Bilevel Programming: The Montreal School

Abstract Although leader-follower games have been around for quite some time in economics and game theory, their integration into the realm of optimization and operations research is recent. In this paper, we provide an overview of research in bilevel programming that was initiated at the University of Montreal and led to a large scale application in the field of revenue management.

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