@InProceedings{kedia_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.14, author = {Kedia, Hridesh and Oh, Shunhao and Randall, Dana}, title = {{Local Stochastic Algorithms for Alignment in Self-Organizing Particle Systems}}, booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022)}, pages = {14:1--14:20}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-249-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2022}, volume = {245}, editor = {Chakrabarti, Amit and Swamy, Chaitanya}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.14}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-171367}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.14}, annote = {Keywords: Self-organizing particle systems, alignment, Markov chains, active matter} }