@InProceedings{chechik_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.659, author = {Chechik, Shiri and Cohen, Edith and Kaplan, Haim}, title = {{Average Distance Queries through Weighted Samples in Graphs and Metric Spaces: High Scalability with Tight Statistical Guarantees}}, booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015)}, pages = {659--679}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-939897-89-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2015}, volume = {40}, editor = {Garg, Naveen and Jansen, Klaus and Rao, Anup and Rolim, Jos\'{e} D. P.}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.659}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53291}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.659}, annote = {Keywords: Closeness Centrality; Average Distance; Metric Space; Weighted Sampling} }