@InProceedings{cannon_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.54, author = {Cannon, Sarah and Daymude, Joshua J. and G\"{o}kmen, Cem and Randall, Dana and Richa, Andr\'{e}a W.}, title = {{A Local Stochastic Algorithm for Separation in Heterogeneous Self-Organizing Particle Systems}}, booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2019)}, pages = {54:1--54:22}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-125-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2019}, volume = {145}, editor = {Achlioptas, Dimitris and V\'{e}gh, L\'{a}szl\'{o} A.}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.54}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-112696}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2019.54}, annote = {Keywords: Markov chains, Programmable matter, Cluster expansion} }