Bilevel Programming, Equilibrium, and Combinatorial Problems with Applications to Engineering

1Department of Systems & Industrial Engineering, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM), Campus Monterrey, Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur, 64849 Monterrey, NL, Mexico 2Department of Social Modeling, Central Economics & Mathematics Institute (CEMI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovsky pr. 47, Moscow 117418, Russia 3Department of Computing, Sumy State University, Rimsky-Korsakov St. 2, Sumy 40007, Ukraine 4Department of Industrial Engineering, Texas Tech University, P.O. Box 43061, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA 5Facultad de Ciencias Fisico-Matematicas, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Avenida Universidad S/N, 66450 San Nicolas de los Garza, NL, Mexico 6Kharkiv Institute of Banking of the University of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine, Peremogy Avenue 55, Kharkiv 61174, Ukraine

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