Pith Number

pith:GVRNKLYE

pith:2018:GVRNKLYEKSYOQHNP2SGMSBRLWH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Structured Information Retrieval Strategies for Localising Software Changes

Bashar Nuseibeh, Dawei Song, Qiuchi Li, Yijun Yu

arxiv:1811.12669 v4 · 2018-11-30 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GVRNKLYEKSYOQHNP2SGMSBRLWH}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:30.077341Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3562d52f0454b0e81dafd48cc9062bb1c9b86a9267da8ce88a9602e5c6d79d47

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.12669 · arxiv_version: 1811.12669v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.12669 · pith_short_12: GVRNKLYEKSYO · pith_short_16: GVRNKLYEKSYOQHNP · pith_short_8: GVRNKLYE

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/GVRNKLYEKSYOQHNP2SGMSBRLWH \
  | 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: 3562d52f0454b0e81dafd48cc9062bb1c9b86a9267da8ce88a9602e5c6d79d47

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17dcec31374b12b87d807d7b5eeb1d267a5de011b9d7cc017b9186aee8ec916d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-30T08:32:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a2ca3059447e849930acff1b37ea5aa16c7c92dfa81febeffdc214163044ff5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.12669",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}