@InProceedings{diluna_et_al:LIPIcs.DISC.2017.48, author = {Di Luna, Giuseppe A. and Flocchini, Paola and Santoro, Nicola and Viglietta, Giovanni and Yamauchi, Yukiko}, title = {{Brief Announcement: Shape Formation by Programmable Particles}}, booktitle = {31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2017)}, pages = {48:1--48:3}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-053-8}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2017}, volume = {91}, editor = {Richa, Andr\'{e}a}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2017.48}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-80019}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2017.48}, annote = {Keywords: Shape formation, pattern formation, programmable matter, Amoebots, leader election, distributed algorithms, self-assembly} }