68-XX COMPUTER SCIENCE (For papers involving machine computations and programs in a specific mathematical area, see Section -04 in that area)
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In the last 20 years competitive analysis has become the main tool for
analyzing the quality of online algorithms. Despite of this,
competitive analysis has also been criticized: It sometimes cannot
discriminate between algorithms that exhibit significantly different
empirical behavior, or it even favors an algorithm that is worse from
an empirical point of view. Therefore, there have been several
approaches to circumvent these drawbacks. In this survey, we discuss
probabilistic alternatives for competitive analysis.