Pith Number

pith:OORTA4MX

pith:2016:OORTA4MX4Y6U2HQTJZPIHCDJC5

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Tuning for Software Analytics: is it Really Necessary?

Tim Menzies, Wei Fu, Xipeng Shen

arxiv:1609.01759 v1 · 2016-09-06 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OORTA4MX4Y6U2HQTJZPIHCDJC5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:53.173388Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

73a3307197e63d4d1e134e5e8388691769cc50e89e15f19da5c0087e21f15a92

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.01759 · arxiv_version: 1609.01759v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.01759 · pith_short_12: OORTA4MX4Y6U · pith_short_16: OORTA4MX4Y6U2HQT · pith_short_8: OORTA4MX

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/OORTA4MX4Y6U2HQTJZPIHCDJC5 \
  | 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: 73a3307197e63d4d1e134e5e8388691769cc50e89e15f19da5c0087e21f15a92

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c1949822aadfcae321f7ba0a65406d3be9295fcdefa1166beaebe90b69e928ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-06T20:56:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "908e61689bafcdf3349fa90a488caf920a28714cfb8494b711f7a2025ab68200"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.01759",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}