A Computational Study of Global Algorithms for Linear Bilevel Programming

We analyze two global algorithms for solving the linear bilevel program (LBP) problem. The first one is a recent algorithm built on a new concept of equilibrium point and a modified version of the outer approximation method. The second one is an efficient branch-and-bound algorithm known in the literature. Based on computational results we propose some modifications in both algorithms to improve their computational performance. A significant number of experiments is carried out and a comparative study with the algorithms is presented. The modified procedures has better performance than the original versions.

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