processes. While scientific workflows are interested in reproducibility and visualization, business workflows solutions are indirectly connected to compliance, exception handling and analysis. The adaptive nature of workflows in both fields is not reflected in the research on process provenance yet, as our results show. The use of standard provenance standards is also not wide spread.
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spellingShingle Provenance of Adaptation in Scientific and Business Workflows -- Literature Review
Stage, Ludwig
Dahlberg, Julia
Karastoyanova, Dimka
Software Engineering
Cryptography and Security
In the world of science new technology have opened up the possibility to rely on advanced computational methods and models to conduct and produce scientific research. An important aspect of scientific and business workflows is provenance - which refers to the information describing the production, history or lineage of an end product, which can also be data, digitalized processes and other not tangible artifacts. While there are already systems, tools and standards to capture provenance of data and workflows the provenance of adaptations/changes in workflows has not been addressed yet. In this paper we carry out a literature review to establish the state of the art on this topic and present our methodology and findings. Our findings confirm that provenance of adaptation has not been addressed adequately in the fields of business and scientific workflows. The two fields also have different motivation for recording the lineage of data or processes. While scientific workflows are interested in reproducibility and visualization, business workflows solutions are indirectly connected to compliance, exception handling and analysis. The adaptive nature of workflows in both fields is not reflected in the research on process provenance yet, as our results show. The use of standard provenance standards is also not wide spread.
title Provenance of Adaptation in Scientific and Business Workflows -- Literature Review
topic Software Engineering
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22685