一类非线性三层规划问题的罚函数方法

文章研究了一类结构为非线性-线性-线性三:层规划问题的求解方法.首先,基于下层问题的Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (K-K-T)最优性条件,将该类非线性三层规划问题转化为具有互补约束的非线性二层规划,同时将下层问题的互补约束作为罚项添加到上层目标;然后,再次利用下层问题的K-K-T最优性条件将非线性二层规划转化为非线性单层规划,并再次将得到的互补约束作为上层目标的罚项,构造了该类非线性三层规划问题的罚问题.通过对罚问题性质的分析,得到了该类非线性三层规划问题最优解的必要条件,并设计了罚函数算法.数值结果表明所设计的罚函数算法是可行、有效的.     

一类非线性半向量二层规划问题的罚函数方法

本文研究了一类非线性-线性半向量二层规划问题的罚函数求解方法.对于该类半向量二层规划问题,首先基于下层问题的加权标量化方法和Karush-Kuhn-Tucker最优性条件,将其转化为一般的二层规划问题,并取下层问题的互补约束为罚项,构造出相应的罚问题;然后分析罚问题最优解的相关特征以及最优性条件,进而设计了相应的罚函数算法;最后以相关算例验证了罚函数算法的可行、有效性.     

一类半向量二层规划问题的精确罚函数方法

研究了一类半向量二层规划乐观最优解的求解问题.利用下层问题的最优性条件构造了该类半向量二层规划问题的罚问题,分析了原问题的最优解与罚问题最优解之间的关系,证明了罚函数的精确性.同时对目标函数和约束条件均为线性函数的半向量二层规划问题研究了其最优性条件,并设计了相应的罚函数算法.数值结果表明所设计的罚函数方法对该类半向量二层规划问题是可行的.     

非线性二层规划问题的全局优化方法

对于下层为线性规划问题的一类非线性二层规划问题,利用线性规划的对偶理论,将其转化为一个单层优化问题,同时取下层问题的对偶间隙作为惩罚项,构造了一个相应的罚问题,然后提出了一个求解该类二层规划问题的全局优化方法。最后,数值结果表明,所提出的方法是可行的。     

一类弱线性二层多目标规划的罚函数方法

本文研究了一类线性二层多目标规划(上层为单目标、下层为多目标)"悲观最优解"的求解问题.利用罚函数方法给出了该类问题"悲观最优解"的存在性定理,证明了罚函数的精确性,同时设计了相应的罚函数算法.数值结果表明所设计的罚函数方法是可行的.     

一种求解线性二层规划的割平面方法

以下层问题的K-T最优性条件代替下层问题,将线性二层规划转化为相应的单层规划问题,通过分析单层规划可行解集合的结构特征,设计了一种求解线性二层规划全局最优解的割平面算法.数值结果表明所设计的割平面算法是可行、有效的.     

下层为凸标量优化的二层多目标规划问题的光滑化方法

以下层问题的最优性条件代替下层问题,将下层为凸标量优化的一类二层多目标规划问题转化为带互补约束的不可微多目标规划问题,采用扰动的Fischer-Burmeister函数对互补约束光滑化,得到了相应的光滑化多目标规划问题,分析了原问题的有效解与光滑化多目标规划问题有效解的关系,设计了求解该类二层多目标规划问题的光滑化算法,并分析了算法的收敛性.数值结果表明该光滑化方法是可行的.     

求线性二层规划∈-全局最优解的一种方法

本文研究了线性二层规划问题.利用下层问题的KKT最优性条件将其转化为一个具有互补约束的数学规划问题,提出了一种新的求解方法.该方法仅仅需要求解若干个双线性规划问题,便可以获得原问题的∈-全局最优解.最后,通过一个算例说明了所提出方法的可行性.     

关于一类二层规划问题的一阶最优性条件研究

本文针对一类具有特定结构的二层规划问题, 将下层问题用其KKT条件代替, 把二层规划问题转化成带有互补约束的单层优化问题.然后利用Fritz-John条件,在适当的条件下,得到了二层优化问题的一阶最优性条件.本文所给条件简单、容易验证,并且不同于[1]的条件.     

线性半向量二层规划问题的全局优化方法

研究了线性半向量二层规划问题的全局优化方法. 利用下层问题的对偶间隙构造了线性半向量二层规划问题的罚问题, 通过分析原问题的最优解与罚问题可行域顶点之间的关系, 将线性半向量二层规划问题转化为有限个线性规划问题, 从而得到线性半向量二层规划问题的全局最优解. 数值结果表明所设计的全局优化方法对线性半向量二层规划问题是可行的.     

