Pith Number

pith:3VKGUGHV

pith:1996:3VKGUGHV5SSD4TQA5GTRUQRS2D

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2Planning for Contingencies: A Decision-based Approach

G. Collins, L. Pryor

arxiv:cs/9605106 v1 · 1996-05-01 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3VKGUGHV5SSD4TQA5GTRUQRS2D}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:37:36.678252Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd546a18f5eca43e4e00e9a71a4232d0cc0a3a09d30bc68f636c92587d494146

Aliases

arxiv: cs/9605106 · arxiv_version: cs/9605106v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/9605106 · pith_short_12: 3VKGUGHV5SSD · pith_short_16: 3VKGUGHV5SSD4TQA · pith_short_8: 3VKGUGHV

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3VKGUGHV5SSD4TQA5GTRUQRS2D \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: dd546a18f5eca43e4e00e9a71a4232d0cc0a3a09d30bc68f636c92587d494146

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d439392cef7792e1ac21cebc12bc6130bb78db93c6920874cfb8c0bad40787df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "1996-05-01T00:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d953e7a1f1cae6b704bb2235253377517de60eb9e2480d71ab1e1ecaf7fb5573"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/9605106",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}