@InProceedings{sim03:_iros,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Effective Exploration Strategies for the Construction of Visual Maps},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots
                  and Systems (IROS)},
  pages =	 {8},
  year =	 2003,
  address =	 {Las Vegas, NV},
  month =	 {October},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/sim_iros03.pdf",
}

@TechReport{sim03:_wamltr,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Self-Organizing Visual Maps},
  institution =	 {Mobile Robotics Lab, McGill University},
  number =	 {MRL-03-01},
  address =	 {Montreal, QC},
  month =	 {October},
  year =	 2003,
  pages =	 {16},
  url =
                  "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/sim_waml_tr.pdf"
}


@InProceedings{Rekleitis2001a,
  author =	 {I. Rekleitis and R. Sim and G. Dudek and
                  E. Milios},
  title =	 {Collaborative Exploration for Map Construction},
  booktitle =	 {2001 IEEE International Symposium on Computational
                  Intelligence in Robotics and Automation},
  year =	 2001,
  pages =	 {296--301},
  month =	 {July},
address="Banff, AB",
  url =		 "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/cira01.ps.gz"
}

@InProceedings{Rekleitis2001b,
  author =	 {I. Rekleitis and R. Sim and G. Dudek and
                  E. Milios},
  title =	 {Collaborative Exploration for the Construction of Visual
                  Maps},
  booktitle =	 {2001 IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
                  (IROS)},
  year =	 2001,
  month =	 {October},
  address =	 "Hawaii",
  pages =	 {1269--1274},
  url =		 "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/iros01.ps.gz"
}

@Article{Sim01Journal,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning environmental features for pose estimation},
  journal =	 {Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier Press},
  year =	 2001,
  volume =	 19,
  number =	 11,
  pages =	 {733--739}
}

@InProceedings{bolduc97:_auton_explor,
  author =	 {Marc Bolduc and Eric Bourque and G. Dudek and Nicholas
                  Roy and R. Sim},
  title =	 {Autonomous Exploration: An integrated Systems Approach},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the AAAI National Conference on Artificial
                  Intelligence},
  pages =	 {779--780},
  year =	 1997,
  month =	 {July},
  publisher =	 {MIT Press}
}

@InProceedings{dudek03:_robod,
  author =	 {G. Dudek and R. Sim},
  title =	 {RoboDaemon - A device independent, network-oriented, modular
                  mobile robot controller},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
                  and Automation},
  year =	 2003,
  address =	 {Taipei, Taiwan},
  month =	 {May},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  pages = 7
}

@Article{rekleitis02:_collab_ra,
  author =	 {I. Rekleitis and R. Sim and G. Dudek and
                  E. Milios},
  title =	 {Collaborative Exploration for Visual Map Construction},
  journal =	 {IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation},
  year =	 2002,
  note =	 {In submission}
}

@InProceedings{sim00:_aaai,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning Landmarks for Robot Localization},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium},
  pages =	 {1110--1111},
  year =	 2000,
  address =	 {Austin, TX},
  month =	 {July},
  organization = {SIGART/AAAI},
  publisher =	 {AAAI Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/aaai00.ps.gz",
}

@Unpublished{sim00:_proposal,
  author =	 {R. Sim},
  title =	 {To Boldly Go: Bayesian Exploration for Mobile Robots},
  note =	 {Ph.D. Proposal},
  month =	 {June},
  year =	 2000,
  url =
                  "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/sim_proposal.ps.gz"
}

@TechReport{sim00:_techrep,
  author =	 {R. Sim},
  title =	 {Bayesian Exploration for Mobile Robots},
  institution =	 {Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University},
  number =	 {CIM-03-02},
  address =	 {Montreal, QC},
  month =	 {June},
  year =	 2000,
  pages =	 {23},
  url =
                  "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/sim_bayes_expl00.pdf"
}

@TechReport{sim01:_techrep,
  author =	 {R. Sim and S. Polifroni and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Comparing Attention Operators for Learning Landmarks},
  institution =	 {Mobile Robotics Lab, McGill University},
  number =	 {MRL-03-02},
  address =	 {Montreal, QC},
  month =	 {October},
  year =	 2001,
  pages =	 {16},
  url =
                  "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/sim_polifroni_comparing.pdf"
}

