Bulletin of the Technical Committee on

Data Engineering

December 2007 ... Vol. 30 No. 4 ………………………………………………… IEEE Computer Society

Letters
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ............................................................................................................................... David Lomet ___1
Letter from the Special Issue Editor ............................................................................................ Peter Buneman and Dan Suciu___2

Special Issue on Data Provenance

Provenance in Databases: Past, Current, and Future ...........................................................................................Wang-Chiew Tan__3
Provenance and Data Synchronization ................................................................J. Nathan Foster and Grigoris Karvounarakis__13
Program Slicing and Data Provenance ...................................................................................................................James Cheney__22
Recording Provenance for SQL Queries and Updates ....................................................Stijn Vansummeren and James Cheney__29
Issues in Building Practical Provenance Systems ...................................................................Adriane Chapman, H.V. Jagadish__38
Provenance in Scientific Workflow Systems ...............................................................Susan Davidson, Sarah Cohen-Boulakia,
...........................Anat Eyal, Bertram Ludascher, Timothy McPhillips, Shawn Bowers, Manish Kumar Anand, Juliana Freire__44
Copyright and Provenance: Some Practical Problems ............................................................................John Mark Ockerbloom__51

Conference and Journal Notices
ICDE 2008 Conference ......................................................................................................................................................backcover