Pith Number

pith:NPS6TGVT

pith:2012:NPS6TGVTYRMKZA5QHZUATWPO3T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A common interface for multi-rule-engine distributed systems

Bartosz Kwolek, Krzysztof Zielinski, Pierre de Leusse

arxiv:1203.0435 v1 · 2012-03-02 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NPS6TGVTYRMKZA5QHZUATWPO3T}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:01:00.781406Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6be5e99ab3c458ac83b03e6809d9eedcc713ceca5d3f47d98f827b0330688e4f

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.0435 · arxiv_version: 1203.0435v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.0435 · pith_short_12: NPS6TGVTYRMK · pith_short_16: NPS6TGVTYRMKZA5Q · pith_short_8: NPS6TGVT

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/NPS6TGVTYRMKZA5QHZUATWPO3T \
  | 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: 6be5e99ab3c458ac83b03e6809d9eedcc713ceca5d3f47d98f827b0330688e4f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "afd0d2559a2cd07d4d1c5ce834f3a2c7127acfa6a718cd4720a35fddac50ef71",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-02T12:07:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43f5b18de05fe6cf96fa6f05e67351ddc4024e7f788aad9da0432a1ecd2fb9ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.0435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}