@InProceedings{sim01:_cvpr,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning Generative Models of Scene Features},
  booktitle =	 {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year =	 2001,
  pages =	 {406--412},
  address =	 {Hawaii},
  month =	 {December},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/cvpr01.ps.gz",
}

@InProceedings{sim03:_rur,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Examining Exploratory Trajectories for Minimizing Map Uncertainty},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the International Joint Conference
                  on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics (RUR)},
  year =	 2003,
  address =	 {Acapulco, Mexico},
  month =	 {August},
  publisher =	 {Morgan Kaufmann},
  pages =	 {69--76}
}


@InProceedings{sim03:_compar,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Comparing image-based localization methods},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference
                  on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},
  year =	 2003,
  address =	 {Acapulco, Mexico},
  month =	 {August},
  publisher =	 {Morgan Kaufmann},
  pages =	 {1560--1562}
}

@Article{sim03:_ijcv,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning Generative Models of Scene Features},
  journal =	 {International Journal of Computer Vision},
  year =	 2003,
  volume =	 {},
  number =	 {},
  pages =	 {},
  note =	 {In submission}
}

@InProceedings{sim03:_iris,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {On Visual Maps and their Automatic Construction},
  booktitle =	 {Precarn/IRIS Proceedings},
  year =	 2003,
  pages =	 {1},
  month =	 {June}
}


@InProceedings{sim97:_iris,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Navigating by the Stars: A landmark-based method for Mobile
                  Robot Localization},
  booktitle =	 {Precarn/IRIS Proceedings},
  year =	 1997,
  pages =	 {1},
  month =	 {June}
}

@InProceedings{sim98:_iris,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Position Estimation from Learned Landmarks},
  booktitle =	 {Precarn/IRIS Proceedings},
  year =	 1998,
  pages =	 {1},
  month =	 {June}
}

@InProceedings{sim98:_mobil,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Mobile Robot Localization from Learned Landmarks},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots
                  and Systems (IROS)},
  pages =	 {1060--1065},
  year =	 1998,
  address =	 {Victoria, Canada},
  month =	 {October},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/iros98.ps.gz",
}

@TechReport{sim98:_techrep,
  author =	 {R. Sim},
  title =	 {Mobile Robot Localization from Learned Landmarks},
  institution =	 {Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University},
  year =	 1998,
  number =	 {CIM-98-03},
  address =	 {Montreal, QC},
  pages =	 {66 pages},
  url =		 "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/mobile-tr.ps.gz"
}

@MastersThesis{sim98:_thesis,
  author =	 {R. Sim},
  title =	 {Mobile Robot Localization from Learned Landmarks},
  school =	 {McGill University},
  year =	 1998,
  address =	 {Montreal, Canada},
  month =	 {July}
}

@InProceedings{sim99:_iccv,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning and Evaluating Visual Features for Pose Estimation},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on
                  Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  year =	 1999,
  pages =	 {1217--1222},
  address =	 {Kerkyra, Greece},
  month =	 {Sept},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/iccv99.ps.gz",
}

@InProceedings{sim99:_mobil,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning Visual Landmarks for Pose Estimation},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
                  and Automation (ICRA)},
  year =	 1999,
  pages =	 {1972--1978},
  address =	 {Detroit, MI},
  month =	 {May},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/icra99.ps.gz",
}

@Article{sim99:_visual_landm,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Visual Landmarks for Pose Estimation},
  journal =	 {Canadian Artificial Intelligence},
  year =	 1999,
  number =	 43,
  pages =	 {13--17},
  month =	 {Spring}
}


@InProceedings{sim99:_wpma,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning Environmental Features for Pose Estimation},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Perception for Mobile
                  Agents},
  year =	 1999,
  address =	 {Ft. Collins, CO},
  month =	 {June},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~simra/publications/workshop.ps.gz",
  pages =	 {7--14}
}


