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SPADE: Support for Provenance Auditing in Distributed Environments

Primary LanguageJavaGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Getting Started

Please refer to SPADE's documentation to learn how to use it to collect, filter, store, and query your provenance metadata.

To learn more about SPADE, please see:

  • Ashish Gehani and Dawood Tariq, SPADE: Support for Provenance Auditing in Distributed Environments, 13th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware, 2012. [PDF]
  • Ashish Gehani, Hasanat Kazmi, and Hassaan Irshad, Scaling SPADE to "Big Provenance", 8th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP), 2016. [PDF]
  • Ashish Gehani, Raza Ahmad, Hassaan Irshad, Jianqiao Zhu, and Jignesh Patel, Digging Into "Big Provenance" (With SPADE), ACM Queue, Vol. 19(3), 2021. [PDF]

Please see the lists of people and publications associated with the project for further information.


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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants OCI-0722068, IIS-1116414, and ACI-1547467. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.