Pith Number

pith:E3CMH24I

pith:2005:E3CMH24ILRHFV2F3BUVA3WYEEW

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An Objectives-Driven Process for Selecting Methods to Support Requirements Engineering Activities

James D. Arthur, Lester Lobo

arxiv:cs/0503003 v1 · 2005-03-02 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E3CMH24ILRHFV2F3BUVA3WYEEW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:02.448849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

26c4c3eb885c4e5ae8bb0d2a0ddb0425b89cee860d85a1891a8ffecd6e5c80ef

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0503003 · arxiv_version: cs/0503003v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0503003 · pith_short_12: E3CMH24ILRHF · pith_short_16: E3CMH24ILRHFV2F3 · pith_short_8: E3CMH24I

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/E3CMH24ILRHFV2F3BUVA3WYEEW \
  | 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: 26c4c3eb885c4e5ae8bb0d2a0ddb0425b89cee860d85a1891a8ffecd6e5c80ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f4a177f831e4e8edb9c895cc33776f5ea6931c94e6a1f5aad5c45fccfbc48371",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2005-03-02T00:46:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a718cfff745b8368cc7016092f20621e474fe81455919d7bf4982d6422cf2b5c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0503003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}