Programacão em dois níveis: teoria e algoritmos

Abstract

This work gives a rigorous approach of bilevel problems, especially the linear case. Proofs of known results in the literature are reproduced or remade. As motivation for the reader, classic problems are reformulated as bilevel problems. In theoretical point of view, some contributions are the formalization of relations between models of literature; their extensions to multilevel problems; the result that complements the equivalence between optimal solutions of the models in linear optimistic case; and the generalization of the method of Calamai and Vicente for generation of linear test problems. In practical point of view, the contribution is a new algorithm for local optimal solutions of linear problems, which differs from other methods in generality: treat unlimited problems, and only requires that the problem s polyhedron does not have degenerate faces.