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The provenance of an object is the history of its origin and derivation. Provenance tracking records the provenance of an object as it evolves. In computer science, provenance tracking has been studied in many different settings, such as databases [7,3,2], scientific workflows [13,5], and programanalysis [4,12,9], often under different names (lineage, dependence analysis, taint analysis) and with varying degrees of (in)formality. Provenance information can be used inmanyways, for example, to identify which sources of data led to a result, to ensure reproducibility of a scientific workflow, or to check security properties such as information flow.
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Majumdar, R., Meyer, R., Wang, Z. (2013). Provenance Verification. In: Abdulla, P.A., Potapov, I. (eds) Reachability Problems. RP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8169. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41036-9_3
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