traces.solutions
§ Authors

Authors and
contributions

The TRACE framework is co-authored across two complementary tracks: a metrological-engineering foundation that defined the architectural decomposition, the trust-metric set, and the Computational Parsimony Ratio; and an industrial multi-domain platform that independently motivated the formalisation. Below are the formal author roles, IP notices, and the people and partners who made the three reference instances possible.

Sergii Zabolotnii

zabolotniua@gmail.com
Framework synthesis · Metrological foundation
Affiliations
  • Cherkasy State Business College, Cherkasy, Ukraine
  • State Research Institute of Armament and Military Equipment Testing and Certification, Cherkasy, Ukraine
  • Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Contributions
  • Six design principles, with explicit metrological analogues
  • Trust-metric set across L1–L4, cross-layer, and economy
  • First first-class formalisation of CPR (Computational Parsimony Ratio) in trustworthy AI
  • Mapping of TRACE to GUM / VIM / ISO/IEC 17025
  • Clinical foundational implementation (Instance A) — joint with V. Holynko, A. Antonenko
  • Judicial planned extension (Instance C)
  • Manuscript preparation — lead

Andriy Shcherban

Industrial multi-domain foundational implementation (Instance B)
Affiliations
  • Ukrainian Drilling Company (UDC), Kyiv, Ukraine
Contributions
  • Independent development of the industrial multi-domain platform (2024–2026), structurally motivating the TRACE formalisation
  • Patent pending — Ukraine application u 2025 04038, filed 19 Aug 2025
  • U.S. Copyright Office deposit, 15 Mar 2026
  • Manuscript: industrial section, review and editing
IP and licensing notice

Inclusion of Instance B as a foundational TRACE realisation does not transfer or diminish A. Shcherban's rights to the underlying methodology. Domain-specific details are the subject of a separate paper led by A. Shcherban (Paper 2).

Author contributions

CRediT-style breakdown

Roles below follow the structure used in Paper 1 (Procedia CS, iSCSi 2026). Where two names appear, both contributed to the activity; lead authors are noted parenthetically.

Conceptualisation
Zabolotnii, Shcherban
Methodology — metrological foundation
Zabolotnii
Methodology — industrial implementation
Shcherban
Investigation — Instance A (Clinical)
Zabolotnii, Holynko, Antonenko
Investigation — Instance B (Industrial)
Shcherban
Investigation — Instance C (Judicial, planned)
Zabolotnii
Cross-domain abstraction
Zabolotnii, Shcherban
Writing — original draft
Zabolotnii (lead)
Writing — review and editing
Shcherban (industrial section), Zabolotnii
Acknowledgements

People and partners

The clinical foundational implementation (Instance A) was developed jointly with V. Holynko and A. Antonenko and is described in Paper 0. The judicial extension (Instance C) operates within the modernisation of the “Legal Positions Database” portal of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, with funding from Expertise France.

V. Holynko
Clinical foundational implementation (Instance A) · co-author of Paper 0
O. Antonenko
Clinical foundational implementation (Instance A) · co-author of Paper 0
Supreme Court of Ukraine
Operational partner for Instance C — modernisation of the "Legal Positions Database" portal
Expertise France
Funding partner for Instance C
Licensing summary

The TRACE framework methodology is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). Implementation code, when published, will be released under Apache License 2.0. The industrial multi-domain platform (Instance B) carries an independent IP status — see the notice in A. Shcherban’s author card above.