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    Hyper-Heuristics: a Survey and Taxonomy
    (Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2024) Kucukyilmaz, Tayfun; Talbi, El-Ghazali; Dokeroglu, Tansel
    Hyper-heuristics are search techniques for selecting, generating, and sequencing (meta)-heuristics to solve challenging optimization problems. They differ from traditional (meta)-heuristics methods, which primarily employ search space-based optimization strategies. Due to the remarkable performance of hyper-heuristics in multi-objective and machine learning-based optimization, there has been an increasing interest in this field. With a fresh perspective, our work extends the current taxonomy and presents an overview of the most significant hyper-heuristic studies of the last two decades. Four categories under which we analyze hyperheuristics are selection hyper-heuristics (including machine learning techniques), low-level heuristics, target optimization problems, and parallel hyper-heuristics. Future research prospects, trends, and prospective fields of study are also explored.
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    Citation - WoS: 2
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    Exploring Mooc Learners' Behavioural Patterns Considering Age, Gender and Number of Course Enrolments: Insights for Improving Educational Opportunities
    (int Council Open & Distance Education, 2024) Cagiltay, Nergiz ercil; Toker, Sacip; Cagiltay, Kursat
    Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) now offer a variety of options for everyone to obtain a high -quality education. The purpose of this study is to better understand the behaviours of MOOC learners and provide some insights for taking actions that benefit larger learner groups. Accordingly, 2,288,559 learners' behaviours on 174 MITx courses were analysed. The results show that MOOCs are more attractive to the elderly, male, and highly educated groups of learners. Learners' performance improves as they register for more courses and improve their skills and experiences on MOOCs. The findings suggest that, in the long run, learners' adaptation to MOOCs will significantly improve the potential benefits of the MOOCs. Hence, MOOCs should continue by better understanding their learners and providing alternative instructional designs by considering different learner groups. MOOC providers' decision -makers may take these findings into account when making operational decisions.
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    Citation - WoS: 5
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    Ranking Surgical Skills Using an Attention-Enhanced Siamese Network With Piecewise Aggregated Kinematic Data
    (Springer Heidelberg, 2022) Gilgien, Matthias; Ozdemir, Suat; Ogul, Burcin Buket
    Purpose Surgical skill assessment using computerized methods is considered to be a promising direction in objective performance evaluation and expert training. In a typical architecture for computerized skill assessment, a classification system is asked to assign a query action to a predefined category that determines the surgical skill level. Since such systems are still trained by manual, potentially inconsistent annotations, an attempt to categorize the skill level can be biased by potentially scarce or skew training data. Methods We approach the skill assessment problem as a pairwise ranking task where we compare two input actions to identify better surgical performance. We propose a model that takes two kinematic motion data acquired from robot-assisted surgery sensors and report the probability of a query sample having a better skill than a reference one. The model is an attention-enhanced Siamese Long Short-Term Memory Network fed by piecewise aggregate approximation of kinematic data. Results The proposed model can achieve higher accuracy than existing models for pairwise ranking in a common dataset. It can also outperform existing regression models when applied in their experimental setup. The model is further shown to be accurate in individual progress monitoring with a new dataset, which will serve as a strong baseline. Conclusion This relative assessment approach may overcome the limitations of having consistent annotations to define skill levels and provide a more interpretable means for objective skill assessment. Moreover, the model allows monitoring the skill development of individuals by comparing two activities at different time points.
