Pith Number

pith:N6DAWTKQ

pith:2018:N6DAWTKQEPQBSG3AUYJCLWJ3MP

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Should I Bug You? Identifying Domain Experts in Software Projects Using Code Complexity Metrics

Christoph Matthies, Philipp Giese, Ralf Teusner

arxiv:1809.07668 v1 · 2018-09-20 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N6DAWTKQEPQBSG3AUYJCLWJ3MP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:15.573205Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f860b4d5023e0191b60a61225d93b63c23dd669843c40b732edc5183cfc51ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.07668 · arxiv_version: 1809.07668v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.07668 · pith_short_12: N6DAWTKQEPQB · pith_short_16: N6DAWTKQEPQBSG3A · pith_short_8: N6DAWTKQ

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/N6DAWTKQEPQBSG3AUYJCLWJ3MP \
  | 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: 6f860b4d5023e0191b60a61225d93b63c23dd669843c40b732edc5183cfc51ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b95cf15dcae61a6249a6d7b32464f43b52f56be4d89d3048ef6aca29dc539d5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-20T15:17:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f640e0afa9f4bbde2e1df8fcfb24e72b5157d8e4122c4faeaa276af051b2f419"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.07668",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}