Abstract
This publication discloses methods and systems for addressing decision records by scope coordinates comprising discrete comparable elements that identify a contextual position within an organisational domain. In one embodiment, the scope coordinates are a structural component of the record identity rather than descriptive metadata, such that decision records at different contextual positions are structurally distinct entities even when the decision content is identical. Computable structural relationships between scope positions — including but not limited to containment, partial overlap, generalisation, adjacency, and equivalence — determine decision applicability: whether a previously sealed decision record at one contextual position can satisfy a request at a different contextual position without re-evaluation. In one embodiment, the computable structural relationships are derivable from the scope representations themselves without external configuration, administrative mapping, or runtime inference. Scope coordinates may be assembled from multiple sources using faceted classification with dependency-aware resolution via topological sort, and the system validates that all required contextual dimensions are present before evaluation proceeds, failing deterministically rather than proceeding under incomplete or ambiguous context. In one embodiment, certain contextual dimensions carry mandatory isolation semantics, preventing computable structural relationships from bridging the values of such dimensions regardless of other dimensional compatibility. The scope coordinate structure extends dimension table semantics from data warehousing and OLAP systems to structural record identity and decision applicability determination. The disclosed approaches address the gap between existing context-management techniques — which treat context as descriptive metadata for organisation and search — and structural context-based record identity with computable applicability — which makes contextual position a structural determinant of record identity and derives decision applicability from structural relationships between positions, enabling context-dependent configuration and predicate pushdown for scope-based record retrieval.
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Recommended Citation
Winchester, Jayson, "Multi-Dimensional Record Addressing for Decision Management — Contextual Position as Structural Identity", Technical Disclosure Commons, (February 19, 2026)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/9343