Pith Number

pith:XIZFPPD7

pith:2018:XIZFPPD7FQYOEFMJPB5W4MSJNQ

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Controlling Swarms: A Programming Paradigm with Minimalistic Communication

Franz Wotawa, Hannes Hornischer, Joshua Cherian Varughese, Payam Zahadat, Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl

arxiv:1804.04202 v2 · 2018-04-11 · cs.MA

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\pithnumber{XIZFPPD7FQYOEFMJPB5W4MSJNQ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:13:04.249209Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba3257bc7f2c30e21589787b6e32496c21930a0c0bb2e2d33e57c1573b9a9e20

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.04202 · arxiv_version: 1804.04202v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.04202 · pith_short_12: XIZFPPD7FQYO · pith_short_16: XIZFPPD7FQYOEFMJ · pith_short_8: XIZFPPD7

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XIZFPPD7FQYOEFMJPB5W4MSJNQ \
  | 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: ba3257bc7f2c30e21589787b6e32496c21930a0c0bb2e2d33e57c1573b9a9e20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2ccb5b3c170892ddb24e1cc2b51950703b9f00721532c61145b9e2ad0d600b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-11T20:14:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ce0ea7fd1b217089013dd0105718972bb939ddda5fc5d82c51efdfce1589441"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.04202",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}