Necessary Optimality Conditions for Semi-vectorial Bi-level Optimization with Convex Lower Level:Theoretical Results and Applications to the Quadratic Case

This paper explores related aspects to post-Pareto analysis arising from the multicriteria optimization problem.It consists of two main parts.In the first one,we give first-order necessary optimality conditions for a semi-vectorial bi-level optimization problem:the upper level is a scalar optimization problem to be solved by the leader,and the lower level is a multi-objective optimization problem to be solved by several followers acting in a cooperative way(greatest coalition multi-players game).For the lower level,we deal with weakly or properly Pareto(efficient)solutions and we consider the so-called optimistic problem,i.e.when followers choose amongst Pareto solutions one which is the most favourable for the leader.In order to handle reallife applications,in the second part of the paper,we consider the case where each follower objective is expressed in a quadratic form.In this setting,we give explicit first-order necessary optimality conditions.Finally,some computational results are given to illustrate the paper.