Pith Number

pith:ZXZN77PU

pith:2016:ZXZN77PUE5CSPQWBHY5CGDK5A2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Designing Workflow Systems Using Building Blocks

Andre Merzky, Manuel Maldonado, Matteo Turilli, Shantenu Jha, Vivek Balasubramanian

arxiv:1609.03484 v3 · 2016-09-12 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZXZN77PUE5CSPQWBHY5CGDK5A2}

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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	2026-05-17T23:49:06.466867Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cdf2dffdf4274527c2c13e3a230d5d069d7c6154b17cab0749852883e3e6ce62

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.03484 · arxiv_version: 1609.03484v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.03484 · pith_short_12: ZXZN77PUE5CS · pith_short_16: ZXZN77PUE5CSPQWB · pith_short_8: ZXZN77PU

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/ZXZN77PUE5CSPQWBHY5CGDK5A2 \
  | 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: cdf2dffdf4274527c2c13e3a230d5d069d7c6154b17cab0749852883e3e6ce62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "312431f3d4f7cd2c7a89450b6c6061af47bbc6bd4b94b6b53531906a83797171",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-12T17:01:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45ae37682575798a8e7e5792071dded621fc4974b98ce2fd99a57f9662a85a09"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.03484",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}