Pith Number

pith:4ZBJGEKI

pith:2018:4ZBJGEKIGWU2MH2A6QQT3GTC43

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scout: An Experienced Guide to Find the Best Cloud Configuration

Chin-Jung Hsu, Tim Menzies, Vincent W. Freeh, Vivek Nair

arxiv:1803.01296 v1 · 2018-03-04 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4ZBJGEKIGWU2MH2A6QQT3GTC43}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:22:01.134993Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e64293114835a9a61f40f4213d9a62e6e748456376140785cd9bd239f8a22d4a

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.01296 · arxiv_version: 1803.01296v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.01296 · pith_short_12: 4ZBJGEKIGWU2 · pith_short_16: 4ZBJGEKIGWU2MH2A · pith_short_8: 4ZBJGEKI

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/4ZBJGEKIGWU2MH2A6QQT3GTC43 \
  | 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: e64293114835a9a61f40f4213d9a62e6e748456376140785cd9bd239f8a22d4a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14f24b767fec78d3a11e543f132a1f76aeedb3c43be1375794e8c862aa4cdbb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-04T04:14:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c27624429f9eb90b0aa12945147e0c0208bc7a132d1dca273784daf0364ce5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.01296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}