The increased focus on heuristics for the approximate solution of integer programs has led to more sophisticated analysis methods for studying their performance. This paper is concerned with the worst ...

This first post in The Worst Case blog focuses on the skills, resources, and techniques needed to properly perform a worst-case circuit analysis and some ...

In this paper, we analyze the worst-case performance of heuristics for the classical economic lot-sizing problem with time-invariant cost parameters. We consider a general class of online heuristics ...

A “worst case” analysis of rail voltage decoupling for a digital circuit board was required, but the challenge was to determine what the worst case current pulse circumstances could actually be. The ...

Worst case analysis is part of the engineering zeitgeist, and is the reason that so many systems behave so well despite all sorts of unanticipated insults. We engineers are very much unlike other ...

Digital worst-case timing analysis (WCTA) analyzes the timing of digital devices under worst-case end-of-life conditions including initial, temperature, aging, and radiation tolerances.