Pith Number

pith:6JXB6GJG

pith:2012:6JXB6GJGV373OJXMMFSZMFAXCH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interactive Ant Colony Optimisation (iACO) for Early Lifecycle Software Design

Christopher L. Simons, Jim Smith, Paul White

arxiv:1212.5461 v2 · 2012-12-21 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6JXB6GJGV373OJXMMFSZMFAXCH}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:49:18.457148Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f26e1f1926aeffb726ec616596141711d3256e612fb55f0863f67fc340f2640a

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.5461 · arxiv_version: 1212.5461v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.5461 · pith_short_12: 6JXB6GJGV373 · pith_short_16: 6JXB6GJGV373OJXM · pith_short_8: 6JXB6GJG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6JXB6GJGV373OJXMMFSZMFAXCH \
  | 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: f26e1f1926aeffb726ec616596141711d3256e612fb55f0863f67fc340f2640a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1fbf9d209e70be6fe2ac9a86c4e0d85847903fe66f4ded697f94f2d56d13cc05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-21T14:31:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6de9121978783e64d36e9541ecd33826b5ab1a44d29a0ac417a4c219d8e9893d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.5461",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}