@InProceedings{diluna_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2017.31, author = {Di Luna, Giuseppe A. and Flocchini, Paola and Santoro, Nicola and Viglietta, Giovanni and Yamauchi, Yukiko}, title = {{Shape Formation by Programmable Particles}}, booktitle = {21st International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2017)}, pages = {31:1--31:16}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-061-3}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {95}, editor = {Aspnes, James and Bessani, Alysson and Felber, Pascal and Leit\~{a}o, Jo\~{a}o}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2017.31}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-86370}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2017.31}, annote = {Keywords: Shape formation, pattern formation, programmable matter, Amoebots, leader election, distributed algorithms} }