A Data Provenance Model for Collaboration Design Process

Data provenance is the basic metadata for process analysis in process aware system and plays an important role in collaboration design process for process auditing and process improvement, but data collaboration and iterative processin theexecutionof collaboration design process impede the integrity of provenance tracking based on data provenance. This paper proposes a collaborative design provenance model based on OPM, which can support provenance tracking in the execution of multiple related collaboration design processes. In this model, it descripts the basic characteristic of the execution of collaboration design process, supports the description of iterative process by execution path expansion, and supports the descriptions of different data collaboration patternsbetween different design processes. Based on this model, we finally provide the global data provenance directed graph by the mechanism of data provenance sharing and combination that can insure the integrity of provenance tracking of collaboration design process.