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    Detection of Stylometric Writeprint From the Turkish Texts
    (Ieee, 2020) Canbay, Pelin; Sever, Hayri; Sezer, Ebru Akcapinar; Sever, Hayri; Bilgisayar Mühendisliği
    Authorship attribution studies aim to extract information about the author by analyzing the data in the text form. With the increase of anonymous authors in digital environments, the need for these works is increasing day by day. Although there exists lots of studies focuse on stylometric writeprint detection in different languages using different attributes, there is no standard feature set and detection algorithm to be evaluated in these studies. Giving priority to Turkish texts, in this study, which features are more distinctive for determining stylistic writeprint of text, and which methods will contribute to increase the success to be achieved are shown with experimental studies.
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    Scalable Video Transmission Over Unreliable Networks Using Multiple Description Wavelet Coding
    (2011) Choupanı, Roya; Choupany, R.; Wong, S.; Tolun, M.; Bilgisayar Mühendisliği
    Scalable video coding (SVC) and multiple description coding (MDC) are the two different adaptation schemes for video transmission over heterogenous and best-effort networks such as the Internet. We present a new approach to combine the advantages of SVC and MDC to provide reliable video communication over a wider range of communication networks and/or satisfy application requirements. Our proposed method utilizes 3D discrete wavelet transform and a modified embedded zero tree data structure to group the coefficients in different descriptions. The proposed method reduces the impact of the drift error by organizing the frames in a hierarchical structure. © 2011 AICIT.
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    Citation - WoS: 38
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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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    Citation - WoS: 5
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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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    Yeşil BHT Bilgi ve Haberleşme Teknolojileri Akademisyen ve Uygulayıcılar Açısından Bir İnceleme
    (2011) Akba, Fırat; Medeni, İhsan Tolga; Medeni, Tunç Durmuş; Tolun, Mehmet Reşit; Öztürk, Mehmet
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    Hierarchical SNR Scalable Video Coding with Adaptive Quantization for Reduced Drift Error
    (2015) Choupani, Roya; Wong, Stephan; Tolun, Mehmet
    In video coding, dependencies between frames are being exploited to achieve compression by only coding the differences. This dependency can potentially lead to decoding inaccuracies when there is a communication error, or a deliberate quality reduction due to reduced network or receiver capabilities. The dependency can start at the reference frame and progress through a chain of dependent frames within a group of pictures (GOP) resulting in the so-called drift error. Scalable video coding schemes should deal with such drift errors while maximizing the delivered video quality. In this paper, we present a multi-layer hierarchical structure for scalable video coding capable of reducing the drift error. Moreover, we propose an optimization to adaptively determine the quantization step size for the base and enhancement layers. In addition, we address the trade-off between the drift error and the coding efficiency. The improvements in terms of average PSNR values when one frame in a GOP is lost are 3.70(dB) when only the base layer is delivered, and 4.78(dB) when both the base and the enhancement layers are delivered. The improvements in presence of burst errors are 3.52(dB) when only the base layer is delivered, and 4.50(dB) when both base and enhancement layers are delivered.
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    Citation - WoS: 6
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    An Island Parallel Harris Hawks Optimization Algorithm
    (Springer London Ltd, 2022) Dokeroglu, Tansel; Sevinc, Ender
    The Harris hawk optimization (HHO) is an impressive optimization algorithm that makes use of unique mathematical approaches. This study proposes an island parallel HHO (IP-HHO) version of the algorithm for optimizing continuous multi-dimensional problems for the first time in the literature. To evaluate the performance of the IP-HHO, thirteen unimodal and multimodal benchmark problems with different dimensions (30, 100, 500, and 1000) are evaluated. The implementation of this novel algorithm took into account the investigation, exploitation, and avoidance of local optima issues effectively. Parallel computation provides a multi-swarm environment for thousands of hawks simultaneously. On all issue cases, we were able to enhance the performance of the sequential version of the HHO algorithm. As the number of processors increases, the suggested IP-HHO method enhances its performance while retaining scalability and improving its computation speed. The IP-HHO method outperforms the other state-of-the-art metaheuristic algorithms on average as the size of the dimensions grows.