The bilevel knapsack problem with stochastic right-hand sides

  • Authors:
  • Osman Y. ÖZaltıN;Oleg A. Prokopyev;Andrew J. Schaefer

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1048 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA;Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1048 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA;Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1048 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We introduce the bilevel knapsack problem with stochastic right-hand sides, and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an optimal solution. When the leader's decisions can take only integer values, we present an equivalent two-stage stochastic programming reformulation with binary recourse. We develop a branch-and-cut algorithm for solving this reformulation, and a branch-and-backtrack algorithm for solving the scenario subproblems. Computational experiments indicate that our approach can solve large instances in a reasonable amount of time.