Pith Number

pith:ST7EBQP5

pith:2021:ST7EBQP5MDH7HHNMM4YEVDEAVH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Long-term IaaS Provider Selection using Short-term Trial Experience

Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry, Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah

arxiv:2102.12222 v1 · 2021-02-24 · cs.CR · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ST7EBQP5MDH7HHNMM4YEVDEAVH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T02:18:10.761783Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94fe40c1fd60cff39dac67304a8c80a9ee99505e3923012671548e2c74e8c8f1

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.12222 · arxiv_version: 2102.12222v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.12222 · pith_short_12: ST7EBQP5MDH7 · pith_short_16: ST7EBQP5MDH7HHNM · pith_short_8: ST7EBQP5

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/ST7EBQP5MDH7HHNMM4YEVDEAVH \
  | 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: 94fe40c1fd60cff39dac67304a8c80a9ee99505e3923012671548e2c74e8c8f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17fa52b0830b2165cfd6f3f2a8c0a01c619205d1dc70e28a4ee80b25b88a1917",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-24T11:22:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba2634cdf44b88c368bf64ff01ead26f208127936c2f8c809033ab444d41369e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.12222",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}