his report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 16271 "Algorithmic Foundations of Programmable Matter", a new and emerging field that combines theoretical work on algorithms with a wide spectrum of practical applications that reach all the way from small-scale embedded systems to cyber-physical structures at nano-scale. The aim of the Dagstuhl seminar was to bring together researchers from the algorithms community with selected experts from robotics and distributed systems in order to set a solid base for the development of models, technical solutions, and algorithms that can control programmable matter. Both communities benefited from such a meeting for the following reasons: - Meeting experts from other fields provided additional insights, challenges and focus when considering work on programmable matter. - Interacting with colleagues in a close and social manner gave many starting points for continuing collaboration. - Getting together in a strong, large and enthusiastic group provided the opportunity to plan a number of followup activities. In the following, we provide details and activities of this successful week.
@Article{fekete_et_al:DagRep.6.7.1, author = {Fekete, S\'{a}ndor and Richa, Andr\'{e}a W. and R\"{o}mer, Kay and Scheideler, Christian}, title = {{Algorithmic Foundations of Programmable Matter (Dagstuhl Seminar 16271)}}, pages = {1--14}, journal = {Dagstuhl Reports}, ISSN = {2192-5283}, year = {2016}, volume = {6}, number = {7}, editor = {Fekete, S\'{a}ndor and Richa, Andr\'{e}a W. and R\"{o}mer, Kay and Scheideler, Christian}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.6.7.1}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67599}, doi = {10.4230/DagRep.6.7.1}, annote = {Keywords: distributed algorithms, distributed systems, programmable matter, robotics, self-organization} }
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