BILENS: BIlevel optimization for Logistics, Energy and Security problems

BILENS is an associated team between INOCS- INRIA Lille and CMM/ISCI Santiago de Chile.

The team focuses on the development of new models and solution methods for problems that can be addressed by bilevel programming / Stackelberg games. Bilevel problems are constrained optimization problems in which some constraints specify that a subset of variables is an optimal solution to another (nested) optimization problem. Stackelberg games are games in which an agent, the leader, must commit to a strategy that the other agents, the followers, can observe before committing to a strategy of their own.

In BILENS, problems of logistics, energy and security are addressed. The study of these problems, defined thanks to the researchers' contacts with companies in these fields, will allow the development of relevant approaches with potential transferability to industry.

In France: 

• Luce Brotcorne, researcher, coordinator BILENS project, INOCS project-team, Inria Centre at Université de Lille, Inria

• Martine Labbé, researcher, INOCS project-team, Inria Centre at Université de Lille, Inria

• Marius Roland, researcher, INOCS project-team, Inria Centre at Université de Lille, Inria

• Frédéric Semet, researcher, INOCS project-team, Inria Centre at Université de Lille, Inria

• Adrien Belfer, PhD student, INOCS project-team, Inria Centre at Université de Lille, Inria

• Nathalia Wolf, PhD student, INOCS project-team, Inria Centre at Université de Lille, Inria

• Sebastián Dávila, postdoc, INOCS project-team, Inria Centre at Université de Lille, Inria

In Chile: 

• Alejandro Jofré, researcher, coordinator BILENS project, Centro de Modelamiento Matemático, Universidad de Chile

• Victor Bucarey, researcher, Universidad de O’Higgins, Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI)

• Pablo Escalona, researcher, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

• Fernando Ordóñez, researcher, Universidad de Chile, Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI)

• Benjamin Vera, PhD student, Universidad de Chile

• José Tomás Cabezas Vergara, PhD student, Universidad de Chile

• Javiera Andrea Carrasco Cavieres, MSc student, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

• Mario Iván Alcota Arias, MSc student, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María