Patent ID: 7685079

Claim:
A method for evaluating robustness of solutions to a constraint problem, the method comprising: (a) determining one or more inputs for the constraint problem; (b) determining bias, uncertainty, or bias and uncertainty of the one or more inputs; (c) randomly perturbating at least one of the one or more inputs based on the bias, uncertainty, or bias and uncertainty of the one or more inputs to determine one or more modified inputs; (d) generating a solution to the constraint problem based on the one or more modified inputs; (e) storing the solution; (f) repeating (c) through (e) until multiple solutions are stored; and (g) determining the robustness of the stored multiple solutions by comparison of the stored multiple solutions to each other; wherein the one or more modified inputs comprise: the randomly perturbated input or inputs; and the non-perturbated input or inputs.