%0 Conference Proceedings %B Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2011 %D 2011 %T On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011. Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2011, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 17-21, 2011, Proceedings, Part II %E Robert Meersman %E Tharam S. Dillon %E Pilar Herrero %E Akhil Kumar %E Manfred Reichert %E Li Qing %E Beng Chin Ooi %E Ernesto Damiani %E Douglas C. Schmidt %E Jules White %E Manfred Hauswirth %E Pascal Hitzler %E Mukesh K. Mohania %B Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2011 %I Springer %C Hersonissos, Crete, Greece %V 7045 %G eng %0 Conference Proceedings %B Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2011 %D 2011 %T On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011. Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2011, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 17-21, 2011, Proceedings, Part I %E Robert Meersman %E Tharam S. Dillon %E Pilar Herrero %E Akhil Kumar %E Manfred Reichert %E Li Qing %E Beng Chin Ooi %E Ernesto Damiani %E Douglas C. Schmidt %E Jules White %E Manfred Hauswirth %E Pascal Hitzler %E Mukesh K. Mohania %B Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2011 %I Springer %C Hersonissos, Crete, Greece %V 7044 %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009, Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, IS, and ODBASE 2009, Proceedings, Part II %D 2009 %T Ontology-Driven Provenance Management in eScience: An Application in Parasite Research %A Satya S. Sahoo %A D. Brent Weatherly %A Raghava Mutharaju %A Pramod Anantharam %A Amit Sheth %A Rick Tarleton %E Robert Meersman %E Tharam S. Dillon %E Pilar Herrero %X

Provenance, from the French word “provenir”, describes the lineage or history of a data entity. Provenance is critical information in scientific applications to verify experiment process, validate data quality and associate trust values with scientific results. Current industrial scale eScience projects require an end-to-end provenance management infrastructure. This infrastructure needs to be underpinned by formal semantics to enable analysis of large scale provenance information by software applications. Further, effective analysis of provenance information requires well-defined query mechanisms to support complex queries over large datasets. This paper introduces an ontology-driven provenance management infrastructure for biology experiment data, as part of the Semantic Problem Solving Environment (SPSE) for Trypanosoma cruzi (T.cruzi). This provenance infrastructure, called T.cruzi Provenance Management System (PMS), is underpinned by (a) a domain-specific provenance ontology called Parasite Experiment ontology, (b) specialized query operators for provenance analysis, and (c) a provenance query engine. The query engine uses a novel optimization technique based on materialized views called materialized provenance views (MPV) to scale with increasing data size and query complexity. This comprehensive ontology-driven provenance infrastructure not only allows effective tracking and management of ongoing experiments in the Tarleton Research Group at the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD), but also enables researchers to retrieve the complete provenance information of scientific results for publication in literature.

%B On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009, Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, IS, and ODBASE 2009, Proceedings, Part II %I Springer %C Vilamoura, Portugal %V 5871 %P 992–1009 %G eng %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05151-7_18 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-05151-7_18