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Citing SIERRA
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If you use SIERRA and find it helpful, please cite:

.. code-block:: bibtex

   @inproceedings{Harwell2022a-SIERRA,
    author    = {Harwell, John and Lowmanstone, London and Gini, Maria},
    title     = {SIERRA: A Modular Framework for Research Automation},
    year      = {2022},
    isbn      = {9781450392136},
    publisher = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems},
    address   = {Richland, SC},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents
                 and Multiagent Systems},
    pages     = {1905--1907},
    numpages  = {3},
    keywords  = {simulation, real robots, research automation, scientific method},
    location  = {Virtual Event, New Zealand},
    series    = {AAMAS '22}
    }

To cite a specific version of SIERRA for reproducibility:

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         :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6834758

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