Pith Number

pith:UX4IVYB4

pith:2015:UX4IVYB4IY3UFNXZJRGWMB2NEN

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Measuring and Managing Answer Quality for Online Data-Intensive Services

Christopher Stewart, Devesh Tiwari, Jaimie Kelley, Nathaniel Morris, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He

arxiv:1506.05172 v1 · 2015-06-17 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UX4IVYB4IY3UFNXZJRGWMB2NEN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:46:12.868509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5f88ae03c463742b6f94c4d66074d2355cf3d956e7c8007002ed2c4d64963c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.05172 · arxiv_version: 1506.05172v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.05172 · pith_short_12: UX4IVYB4IY3U · pith_short_16: UX4IVYB4IY3UFNXZ · pith_short_8: UX4IVYB4

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/UX4IVYB4IY3UFNXZJRGWMB2NEN \
  | 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: a5f88ae03c463742b6f94c4d66074d2355cf3d956e7c8007002ed2c4d64963c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6231fa228da7677986483d933797a97d8450b42665d61db4f87462c325e8bcc7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-17T00:04:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96cf0ab765aff4477775cce4e24ecbc012a2dfdf004a3ac4b727ee94a15e69f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.05172",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}