1.8 Citations

If you find Stage and Player useful in your work, we would greatly appreciate your mentioning that fact in papers that you publish. We have presented papers on Player in peer-reviewed conferences; the following papers are the definitive references when citing Stage and Player: [3,2,1]:

• Richard T. Vaughan, Brian P. Gerkey, and Andrew Howard.
  On device abstractions for portable, reusable robot code.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 2121-2427, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2003.
• Brian P. Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan, and Andrew Howard.
  The Player/Stage Project: Tools for Multi-Robot and Distributed Sensor Systems.
  In Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pages 317-323, Coimbra, Portugal, July 2003.
• Brian P. Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Andrew Howard, Maja J Mataric and Gaurav S Sukhatme.
  Most Valuable Player: A Robot Device Server for Distributed Control.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 1226-1231, Wailea, Hawaii, October 2001.

If you have space (and are feeling generous), you can also insert a footnote similar to the following:

Stage and Player are freely available under the GNU General Public License from http://playerstage.sourceforge.net.

By including such acknowledgements, you do more than feed our egos and further our careers. You spread the word about the Player/Stage project, which will bring more users and developers, as well as please our funders, ensuring that we will continue hacking on the software.