Pith Number

pith:VXB6ZTR7

pith:2016:VXB6ZTR7MGGA7F3OOZMAI6W6PO

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Virtualising Process Assessments to Facilitate Continual Service Improvement in IT Service Management

Aileen Cater-Steel, Anup Shrestha, Mark Toleman

arxiv:1606.02483 v1 · 2016-06-08 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXB6ZTR7MGGA7F3OOZMAI6W6PO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:41.252946Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adc3ecce3f618c0f976e7658047ade7ba92b8e4c13888864a9d6453c020fd888

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.02483 · arxiv_version: 1606.02483v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.02483 · pith_short_12: VXB6ZTR7MGGA · pith_short_16: VXB6ZTR7MGGA7F3O · pith_short_8: VXB6ZTR7

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/VXB6ZTR7MGGA7F3OOZMAI6W6PO \
  | 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: adc3ecce3f618c0f976e7658047ade7ba92b8e4c13888864a9d6453c020fd888

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb2e65c4f7642955b37dc9fb3daa9e8b33ad7a2da4493916225b063f1d12412e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-08T10:02:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad27cc215e4ff55ac91133174514fbcaaccf7c2e53858ed955481338aff251a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.02483",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}