Relative Worst-Order Analysis: A Survey.

Joan Boyar, Lene M. Favrholdt, and Kim S. Larsen.
In Adventures Between Lower Bounds and Higher Altitudes - Essays Dedicated to Juraj Hromkovič on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, volume 11011 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 216-230. Springer, 2018.

Relative worst-order analysis is a technique for assessing the relative quality of online algorithms. We survey the most important results obtained with this technique and compare it with other quality measures.

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