Article ID: | iaor20042848 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 307 |
End Page Number: | 319 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2003 |
Journal: | Journal of Heuristics |
Authors: | Kulkarni B.D., Jayaraman V.K., Rajesh J., Gupta Kapil, Kusumakar Hari Shankar |
Keywords: | tabu search, bilevel programming, chemical industry |
In this paper an approach based on the tabu search paradigm to tackle the bilevel programming problems is presented. The algorithm has been tested for a number of benchmark problems and the results obtained show superiority of the approach over the conventional methods in solving such problems.