A penalty function method for solving inverse optimal value problem

In order to consider the inverse optimal value problem under more general conditions, we transform the inverse optimal value problem into a corresponding nonlinear bilevel programming problem equivalently. Using the Kuhn–Tucker optimality condition of the lower level problem, we transform the nonlinear bilevel programming into a normal nonlinear programming. The complementary and slackness condition of the lower level problem is appended to the upper level objective with a penalty. Then we give via an exact penalty method an existence theorem of solutions and propose an algorithm for the inverse optimal value problem, also analysis the convergence of the proposed algorithm. The numerical result shows that the algorithm can solve a wider class of inverse optimal value problem.     

Necessary optimality conditions for a special class of bilevel programming problems with unique lower level solution

We consider a bilevel programming problem in Banach spaces whose lower level solution is unique for any choice of the upper level variable. A condition is presented which ensures that the lower level solution mapping is directionally differentiable, and a formula is constructed which can be used to compute this directional derivative. Afterwards, we apply these results in order to obtain first-order necessary optimality conditions for the bilevel programming problem. It is shown that these optimality conditions imply that a certain mathematical program with complementarity constraints in Banach spaces has the optimal solution zero. We state the weak and strong stationarity conditions of this problem as well as corresponding constraint qualifications in order to derive applicable necessary optimality conditions for the original bilevel programming problem. Finally, we use the theory to state new necessary optimality conditions for certain classes of semidefinite bilevel programming problems and present an example in terms of bilevel optimal control.     

An inexact-restoration method for nonlinear bilevel programming problems

We present a new algorithm for solving bilevel programming problems without reformulating them as single-level nonlinear programming problems. This strategy allows one to take profit of the structure of the lower level optimization problems without using non-differentiable methods. The algorithm is based on the inexact-restoration technique. Under some assumptions on the problem we prove global convergence to feasible points that satisfy the approximate gradient projection (AGP) optimality condition. Computational experiments are presented that encourage the use of this method for general bilevel problems. This work was supported by PRONEX-Optimization (PRONEX—CNPq/FAPERJ E-26/171.164/2003—APQ1), FAPESP (Grants 06/53768-0 and 05-56773-1) and CNPq.     

A trust region algorithm for solving bilevel programming problems

In this paper, we present a new trust region algorithm for a nonlinear bilevel programming problem by solving a series of its linear or quadratic approximation subproblems. For the nonlinear bilevel programming problem in which the lower level programming problem is a strongly convex programming problem with linear constraints, we show that each accumulation point of the iterative sequence produced by this algorithm is a stationary point of the bilevel programming problem.     

A dual-relax penalty function approach for solving nonlinear bilevel programming with linear lower level problem

The penalty function method, presented many years ago, is an important numerical method for the mathematical programming problems. In this article, we propose a dual-relax penalty function approach, which is significantly different from penalty function approach existing for solving the bilevel programming, to solve the nonlinear bilevel programming with linear lower level problem. Our algorithm will redound to the error analysis for computing an approximate solution to the bilevel programming. The error estimate is obtained among the optimal objective function value of the dual-relax penalty problem and of the original bilevel programming problem. An example is illustrated to show the feasibility of the proposed approach.     

关于二层规划的逼近问题

下层问题以上层决策变量作为参数,而上层是以下层问题的最优值作为响应 的一类最优化问题——二层规划问题。我们给出了由一系列此类二层规划去逼近原二层规划的逼近法,得到了这种逼近的一些有趣的结果.     

Bilevel programming problems with simple convex lower level

This article is dedicated to the study of bilevel optimal control problems equipped with a fully convex lower level of special structure. In order to construct necessary optimality conditions, we consider a general bilevel programming problem in Banach spaces possessing operator constraints, which is a generalization of the original bilevel optimal control problem. We derive necessary optimality conditions for the latter problem using the lower level optimal value function, ideas from DC-programming and partial penalization. Afterwards, we apply our results to the original optimal control problem to obtain necessary optimality conditions of Pontryagin-type. Along the way, we derive a handy formula, which might be used to compute the subdifferential of the optimal value function which corresponds to the lower level parametric optimal control problem.     

Descent approaches for quadratic bilevel programming

The bilevel programming problem involves two optimization problems where the data of the first one is implicitly determined by the solution of the second. In this paper, we introduce two descent methods for a special instance of bilevel programs where the inner problem is strictly convex quadratic. The first algorithm is based on pivot steps and may not guarantee local optimality. A modified steepest descent algorithm is presented to overcome this drawback. New rules for computing exact stepsizes are introduced and a hybrid approach that combines both strategies is discussed. It is proved that checking local optimality in bilevel programming is a NP-hard problem.Support of this work has been provided by INIC (Portugal) under Contract 89/EXA/5, by FCAR (Québec), and by NSERC and DND-ARP (Canada).