Pith Number

pith:MEB4IEAE

pith:2017:MEB4IEAEYWEPTL5W6RYCE7XZWQ

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Cost Adaptation for Robust Decentralized Swarm Behaviour

David Meger, Mark Coates, Matthew Vertescher, Peter Henderson

arxiv:1709.07114 v2 · 2017-09-21 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MEB4IEAEYWEPTL5W6RYCE7XZWQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:32.377217Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6103c41004c588f9afb6f470227ef9b4324d6724aff6b971f5ed0b9089bdbfb9

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.07114 · arxiv_version: 1709.07114v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.07114 · pith_short_12: MEB4IEAEYWEP · pith_short_16: MEB4IEAEYWEPTL5W · pith_short_8: MEB4IEAE

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/MEB4IEAEYWEPTL5W6RYCE7XZWQ \
  | 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: 6103c41004c588f9afb6f470227ef9b4324d6724aff6b971f5ed0b9089bdbfb9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "087a2d32485cbda22426e5f5fc4c6f12c520df68603c69b957f9c2b8d0840741",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-21T00:50:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "111d0f1b5484cc1ba7033a4eb80c75401fd15eab82e381ed161a76f7dd9edf5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.07114",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}