Pith Number

pith:NBJKD2YQ

pith:2004:NBJKD2YQ2UAAOD6V2O6JWGPM5I

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Protocol Requirements for Self-organizing Artifacts: Towards an Ambient Intelligence

Carlos Gershenson, Francis Heylighen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

arxiv:nlin/0404004 v2 · 2004-04-01 · nlin.AO · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NBJKD2YQ2UAAOD6V2O6JWGPM5I}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T03:28:56.623707Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6852a1eb10d500070fd5d3bc9b19ecea24d776656c83db3f15dacd633a6bc8db

Aliases

arxiv: nlin/0404004 · arxiv_version: nlin/0404004v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.nlin/0404004 · pith_short_12: NBJKD2YQ2UAA · pith_short_16: NBJKD2YQ2UAAOD6V · pith_short_8: NBJKD2YQ

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/NBJKD2YQ2UAAOD6V2O6JWGPM5I \
  | 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: 6852a1eb10d500070fd5d3bc9b19ecea24d776656c83db3f15dacd633a6bc8db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b36eec948a4543c9e8003353fe309305c8ee2952debf78a1041a3ca3d120bc9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.AO",
    "submitted_at": "2004-04-01T16:14:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9bc220c67107821a2fd51b8c712178603a11d96fa6baaa10067ef013615a099"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "nlin/0404004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}