@InProceedings{bernstein_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2018.51,
  author =	{Bernstein, Aaron and D\"{a}ubel, Karl and Disser, Yann and Klimm, Max and M\"{u}tze, Torsten and Smolny, Frieder},
  title =	{{Distance-Preserving Graph Contractions}},
  booktitle =	{9th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2018)},
  pages =	{51:1--51:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-060-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{94},
  editor =	{Karlin, Anna R.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2018.51},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-83427},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2018.51},
  annote =	{Keywords: distance oracle, contraction, spanner}
}