It is extremely difficult to track down the original source of sensitive data from a variety of
sources in the cloud during transit and processing. For instance, data provenance, which …

There is a trend that, virtually everyone, ranging from big Web companies to traditional
enterprisers to physical science researchers to social scientists, is either already …

Cloud data provenance is metadata that records the history of the creation and operations
performed on a cloud data object. Secure data provenance is crucial for data accountability …

Provenance refers to any information describing the production process of an end product,
which can be anything from a piece of digital data to a physical object. While this survey …

The growing popularity and development of data mining technologies bring serious threat to
the security of individual,'s sensitive information. An emerging research topic in data mining …

MapReduce and its variants have been highly successful in implementing large-scale data-
intensive applications on commodity clusters. However, most of these systems are built …

Ecosystem Services (ES) are an established conceptual framework for attributing value to
the benefits that nature provides to humans. As the promise of robust ES-driven …

Cloud computing has become another buzzword after Web 2.0. However, there are dozens
of different definitions for cloud computing and there seems to be no consensus on what a …

Different notions of provenance for database queries have been proposed and studied in
the past few years. In this article, we detail three main notions of database provenance …

Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining increasing popularity. Overwhelming volumes of data are
generated by IoT devices. Those data after analytics provide significant information that …