Title
Linear bilevel multi-follower programming with independent followers
Abstract
This paper considers a particular case of linear bilevel programming problems with one leader and multiple followers. In this model, the followers are independent, meaning that the objective function and the set of constraints of each follower only include the leader's variables and his own variables. We prove that this problem can be reformulated into a linear bilevel problem with one leader and one follower by defining an adequate second level objective function and constraint region. In the second part of the paper we show that the results on the optimality of the linear bilevel problem with multiple independent followers presented in Shi et al. [The kth-best approach for linear bilevel multi-follower programming, J. Global Optim. 33, 563---578 (2005)] are based on a misconstruction of the inducible region.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/s10898-007-9144-2
J. Global Optimization
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bilevel programming,Linear,Multiple followers,k,th-best
Mathematical optimization,Bilevel optimization,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
3
0925-5001
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.80
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Herminia I. Calvete126121.37
Carmen Galé221615.52