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ProvGen: Generating Synthetic PROV Graphs with Predictable Structure

Lookup NU author(s): Hugo Firth, Professor Paolo MissierORCiD

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Abstract

This paper introduces provGen, a generator aimed at producing large synthetic provenance graphs with predictable properties and of arbitrary size. Synthetic provenance graphs serve two main purposes. Firstly, they provide a variety of controlled workloads that can be used to test storage and query capabilities of provenance management systems at scale. Secondly, they provide challenging testbeds for experimenting with graph algorithms for provenance analytics, an area of increasing research interest. provGen produces PROV graphs and stores them in a graph DBMS (Neo4J). A key feature is to let users control the relationship makeup and topological features of the graph, by providing a seed provenance pattern along with a set of constraints, expressed using a custom Domain Specific Language. We also propose a simple method for evaluating the quality of the generated graphs, by measuring how realistically they simulate the structure of real-world patterns.


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Author(s): Firth H, Missier P

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes (IPAW 2014)

Year of Conference: 2015

Pages: 16-27

Online publication date: 21/03/2015

Acceptance date: 01/01/1900

ISSN: 0302-9743

Publisher: Springer

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16462-5_2

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16462-5_2

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

ISBN: 9783319164618


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