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    Predicting the Severity of Covid-19 Patients Using a Multi-Threaded Evolutionary Feature Selection Algorithm
    (Wiley, 2022) Kiziloz, Hakan Ezgi; Sevinc, Ender; Dokeroglu, Tansel; Deniz, Ayca
    The COVID-19 pandemic has huge effects on the global community and an extreme burden on health systems. There are more than 185 million confirmed cases and 4 million deaths as of July 2021. Besides, the exponential rise in COVID-19 cases requires a quick prediction of the patients' severity for better treatment. In this study, we propose a Multi-threaded Genetic feature selection algorithm combined with Extreme Learning Machines (MG-ELM) to predict the severity level of the COVID-19 patients. We conduct a set of experiments on a recently published real-world dataset. We reprocess the dataset via feature construction to improve the learning performance of the algorithm. Upon comprehensive experiments, we report the most impactful features and symptoms for predicting the patients' severity level. Moreover, we investigate the effects of multi-threaded implementation with statistical analysis. In order to verify the efficiency of MG-ELM, we compare our results with traditional and state-of-the-art techniques. The proposed algorithm outperforms other algorithms in terms of prediction accuracy.
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    Tacıt Knowledge Vısualızatıon Through Organızatıonal Explıcıt Knowledge Warehouses: A Proposal For Research Methodology Desıgn And Executıon
    (2011) Medeni, İhsan Tolga; Medeni, Tunç; Tolun, Mehmet
    Knowledge visualization can be used in several fields from medical imaging to industrial engineering. Although there could be variety of applicable research areas, our consideration will be the tacit knowledge visualization in organizations. This proposal aims to suggest a study to develop a tacit knowledge visualization framework to support know-where requirements of the organizational knowledge. With the implementation of our framework in a software application, it is aimed to create a virtual environment, where subject-based knowledge requirements will be answered by the visualized tacit knowledge of individuals and possibly the relations among individual members of the organization
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    Citation - WoS: 2
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    An Intelligent System for Detecting Mediterranean Fruit Fly [Medfly; Ceratitis Capitata (Wiedemann)]
    (Pagepress Publ, 2022) Eyyuboglu, Halil Tanyer; Sari, Filiz; Uzun, Yusuf; Tolun, Mehmet Resit
    Nowadays, the most critical agriculture-related problem is the harm caused to fruit, vegetable, nut, and flower crops by harmful pests, particularly the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, named Medfly. Medfly's existence in agricultural fields must be monitored systematically for effective combat against it. Special traps are utilised in the field to catch Medflies which will reveal their presence and applying pesticides at the right time will help reduce their population. A technologically supported automated remote monitoring system should eliminate frequent site visits as a more economical solution. This paper develops a deep learning system that can detect Medfly images on a picture and count their numbers. A particular trap equipped with an integrated camera that can take photos of the sticky band where Medflies are caught daily is utilised. Obtained pictures are then transmitted by an electronic circuit containing a SIM card to the central server where the object detection algorithm runs. This study employs a faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) model in identifying trapped Medflies. When Medflies or other insects stick on the trap's sticky band, they spend extraordinary effort trying to release themselves in a panic until they die. Therefore, their shape is badly distorted as their bodies, wings, and legs are buckled. The challenge is that the deep learning system should detect these Medflies of distorted shape with high accuracy. Therefore, it is crucial to utilise pictures containing trapped Medfly images with distorted shapes for training and validation. In this paper, the success rate in identifying Medflies when other insects are also present is approximately 94%, achieved by the deep learning system training process, owing to the considerable amount of purpose-specific photographic data. This rate may be seen as quite favourable when compared to the success rates provided in the literature.
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    Bilgi Biliminin Mühendislik Gereksinimi ve Bilgi Mühendisliği
    (2009) Medeni, İhsan Tolga; Aktaş, A. Ziya; Tolun, Mehmet R.
