Keeping track of the lineage of data (provenance) enables many cool applications; ranging from identifying malware outbreaks to recomputing workflows efficientl

Keeping track of the lineage of data (provenance) enables many cool applications; ranging from identifying malware outbreaks to recomputing workflows efficiently. A range of papers on provenance (along with some code) are available here: http://spade.csl.sri.com/SPADE/Papers/Papers.html http://spade.csl.sri.com/SPADE/Papers/Papers.html Disclaimer: I work at SRI, and have worked briefly on SPADE in the past.