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performance guarantee

(definition)

Definition: An expression of the most the result of an approximation algorithm may depart from the optimal solution.

See also absolute performance guarantee, relative performance guarantee, optimization problem.

Note: From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, page 34-17, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.

Author: CRC-A

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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "performance guarantee", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: https://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/performance.html