Global Optimization of Nonlinear Bilevel Programming Problems

Journal of Global Optimization

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-31

  Gümüş, Zeynep H ^a   Floudas, Christodoulos A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilevel nonlinear; Bilevel optimization; Bilevel programming; Global optimization; Mixed integer nonlinear optimization; Nonconvex; Twice continuously differentiable

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035332163     PISSN: 09255001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011268113791     Document Type: Article

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