Pith Number

pith:EVJFWSUW

pith:2025:EVJFWSUWYO2MZ6B4Y5DCTREDUM

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Engineering RAG Systems for Real-World Applications: Design, Development, and Evaluation

Ayman Asad Khan, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Md Toufique Hasan, Mika Saari, Muhammad Waseem, Pekka Abrahamsson

arxiv:2506.20869 v3 · 2025-06-25 · cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EVJFWSUWYO2MZ6B4Y5DCTREDUM}

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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	2026-06-19T16:11:11.552642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

25525b4a96c3b4ccf83cc74629c483a32f50197081f2200b62bd0943dddb94c5

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.20869 · arxiv_version: 2506.20869v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.20869 · pith_short_12: EVJFWSUWYO2M · pith_short_16: EVJFWSUWYO2MZ6B4 · pith_short_8: EVJFWSUW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EVJFWSUWYO2MZ6B4Y5DCTREDUM \
  | 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: 25525b4a96c3b4ccf83cc74629c483a32f50197081f2200b62bd0943dddb94c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "298c049e0a8f54c7a007bc27a4bd6962f4e5648b475706763a776b8c8372ee41",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-25T22:40:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ebbcb64bb16498bb3960cb88dc5746e3252b7ab71d5e75b0e283b656689941f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.20869",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}