@InProceedings{blondin_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2018.16, author = {Blondin, Michael and Esparza, Javier and Jaax, Stefan}, title = {{Large Flocks of Small Birds: on the Minimal Size of Population Protocols}}, booktitle = {35th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2018)}, pages = {16:1--16:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-062-0}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {96}, editor = {Niedermeier, Rolf and Vall\'{e}e, Brigitte}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.16}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-85116}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.16}, annote = {Keywords: Population protocols, Presburger arithmetic} }