    Yirminci yüzyılın ikinci yarısında bilgisayar, bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerindeki gelişmeler bilgiye dayalı yeni bilim ve mühendislik disiplinleri oluşturma ihtiyacını doğurmuştur. Bu ihtiyaç nedeniyle doğan yeni bilim ve mühendislik disiplinlerinin gelişiminin aslında (veri, enformasyon ve bilgi ) üçlüsüne yönelik oluşumlar olduğu gözlemlenmektedir.Bu makalede bilgi sözcüğü bu üçlü için genel bir ad olarak kullanılacaktır. Bilgi disiplini bir taraftan, bu üçlü arasındaki bağların örgütler ve bireyler açısından ortaya koyulmasını amaçlar; açık ve örtük bilginin birbirine dönüşümünü sağlamaya çalışırken, diğer taraftan da ortaya çıkan yeni dallar ve var olan dalların bilgi temelli ilişkisini kurmaya yönelik çalışmalar yapmaktadır. Bu üçlünün ve bilgi disiplininin bilim / mühendislik, işletme / yönetim disiplinleriyle olan ilişkisi ve oluşturulacak bir bilgi mühendisliği lisans programının bu kavramlarla olabilecek ilgisi bu bildirinin konusudur.
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    Big Data Reduction and Visualization Using the K-Means Algorithm
    (2022) Akyol, Hakan; Kızılduman, Hale Sema; Dökeroğlu, Tansel
    A huge amount of data is being produced every day in our era. In addition to high-performance processing approaches, efficiently visualizing this quantity of data (up to Terabytes) remains a major difficulty. In this study, we use the well-known clustering method K-means as a data reduction strategy that keeps the visual quality of the provided huge data as high as possible. The centroids of the dataset are used to display the distribution properties of data in a straightforward manner. Our data comes from a recent Kaggle big data set (Click Through Rate), and it is displayed using Box plots on reduced datasets, compared to the original plots. It is discovered that K-means is an effective strategy for reducing the amount of huge data in order to view the original data without sacrificing its distribution information quality
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    Citation - WoS: 238
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    A Comprehensive Survey on Recent Metaheuristics for Feature Selection
    (Elsevier, 2022) Dokeroglu, Tansel; Deniz, Ayca; Kiziloz, Hakan Ezgi
    Feature selection has become an indispensable machine learning process for data preprocessing due to the ever-increasing sizes in actual data. There have been many solution methods proposed for feature selection since the 1970s. For the last two decades, we have witnessed the superiority of metaheuristic feature selection algorithms, and tens of new ones are being proposed every year. This survey focuses on the most outstanding recent metaheuristic feature selection algorithms of the last two decades in terms of their performance in exploration/exploitation operators, selection methods, transfer functions, fitness value evaluations, and parameter setting techniques. Current challenges of the metaheuristic feature selection algorithms and possible future research topics are examined and brought to the attention of the researchers as well.
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    Müfredat Tabanlı Ders Çizelgeleme Problemi için Yeni Bir Açgözlü Algoritma
    (2023) Batuhan,; Say, Bilge; Dokeroglu, Tansel
    Bu çalışma, iyi bilinen Müfredat Tabanlı Ders Çizelgeleme Problemini optimize etmek için yeni bir açgözlü algoritmayı açıklamaktadır. Açgözlü algoritmalar, en iyi çözümü bulmak için yürütülmesi uzun zaman alan kaba kuvvet ve evrimsel algoritmalara iyi bir alternatiftir. Birçok açgözlü algoritmanın yaptığı gibi tek bir buluşsal yöntem kullanmak yerine, aynı problem örneğine 120 yeni buluşsal yöntem tanımlıyor ve uyguluyoruz. Dersleri müsait odalara atamak için, önerilen açgözlü algoritmamız En Büyük-İlk, En Küçük-İlk, En Uygun, Önce Ortalama Ağırlık ve En Yüksek Kullanılamaz ders-ilk buluşsal yöntemlerini kullanır. İkinci Uluslararası Zaman Çizelgesi Yarışması'nın (ITC-2007) kıyaslama setinden 21 problem örneği üzerinde kapsamlı deneyler gerçekleştirilir. Önemli ölçüde azaltılmış yumuşak kısıtlama değerlerine sahip 18 problem için, önerilen açgözlü algoritma sıfır sabit kısıtlama ihlali (uygulanabilir çözümler) rapor edebilir. Önerilen algoritma, performans açısından son teknoloji ürünü açgözlü buluşsal yöntemleri geride bırakıyor.