M.S. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Combining and ranking semantic information for e-government: a citizen complaints management system 
    Zırtıloğlu, Hande. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2008., 2008.)
    Complaints management is an important application of E-government. Collecting, combining, and ranking citizens’ complaints is necessary for effective management. Existing complaints management applications expect the ...
  • 3D face registration using multiple average models 
    Alyüz, Neşe. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2008., 2008.)
    Three dimensional (3D) face recognition is a frequently used biometric method and its performance is substantially dependent on the accuracy of registration. In this work, we explore registration techniques. Registration ...
  • Process based matchmaking of services 
    Günay, Akın. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2008., 2008.)
    With the increasing popularity of Web services, number of available services on public and business domains grows rapidly in the recent years. This growth in the number of services makes service discovery more important ...
  • Categorized storage structure design and skyline indexing for XML-based product catalogs 
    Kolçak, Ömer Can. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2008., 2008.)
    One of the most important components of e-commerce business is electronic product catalog. In order to provide higher customer satisfaction, the accessibility of products or product groups should be quick and easy. The ...
  • Diffusion tensor field visualization 
    Girgin, Sıla. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2008., 2008.)
    Visualization of diffusion in restricted media, such as the fiber network in human brain, via MR imaging provides a better understanding of the underlying micro structure and allows us to study it in detail. However, 3D ...
  • Software effort estimation using ensemble of neural networks with associative memory 
    Kültür, Yiğit. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2008., 2008.)
    In software industry, most of the budget is used for project implementation. Therefore, each software company has to manage its workforce effectively. Estimating the software effort accurately is essential for workforce ...
  • Precondition and effect matching using SWRL 
    Özadalı, Volkan. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2008., 2008.)
    Service oriented architectures provide more effective and dynamic applications. Using Semantic Web services in service oriented architectures improves interoperability and scalability. A very important aspect of using ...
  • Application of simple recommendation model to diverse populations 
    Delipınar, Şahin. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    In Today’s modern Industrial cities we see that, many people having different cultures share the same settlement and form a typical social complex system. People come from other cities or even foreign countries and form ...
  • Blind spots of qualitative simulators 
    Taşdemir, Nuri. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    Qualitative simulators are important tools for analyzing the possible behaviors of a dynamical system. The technique of qualitative simulation has some theoretical limitations. For some input system models, a qualitative ...
  • An algorithm for software reliability growth model selection 
    Duygulu, Hakan Burak. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    Software plays a critical role in our daily life since it is used in almost every area. Since the software is so important and used widely; it is important to have reliable software. Thus it is very important to use methods ...
  • Using Pade approximation in system modelling and simulation with state-space representation 
    Ceylan, Ülkü (Kolağasıoğlu). (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 1992., 1992.)
    Today, in a variety of application the statistical characteristics of a system response is important in order for analysis and model the systems. In this study, we mainly made an investigation to the system analyzing and ...
  • Environment aware location estimation in cellular networks 
    Türkyılmaz, Onur. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    Location Based Services (LBS) enable personalized services to the mobile subscribers based on their current position and consequently it has received significant attention in both research and industry over the past few ...
  • Multimodal biometric verification and identification using face and hand 
    Sürer, Elif. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    The goal of this thesis is to develop user interfaces that identify and verify legitimate users in real-time due to their biometric characteristics. Face and hand geometry were the biometric identifiers that were used in ...
  • Job scheduling heuristics for grid 
    Erbaş, Mustafa Özgür. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    Grid computing can be expressed as a set of services for sharing data, computation capacity and other resources like special equipment. Improvements in networking enabled grid technology to progress quite fast. Resource ...
  • Efficient two-way quantum finite state automata 
    Yakaryılmaz, Abuzer. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    The discovery of quantum algorithms which are exponentially more e fficient than the best known classical algorithms for similar tasks has spurred researchers to compare the relative powers of the classical and quantum ...
  • Secure skyline querying 
    Zenginler, Tansel. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    The skyline of a set of d-dimensional points contains the points that are not dominated by any other point on these d-dimensions. Querying skyline points and its computation has recently received considerable attention in ...
  • Association rule hiding over data streams 
    Günay, Ufuk. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    This study is about an endeavor towards combining association rule mining over data streams and association rule hiding for traditional databases. Mainly, a system for association rule hiding over data streams will be ...
  • A cultural market model 
    Herdağdelen, Amaç. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
  • Formal security analysis of a secure on-demand routing protocol for AD HOC networks using model checking 
    Önem, Evren. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    An ad hoc network is a self-configuring network of mobile terminals, connected by wireless links and exhibiting nomadic behavior by freely moving within an area. Computing the routes between the terminals in the ad hoc ...
  • Commitment-based analysis of organizations : dealing with inconsistencies 
    Nawaz, Shameem Shah. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    Multiagent organizations are composed of interacting agents. These agents are usually assigned with roles and have clearly defined tasks so that organizational goals are effectively materialized. Formal specifications of ...

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