Pith Number

pith:QAM3TFFW

pith:2017:QAM3TFFWVZJNW4S3IC7YK53EQT

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Provably Efficient Algorithms for Joint Placement and Allocation of Virtual Network Functions

Bo Ji, Gagan R. Gupta, Lin Ye, Xiaojiang Du, Yu Sang

arxiv:1702.01154 v1 · 2017-02-03 · cs.NI

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\pithnumber{QAM3TFFWVZJNW4S3IC7YK53EQT}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:51:24.402761Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8019b994b6ae52db725b40bf85776484f08bf97330940b5a49bd262881476fa9

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.01154 · arxiv_version: 1702.01154v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.01154 · pith_short_12: QAM3TFFWVZJN · pith_short_16: QAM3TFFWVZJNW4S3 · pith_short_8: QAM3TFFW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QAM3TFFWVZJNW4S3IC7YK53EQT \
  | 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: 8019b994b6ae52db725b40bf85776484f08bf97330940b5a49bd262881476fa9

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-03T20:49:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ebe4118b2d984187ada5dc1be51baeeab4ba810c4e880f01ba755450eeea7cd"
  },
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  }
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