Pith Number

pith:PG6NBLNW

pith:2017:PG6NBLNWUXL7XJOYKKCTIPXQJZ

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From Pragmatic to Systematic Software Process Improvement: An Evaluated Approach

Daniel M\'endez Fern\'andez, Marco Kuhrmann

arxiv:1702.05723 v1 · 2017-02-19 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PG6NBLNWUXL7XJOYKKCTIPXQJZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:25.495383Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

79bcd0adb6a5d7fba5d85285343ef04e631fb3c6cbd704b6114df648d0d13e99

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05723 · arxiv_version: 1702.05723v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05723 · pith_short_12: PG6NBLNWUXL7 · pith_short_16: PG6NBLNWUXL7XJOY · pith_short_8: PG6NBLNW

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/PG6NBLNWUXL7XJOYKKCTIPXQJZ \
  | 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: 79bcd0adb6a5d7fba5d85285343ef04e631fb3c6cbd704b6114df648d0d13e99

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "945a1cf1997b675c1f16ff06c728d7bf590db388d961c0f56b168af23105db40",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-19T08:43:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bbf4abdcc929139c35574b0d90bcb54fa57edd6f74deb91b1ebbe88ef2424d86"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}