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Decision Trace Schema for Governance Evidence in Real-Time Risk Systems

Automated decision systems produce operational data across multiple infrastructure layers, yet no single logging format captures the complete governance-relevant record of how a decision was reached. Regulatory frameworks prescribe what must be recorded without specifying a data model for how to record it -- a gap this paper terms the Fragmented Trace Problem. Following a design science methodology, the paper presents the Decision Event Schema (DES), a JSON Schema specification that bridges four

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Published: 10 April 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (10 April 2026), “Decision Trace Schema for Governance Evidence in Real-Time Risk Systems,” evidence record 6066, https://ethics.ai/record/6066 (originally published by arXiv).

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