Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü: Recent submissions

  • Optimal assignment as a location based service in outsourced databases 
    Büyükkayhan, Ahmet Salih. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    With the growth of mobile devices that have positioning capabilities, location based services promises great opportunities. Moreover to this, service providers would like to focus on their services instead of managing ...
  • Contract based cooperation for ambient intelligence : proposing, entering and executing contracts autonomously 
    Aydemir, Fatma Başak. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    As we are introduced with the more complex, high technology devices, the need to smoothly integrate these new devices to our lives grows. In order to satisfy this need, a new kind of pervasive and ubiquitous intelligence, ...
  • Developing a concept extraction system for Turkish 
    Uzun-Per, Meryem. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    In recent years, due to growing vast amount of available electronic media and data, the necessity of analyzing electronic documents automatically is increased. In order to assess if a document contains valuable information ...
  • Incremental neural network construction algorithms for training multilayer perceptrons 
    Aran, Oya. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2002., 2002.)
    The problem of determining the architecture of a multilayer perceptron together with the disadvantages of the standard backpropagation algorithm, directed the research towards algorithms that determine not only the weights ...
  • Verification of a multicore programming library 
    Deniz, Etem. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    As the demand for high performance software is constantly increasing, the need to develop multicore software is increasing, too. This results in degraded reliability of software and increased veri cation e ort since multicore ...
  • Planning agile software projects with reduced guess estimation 
    Kocatürk, Buğra. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    Agile Project Management (APM) is the method of a series of commonly used project management approaches for better handling of uncertainty and unpredictability. In large portion of software projects, accurate planning of ...
  • Blind docking simulations of benzothiazoles on triosephosphate isomerase 
    Ural, Gülgün. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    Selective inhibition of the activity of the glycolytic enzyme triosephosphate isomerase from Trypanosoma cruzi (TcTIM) as opposed to human TIM (hTIM) has been critical for drug design studies on Chagas disease. The aim of ...
  • Utilizing wWiMAX Mesh model for efficient IPTV transmission 
    Uluğ, Seçkin. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    In this thesis, an alternative model is proposed for the distribution of IPTV in wireless environment. Considering the data rate requirements of the IPTV service and challenges in distribution of the service due to wireless ...
  • Computer vision based multi-lingual fingerspelling recognition 
    Kındıroğlu, Ahmet Alp. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    In this thesis, we focus on the problem of computer vision based automatic signlanguage recognition and its related subtasks. The study focuses on the recognition of ngerspelling gestures, which are a subset of sign ...
  • An information theoretical approach to functional connectivity in brain 
    Budur, Emrah. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    Mental disorders are usually associated with functional abnormalities of brain that are revealed by behavioral symptoms. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), in particular, is well known to be a common behavioral ...
  • Mathematical modeling and analysis of wireless mesh network scheduling 
    Genç, Gaye. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    Due to the increasing demand for high-speed Internet access, wireless mesh networks (WMN) have become a popular choice for their ease of deployment and ubiquity. Although extensive research has been done in the literature ...
  • A drawing tool for protein interaction maps in Kohn notation 
    Edes, Mine. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    Cancer is one of the most lethal and common diseases of today. Causes of cancer have been studied widely as it is an essential part of cancer research. Cancer is mainly caused by malfunctioning of the tumor suppressor ...
  • Computer vision-based human action recognition via keypoint tracking 
    Kara, Yunus Emre. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    Computer vision-based human action recognition is a highly active research area which has many application areas including security, surveillance, assisted living, and entertainment. In this thesis, a new system for computer ...
  • Heuristic algorithms for scheduling in centralized cognitive radio networks 
    Eraslan, Başak. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2011., 2011.)
    In this thesis we propose heuristic scheduling algorithms for the centralized, time slotted cognitive radio network (CRN) model in [1]. In the considered CRN scheme, a frequency f and time slot t pair constitutes a resource ...
  • An extended semantic analyzer for ADA'95 
    Karahan, Mehmet Özgür. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institue for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2001., 2001.)
    An extended semantic rule is a rule which we expect a program in a particular language to obey in addition to the standard semantic rules enforced by the compiler for the language. Such extended semantic rules may be ...
  • Statistical relationship between the North Atlantic Oscillation and the climate of Turkey 
    Turp, Mustafa Tufan. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2010., 2010.)
    Over the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, roughly a dozen distinct teleconnection patterns can be identified. One of the most prominent is the North Atlantic Oscillation, which refers to changes in the ...
  • ECG arrhythmia classification using class-modular MLP 
    Vural, Haydar. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2010., 2010.)
    ECG (Electrocardiography) is a graphical signal of electrical activity recorded from electrodes on the body surface. It is one of the most important biosignal used by cardiologists for diagnostic purposes. In this study, ...
  • Secure spectrum sensing for satellite assisted cognitive radio networks 
    Ersöz, Seda Demirağ. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2010., 2010.)
    In this thesis study, we propose a security structure for spectrum sensing and decision scheme for a satellite assisted Cognitive Radio Network (CRN). The main goal of Cognitive Radio (CR) is to provide agility in the ...
  • Mixture of experts learning in automated theorem proving 
    Erkek, Cemal Acar. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2010., 2010.)
    The main challenge of automated theorem proving is to find a way to shorten the search process. Therefore using a good heuristic method is essential. Although there are several heuristics that improve the search techniques, ...
  • Asymmetries of men and women in selecting partner 
    Başar, Ömer. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2010., 2010.)
    People seek their love partner throughout their lives. As the internet grows rapidly, the traditional mate finding ways start to change. The new trend of finding a mate is to join the online dating services. We work on the ...