The Probabilistic Provenance Graph

Abstract

Previous provenance models have assumed that there is complete certainty in the provenance relationships. But what if this assumption does not hold? In this work, emaiwe propose a probabilistic provenance graph (PPG) model to characterize scenarios where provenance relationships are uncertain. We describe two motivating examples. The first example demonstrates the uncertainty associated with the provenance of an email. The second example demonstrates and characterizes the uncertainty associated with the provenance of statements in documents.