Brief announcement: Minimizing energy solves relative majority with a cubic number of states in population protocols
T.-L. Breitkopf, J. Dallot, A. El-Hayek, S. Schmid, in:, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Association for Computing Machinery, 2025, pp. 549–552.

When is liquid democracy possible?: On the manipulation of variance
K. Chatterjee, S. Gilbert, S. Schmid, J. Svoboda, M.X. Yeo, in:, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Association for Computing Machinery, 2025, pp. 241–251.