3 papers
math.OC2026
Handling Overtime Constraints in Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Surgical Scheduling: A Comparison of Neural Network and Classical Linearization Techniques
Cindy Pistorius, J. Theresia van Essen
Uncertainty in surgery durations continues to be difficult to account for in operating room scheduling. In particular, it remains complex to accurately incorporate uncertainty in s…
astro-ph.EP2025
Observational evidence for a possible link between PAH emission and dust trap locations in protoplanetary disks
Nienke van der Marel, Niels F. W. Ligterink, Ryan van der Werf +4
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are commonly detected in protoplanetary disks, but it is unclear what causes the wide range of intensities across the samples. In this work,…
q-fin.CP2025
Controllable Generation of Implied Volatility Surfaces with Variational Autoencoders
Jing Wang, Shuaiqiang Liu, Cornelis Vuik
This paper presents a deep generative modeling framework for controllably synthesizing implied volatility surfaces (IVSs) using a variational autoencoder (VAE). Unlike conventional…