ContextContinuityLayer.org — Citations

Dey, A. K. (2001). Understanding and using context. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 5(1), 4–7.

Defines context operationally and formalizes 'context-aware' usage patterns; a primary anchor for definitions.

Schilit, B., Adams, N., & Want, R. (1994). Context-aware computing applications. Proceedings of WMCSA.

Early taxonomy of context-aware application behaviors; useful historical grounding.

Endsley, M. R. (1995). Toward a theory of situation awareness in dynamic systems. Human Factors, 37(1), 32–64.

Perception–comprehension–projection model; links context completeness to decision quality.

Strang, T., & Linnhoff-Popien, C. (2004). A context modeling survey. Proceedings of UbiComp.

Survey of context modeling approaches; helps structure a context-layer taxonomy.

Abowd, G. D., Dey, A. K., Brown, P. J., Davies, N., Smith, M., & Steggles, P. (1999). Towards a better understanding of context and context-awareness. Proceedings of HUC '99.

Early conceptual clarification of context and context-aware behavior in ubiquitous computing.

Fielding, R. T. (2000). Architectural styles and the design of network-based software architectures (Doctoral dissertation, UC Irvine).

Canonical REST source; explains stateless constraints and architectural tradeoffs central to continuity discussions.

Eugster, P. T., Felber, P. A., Guerraoui, R., & Kermarrec, A.-M. (2003). The many faces of publish/subscribe. ACM Computing Surveys, 35(2), 114–131.

Survey of pub/sub decoupling; foundational for event-driven context propagation.

Kleppmann, M. (2017). Designing data-intensive applications. O'Reilly Media.

Practical distributed systems reference for state, consistency, replication, and logs—useful for context persistence.

Gray, J., & Reuter, A. (1992). Transaction processing: Concepts and techniques. Morgan Kaufmann.

Classic transactions/ACID reference for continuity and correctness under concurrency.

Bernstein, P. A., & Newcomer, E. (2009). Principles of transaction processing (2nd ed.). Morgan Kaufmann.

Modernized transaction foundations; maps to 'transactional context' and lifecycle.

Moreau, L., et al. (2013). The PROV data model. W3C Recommendation.

Standard model for provenance; supports auditability and contextual traceability.

NIST. (2006). Guide to computer security log management (SP 800-92).

Operational audit/log management guidance—supports transparency and accountability claims.

Hardt, D. (2012). The OAuth 2.0 authorization framework (RFC 6749).

Defines authorization delegation; useful to show what identity protocols cover (and don't).

Sakimura, N., et al. (2014). OpenID Connect Core 1.0. OpenID Foundation.

Defines OIDC authentication/claims layer on OAuth; supports 'SSO limits' framing.

World Wide Web Consortium. (2022). Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0. W3C Recommendation.

Decentralized identifier standard; useful for 'distributed identity models.'

World Wide Web Consortium. (2022). Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1.1. W3C Recommendation.

Standard data model for portable claims; supports 'identity artifacts ≠ full context.'

NIST. (2017). Digital Identity Guidelines (SP 800-63-3). (Withdrawn Aug 1, 2025; superseded by SP 800-63-4).

High-authority identity assurance framework; include as historical baseline and note supersession.

Dragoni, N., et al. (2017). Microservices: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In Present and Ulterior Software Engineering. Springer.

Survey of microservices and their tradeoffs; supports fragmentation across tool ecosystems.

Newman, S. (2015). Building microservices. O'Reilly Media.

Practical service decomposition reference; highlights integration/state challenges that drive context fragmentation.

Lamport, L. (1978). Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system. Communications of the ACM, 21(7), 558–565.

Foundational for temporal context and causality in distributed logs/events.

Kreps, J., Narkhede, N., & Rao, J. (2011). Kafka: A distributed messaging system for log processing. NetDB.

Log-based event streaming; important practical substrate for context propagation.

Nissenbaum, H. (2004). Privacy as contextual integrity. Washington Law Review, 79(1), 119–158.

Foundational privacy theory framing appropriate information flows by context-specific norms.

Barth, A., Datta, A., Mitchell, J. C., & Nissenbaum, H. (2006). Privacy and contextual integrity: Framework and applications. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

Bridges contextual integrity into formal/security applications; useful for governance engineering.

European Union. (2016). Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).

Legal basis for minimization, purpose limitation, transparency, and portability (e.g., Art. 5, 20).

OECD. (2013). The OECD privacy framework. OECD Publishing.

