A Network-based Approach to Capture Provenance of a Policy-making Process

Abstract

A policy-making process entails large sources of data for its creation, the tracking of which can provide a significant insight into a process and data that was being employed for its creation. However, a process employed for creating policies varies with each policy case due to different nature and requirements of policies. Therefore, a flexible approach is required to capture process details of different policies. Thus a novel autonomous provenance capturing technique has been introduced that is inspired from IP packet switching networking concepts. This novel technique is used with a model-driven approach to enable flexibility in a system. It is expected that this new technique will be able to systematically capture provenance in a dynamic sociotechnical environments.