@article{VorstFerreinLakemeyer2006,
  author    = {Vorst, Phillip and Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {AllemaniACs3D team description},
  pages     = {1 -- 6},
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSteinbauerMcPhillipsetal.2007,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald and McPhillips, Graeme and Potgieter, Anet},
  title     = {Establishing the RoboCup Standard League in Africa - applying for the RoboCup Standard League with a German-Austrian-South African Research Project},
  pages     = {1 -- 5},
  year      = {2007},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSteinbauerMcPhillipsetal.2008,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald and McPhillips, Graeme and Potgieter, Anet},
  title     = {RoboCup Standard Platform League - Team Zadeat : an intercontinental research effort},
  pages     = {1 -- 7},
  year      = {2008},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{NiemuellerLakemeyerFerreinetal.2013,
  author    = {Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Ferrein, Alexander and Reuter, S. and Ewert, D. and Jeschke, S. and Pensky, D. and Karras, Ulrich},
  title     = {Proposal for advancements to the LLSF in 2014 and beyond},
  pages     = {Publ. online},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinMeyer2012,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Meyer, Thomas},
  title     = {A Brief Overview of Artificial Intelligence in South Africa},
  series = {AI Magazine},
  volume    = {33},
  journal   = {AI Magazine},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {AAAI},
  address   = {Menlo Park},
  issn      = {0738-4602},
  doi       = {10.1609/aimag.v33i1.2357},
  pages     = {99 -- 101},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {South Africa in recent years is the establishment of a number of research hubs involved in AI activities ranging from mobile robotics and computational intelligence, to knowledge representation and reasoning, and human language technologies. In this survey we take the reader through a quick tour of the research being conducted at these hubs, and touch on an initiative to maintain and extend the current level of interest in AI research in the country.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RensFerrein2013,
  author    = {Rens, Gavin and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Belief-node condensation for online POMDP algorithms},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address   = {New York},
  pages     = {1 -- 7},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Slightly extended version of the paper accepted at the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Workshop, a special track of IEEE AFRICON-2013, held in Mauritius, 9-12 September 2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchifferFerreinLakemeyer2012,
  author    = {Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Caesar: an intelligent domestic service robot},
  series = {Intelligent service robotics},
  volume    = {5},
  journal   = {Intelligent service robotics},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {1861-2776},
  doi       = {10.1007/s11370-012-0118-y},
  pages     = {259 -- 276},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {In this paper we present CAESAR, an intelligent domestic service robot. In domestic settings for service robots complex tasks have to be accomplished. Those tasks benefit from deliberation, from robust action execution and from flexible methods for human-robot interaction that account for qualitative notions used in natural language as well as human fallibility. Our robot CAESAR deploys AI techniques on several levels of its system architecture. On the low-level side, system modules for localization or navigation make, for instance, use of path-planning methods, heuristic search, and Bayesian filters. For face recognition and human-machine interaction, random trees and well-known methods from natural language processing are deployed. For deliberation, we use the robot programming and plan language READYLOG, which was developed for the high-level control of agents and robots; it allows combining programming the behaviour using planning to find a course of action. READYLOG is a variant of the robot programming language Golog. We extended READYLOG to be able to cope with qualitative notions of space frequently used by humans, such as "near" and "far". This facilitates human-robot interaction by bridging the gap between human natural language and the numerical values needed by the robot. Further, we use READYLOG to increase the flexible interpretation of human commands with decision-theoretic planning. We give an overview of the different methods deployed in CAESAR and show the applicability of a system equipped with these AI techniques in domestic service robotics},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinMaraisPotgieteretal.2011,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Marais, Stephen and Potgieter, Anet and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {RoboCup Junior: A vehicle for S\&T education in Africa?},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address   = {New York},
  isbn      = {978-1-61284-992-8},
  pages     = {1 -- 6},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinRensMeyeretal.2011,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Rens, Gavin and Meyer, Thomas and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {A Logic for Specifying Partially Observable Stochastic Domains / Rens, Gavin ; Meyer, Thomas ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop pn non-Monotonic Reasoning, Action and Change (NRAC`11)},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop pn non-Monotonic Reasoning, Action and Change (NRAC`11)},
  pages     = {15 -- 22},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ferrein2010,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {golog.lua: Towards a Non-Prolog Implementation of Golog for Embedded Systems},
  pages     = {20 -- 28},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}