Obligatory Assignment 2

Preface

• Deadline: Sunday, May 24, 2026, at 23:59

• Read the whole preface below before you start working.

• This is the second of two obligatory assignments for the course AI505 and the second of three for AI801.

• It consists of two cases:
  • Case 1: Interior Point Methods for Linear Programming
  • Case 2: Team Formation

• This assignment should be carried out in groups of two. Groups different from two must be approved by the teacher. It is suggested to change partner from Assignment 1, however, this is not a strong requirement.

• Submission Format: To complete the assignment you have to submit in ItsLearning a .tgz or .zip archive named asg2.tgz or asg2.zip that uncompresses to a directory asg2 with the following structure:

  asg2/
  ├── README.md
  ├── deklarationsformular-nat-gai.pdf
  ├── data
  ├── src
  └── tex
      └── main.pdf
  

  • deklarationsformular-nat-gai.pdf` Generative AI declaration form from the Faculty. The document in Word format must be submitted compiled in PDF form.

  • data must contain problem instances used for the analysis (not relevant for asg1)

  • src must contain all the Python code for the calculations you carried out. Do not report code in the appendix but provide indication about where it can be found within this directory. Do not include temporary files generated by computational experiments.

  • tex contains your report in PDF format as concise as possible with the answers to the tasks. The report should be written in Latex. Template is available from here. Remember to write all names of the members of the group.

• Questions and answers about this assignment cannot be addressed to the teacher but must be posted at the bottom of this page. In this way, the communication will be visible to the others class members as well.

• Changes to this document after publication date on May 4 will be emphasized in color blue.

• SDU rules on AI assistants https://mitsdu.dk/en/aiatsdu apply to this exam. In particular:

  • you have to add the Generative AI declaration form from the Faculty or an Appendix where you declare to which extent you have used AI tools. The Form or the Appendix must be present also if you did not use AI and hence declare so.

  • if you do not declare but the teachers have suspects that you used AI tools, you will be reported for exam cheating

  • if you use AI, the teachers will be allowed to take this in consideration and to lower consequently the final grade if they suspect that the learning goals have not been achieved.

  In declaring the use you can share the conversation you had with the tools and provide the link or copying it in the Appendix or in the declaration form. The Appendix and the declaration form are not subject to page limits.

• You can write your answers in Danish or in English.