The Operations Research Program Department of Industrial Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo

The general multilevel programming problem is a set of nested optimization problems over a single feasible region. Control over the decision variables is partitioned among the levels, but a decision variable may impact the objective function of several, if not all, levels. This approach is applicable to a variety of water resource planning problems, and will be compared to previous methods of multilevel planning. ∗Presented at the ASCE Water Resource Systems Specialty Conference, February 26, 1979. †Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York 14260. ‡Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York 14260. §Reprinted March 24, 2000. This LaTEX version reproduces the original manuscript skillfully typed (on a typewriter) by Ms. Terry DeGeorge.