A new approach to solving multi-follower multi-objective linear bilevel programming problems

In this paper, we present a suitable extension of the approach described by Pieume et al. (2011) for solving multi-follower multi-objective linear bilevel programming problems. This problem is a special case of multi-follower bilevel linear programming problems, where each decision maker possesses several objective functions that in some cases, conflict with one another. We construct a multi-objective linear programming problem. Furthermore, we show that the multi-follower multi-objective linear bilevel programming problem can be reduced to optimize the top-level multi-objective linear programming problem over an efficient set. The proposed approach uses a Pareto-filter scheme, and obtains an approximate discrete representation efficient set unlike the fuzzy approaches that only obtain one efficient solution. Ultimately, a numerical example is presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.