a Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of New Brunswick, P.O. Box 5050, Saint John, NB, Canada b Faculty of Business Administration, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ont., Canada
Abstract:
We introduce the lexicographic balanced optimization problem (LBaOP) and show that it can be solved efficiently if an associated lexicographic bottleneck problem can be solved efficiently. For special cases of cuts in a graph and base system of a matroid, improved algorithms are proposed. A generalization of LBaOP is also discussed.