Widely cited policy principles that parallel minimization/purpose limitation; useful cross-jurisdiction anchor.

ISO. (2022). ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Information security management systems — Requirements.

Core ISMS requirements; supports governance controls, auditability, and risk management.

NIST. (2023). AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0).

Operational framework for AI risk; maps to governance and accountability for context-using systems.

ISO. (2023). ISO/IEC 23894:2023 Artificial intelligence — Risk management.

Risk management standard for AI; supports structured governance beyond privacy law.

Sandhu, R. S., Coyne, E. J., Feinstein, H. L., & Youman, C. E. (1996). Role-based access control models. Computer, 29(2), 38–47.

Formal access control; useful for 'permissioned context usage' implementation patterns.

Zuboff, S. (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism. PublicAffairs.

Socio-technical governance framing; supports ethical risk discussions around context capture and misuse.

European Commission. (2024). Artificial Intelligence Act (final text as adopted).

EU AI governance backdrop; supports regulatory alignment claims for AI-integrated infrastructures.

Vaswani, A., et al. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30.

Transformer architecture; context window and attention underpin modern LLM context handling.

Bahdanau, D., Cho, K., & Bengio, Y. (2015). Neural machine translation by jointly learning to align and translate. ICLR.

Introduced attention for seq2seq; often cited as precursor to transformer attention.

Lewis, P., et al. (2020). Retrieval-augmented generation for knowledge-intensive NLP tasks. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 33.

Formalizes RAG; central to 'structured context injection' strategies.

Karpukhin, V., et al. (2020). Dense passage retrieval for open-domain question answering. EMNLP 2020.

DPR retriever backbone for RAG systems; supports 'context sourcing' pipeline.

Guu, K., et al. (2020). REALM: Retrieval-augmented language model pre-training. ICML 2020.

Retrieval-augmented pretraining; links memory/retrieval to context continuity.

Izacard, G., & Grave, E. (2021). Leveraging passage retrieval with generative models for open domain question answering. EACL 2021.

Fusion-in-Decoder style retrieval+generation; demonstrates scaling context via retrieved passages.

Graves, A., Wayne, G., & Danihelka, I. (2014). Neural Turing machines. arXiv:1410.5401.

Classic external-memory architecture; foundational for 'memory layer' framing in AI agents.

Weston, J., Chopra, S., & Bordes, A. (2014). Memory networks. arXiv:1410.3916.

Introduces memory networks; links reasoning to stored context.

Sukhbaatar, S., Weston, J., Fergus, R., et al. (2015). End-to-end memory networks. arXiv:1503.08895.

End-to-end differentiable memory; further supports long-range context handling.

Gama, J., et al. (2014). A survey on concept drift adaptation. ACM Computing Surveys, 46(4), Article 44.

Survey of drift detection/adaptation; supports 'context drift' and lifecycle risk discussions.

Yao, S., et al. (2023). ReAct: Synergizing reasoning and acting in language models. arXiv:2210.03629.

Agent pattern combining reasoning traces with tool actions; relevant to context scaffolding.

Shinn, N., & Labash, B. (2023). Reflexion: Language agents with verbal reinforcement learning. arXiv:2303.11366.

Iterative self-reflection for agents; ties to maintaining and correcting context over time.

Wei, J., et al. (2022). Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models. arXiv:2201.11903.

Reasoning scaffolds; relevant to 'multi-step context injection' and structured prompts.

Health Level Seven International. (2019). FHIR Release 4 (v4.0.1). HL7.

Core interoperability standard enabling clinical data exchange and partial context portability.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (1996). Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Baseline privacy/security requirements in US healthcare; constrains 'permissioned context usage.'

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. (2017). Basel III: Finalising post-crisis reforms.

Global banking capital/risk framework; relevant to contextual risk exposure and audit trails.

PCI Security Standards Council. (2022). PCI DSS v4.0.

Payment card security standard; maps to transaction context controls and auditability.

U.S. General Services Administration. (2020). Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) security assessment framework.

US government cloud authorization baseline; relevant for GovTech 'context governance' controls.

IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive. (2026). Report 2026/1109.

Establishes that prevailing industry crypto-shredding claims are vendor assertions rather than formal security reductions — no published reduction from 'key destroyed' to 'data computationally inaccessible' existed across surveyed implementations at time of writing. Underpins STACCR's 'verifiable, not promised' framing in the value-proposition section.