Capturing and Reporting Provenance Information of Simulation Studies Based on an Artifact-Based Workflow Approach

Ruscheinski, Andreas and Wilsdorf, Pia and Dombrowsky, Marcus and Uhrmacher, Adelinde M. (2019) Capturing and Reporting Provenance Information of Simulation Studies Based on an Artifact-Based Workflow Approach. In: ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS 2019), 03-05 Jun 2019, Chicago, IL, USA. Proceedings, published by ACM, New York, USA, pp. 185-196.

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Abstract

Provenance comprises information about how a product has been generated in a process. Thus, provenance information about an entire simulation study would support the interpretation and reuse of the developed simulation model and simulation experiments. However, current approaches only support to capture parts of the provenance information of a simulation study, i.e., the provenance information of the simulation data generated by individual simulation experiments. In this work, we extend a declarative, artifact-based workflow to capture provenance information about an entire simulation by observing the user in the study process. The workflow relates the building processes of central products of a simulation study, such as the conceptual model, requirements, input data, simulation model, and simulation experiments. Additionally, the workflow guides the modeler through the simulation study process while ensuring the consistency between its products. Further, we also develop different strategies to report the captured provenance information. These enable the user to respectively understand the simulation study at different levels of abstractions.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information: DOI: 10.1145/3316480.3325514
Projects: GrEASE

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