@InProceedings{beauquier_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2015.21, author = {Beauquier, Joffroy and Blanchard, Peva and Burman, Janna and Guerraoui, Rachid}, title = {{The Benefits of Entropy in Population Protocols}}, booktitle = {19th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2015)}, pages = {21:1--21:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-939897-98-9}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {46}, editor = {Anceaume, Emmanuelle and Cachin, Christian and Potop-Butucaru, Maria}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2015.21}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-66128}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2015.21}, annote = {Keywords: algorithmic randomness, entropy, leader election, distributed computing, scheduler, population protocols} }