Abstract. We give an overview of VisTrails, a system that provides an infrastructure for systematically capturing detailed provenance and streamlining the data exploration process. A key feature that sets VisTrails apart from previous visualization and scientific workflow systems is a novel action-based mechanism that uniformly captures provenance for data products and workflows used to generate these products. This mechanism not only ensures reproducibility of results, but it also simplifies data exploration by allowing scientists to easily navigate through the space of workflows and parameter settings for an exploration task.
VisTrails, a provenance and data exploration system, provides an infrastructure for systematically capturing provenance related to the evolution of a workflow REF .
Managing rapidly-evolving scientific workflows
In International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW), LNCS 4145
Computer Science