Orthogonal genetic algorithm for solving quadratic bilevel programming problems

A quadratic bilevel programming problem is transformed  into a single level complementarity slackness problem by applying  Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. To cope with the complementarity  constraints, a binary encoding scheme is adopted for  KKT multipliers, and then the complementarity slackness problem  is simplified to successive quadratic programming problems,  which can be solved by many algorithms available. Based on 0−1  binary encoding, an orthogonal genetic algorithm, in which the orthogonal  experimental design with both two-level orthogonal array  and factor analysis is used as crossover operator, is proposed.  Numerical experiments on 10 benchmark examples show that the  orthogonal genetic algorithm can find global optimal solutions of  quadratic bilevel programming problems with high accuracy in a  small number of iterations.