[provenance-challenge] ACM TOIT special section on Provenance of Online Data (2nd call)

[Miles, Simon]

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call]

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Special Section on Provenance of online data
http://toit.acm.org/

Across many domains, there is a need to trace how data has been created, manipulated and disseminated. This has led to strong recent interest in technology for modelling and reasoning about provenance. Access to provenance information underlies our ability to interpret and to judge the reliability of data, whether on the web, in databases, or within and between applications.

Despite much recent progress in research and standardisation, it is still uncommon for people or software to have access to the provenance of online data. The formal requirements for provenance, including issues such as correctness, completeness, and security of provenance, are not yet fully understood. The question of what is semantically useful provenance and how to capture it is still open, as are benchmarks that could be used to measure the performance of proposed systems. Moreover, as the patterns of use on the internet change, with greater prevalence of crowdsourcing of information and services, virtualisation of applications in clouds, location-aware streaming, and so on, both the technological and social requirements on provenance are shifting.

This special issue will focus on ideas to meet these challenges. Specifically, we seek original and high quality submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics. Substantially extended versions of appropriate workshop or conference papers are very welcome.

Access to online data provenance
Provenance interoperability
Distributed provenance queries
Provenance middleware
Provenance of communication
Methods, extensions of W3C PROV

Provenance of streamed data
Scalability issues in provenance
Provenance of cloud-based data
Provenance on social media
Provenance of online search
Crowdsourcing provenance

Privacy-aware provenance
Provenance and online databases
Provenance in health informatics
Provenance and Internet of Things
Compliance through provenance
Personalization of provenance

Provenance-informed trust
Provenance-aware services
Reasoning over provenance
Uncertainty and provenance
Provenance in social computing

Deadlines
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Submissions:  August 1, 2016
First decisions:  October 15, 2016
Revisions:  December 1, 2016
Final decisions:  February 1, 2017
Final manuscripts:  March 1, 2017
Publication date:  August 1, 2017

Submission
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To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on:
http://toit.acm.org/submission.html

Guest Editors
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Simon Miles, King's College London
Adriane Chapman, The MITRE Corporation
James Cheney, University of Edinburgh

Please send any queries about this call for papers to simon.miles at kcl.ac.uk

ACM TOIT Editor-in-Chief
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Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University




Dr Simon Miles
Reader in Computer Science
Department of Informatics
Kings College London, WC2R 2LS, UK
+44 (0)20 7848 1166



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