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efficientmannerisnoteasyanddefinitelychallenging. Developinghybridbileveloptimization<br />

algorithms involving various optimization techniques, such as evolutionary,<br />

classical, mathematical, simulated annealing methods etc., are possible in both levels<br />

independently or synergistically, allowing a plethora of implementational opportunities.<br />

This paper has demonstrated one such implementation involving evolutionary<br />

algorithms, a classical local search method, and a mathematical optimality condition<br />

for termination, but certainly many other ideas are possible and must be pursued urgently.<br />

Every upper level Pareto-optimal solution comes from a lower level Paretooptimalsolutionset.<br />

Thus,adecisionmakingtechniqueforchoosingasinglepreferred<br />

solution in such scenarios must involve both upper and lower level objective space<br />

considerations, which may require and give birth to new and interactive multiple criterion<br />

decision making (MCDM) methodologies. Finally, a successful implementation<br />

andunderstandingofmulti-objectivebilevelprogrammingtasksshouldmotivateusto<br />

understandanddevelophigherlevel(say,threeorfour-level)optimizationalgorithms,<br />

which should also be of great interest to computational science due to the hierarchical<br />

natureof systems approachoftenfollowed incomplex computational problemsolving<br />

tasks today.<br />

Acknowledgments<br />

Authors wishtothank Academyof FinlandandFoundationofHelsinki School ofEconomics<br />

(undergrant 118319)for theirsupport of this study.<br />

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