Download or read book Multilevel Optimization: Algorithms and Applications written by A. Migdalas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen chapters explore the mathematics of multilevel programming in decision procedures. Hierarchy structures are found in governmental decision making with regard to land-use and economic planning, as well as a number of scientific disciplines, including environmental studies, ecology, biology, mechanics, and classification theory. The majority of the papers were selected form the November, 1995 Bilevel Programming Workshop, and treat such topics as: the relationship between linear optimization over the efficient set and the bilevel linear programming problem; characterizations of globally and locally optimal solutions in parametric convex lexicographic optimization, and a number of other issues. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR