Ph.D. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Reception modeling and achievable rate analysis of sphere - to - sphere molecular communication via diffusion 
    Genç, Gaye. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2018., 2018.)
    As a widely acknowledged information transfer method in the nanonetworking domain, Molecular Communication via Diffusion (MCvD) presents many advantages as well as challenges. In order to assess the capabilities and ...
  • Performance and cost efficient reliability framework for multicore architectures 
    Arslan, Sanem. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2017., 2017.)
    Modern architectures become more vulnerable to soft errors with technology scaling. Enabling fault tolerance capabilities on all cache structures in a system is ine cient in terms of performance and power consumption. In ...
  • Privacy managment in online social networks 
    Kökciyan, Nadin. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2017., 2017.)
    People are willing to share their personal information in social networks. The users are allowed to create and share content about themselves and others. When multiple entities start distributing content without a control, ...
  • Generative vs. discriminative models for vision based hand gesture recognition 
    Keskin, Cem. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2017., 2017.)
    In this thesis, we focus on the problem of modelling sequential data, and particularly hand gestures. We approach the modelling problem using automata theory and theory of formal languages, which allows us to determine the ...
  • New dynamic group key agreement protocols and their formal analysis and applications 
    Ermiş, Orhan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2017., 2017.)
    The essence of dynamic group key agreement protocols is to help compute a secure key for a group communication with a dynamic set of participants in distributed systems. Dynamic group key agreement protocols are expected ...
  • On the evolutionary coupling and its measurement 
    Kırbaş, Serkan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2017., 2017.)
    Evolutionary Coupling (EC) is the implicit relationship between the artifacts or parts of the software system that are frequently changed together during evolution of a system. Understanding the EC in software systems is ...
  • Three dimensional face recognition 
    Gökberk, Berk. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2006., 2006.)
    In this thesis, we attack the problem of identifying humans from their three dimensional facial characteristics. For this purpose, a complete 3D face recognition system is developed. We divide the whole system into ...
  • Novel models for credit card fraud detection 
    Kültür, Yiğit. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2017., 2017.)
    Financial institutions attach great importance to credit card fraud detection, as a natural consequence of the multi-billion dollar annual losses incurred due to credit card fraud. Rule based systems have been commonly ...
  • Developing new approaches for multi-platform and multi-individual genomic sequence assembly 
    Kavak, Pınar. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2017., 2017.)
    High throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies generate huge amount of data with very low cost, which prompted research on algorithm development to analyze large DNA sequence datasets. In this thesis, we propose new solutions ...
  • Computational models of attention competition 
    Çetin, Uzay. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2017., 2017.)
    In the new digital age, information has grown increasingly abundant and immediately available. Thus it is easy to see that the scarcest resource of today is not information but rather attention. We design several complex ...
  • Digital map and GNSS fusion to enhance localization for intelligent vehicle applications 
    Peker, Ali Ufuk. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis aims to enhance vehicle localization through the fusion of digital maps and vehicular communication. A particle lter based algorithm for fusing global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver, odometer, and ...
  • Security and privacy of RFID protocols 
    Akgün, Mete. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis studies security and privacy issues of Radio Frequency Identi cation (RFID) technology that enhances ubiquitous computing environment. Privacy is one of main issues to adopt RFID technology in daily use. Due ...
  • Green networking: from conventional to next generation heterogeneous cellular networks 
    Yiğitel, M. Aykut. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2016., 2016.)
    Increasing energy costs drive the telecommunication service providers to become highly interested in energy efficient operations. The exponential growth in mobile data exchange which is further augmented by the rapid ...
  • Filtering based defense mechanisms against DDOS attacks for core networks 
    Kalkan, Kübra. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2016., 2016.)
    In this thesis, we present filtering based defense mechanisms against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks for core networks. Initially, several filtering techniques are analyzed and their advantages and disadvantages ...
  • Job scheduling for heterogeneous supercomputers 
    Soner, Seren. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis addresses the job scheduling problem for heterogeneous supercomputers where accelerators such as GPGPUs or co-processors are employed. On homogeneous supercomputers, the problem of scheduling user jobs to the ...
  • Player profiling and analysis of abusive behavior in social games 
    Balcı, Mehmet Koray. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2016., 2016.)
    Online multiplayer games create new social platforms, with their own etiquette, social rules of conduct and ways of expression. What counts as aggressive and abusing behavior may change depending on the platform, but most ...
  • Quality-of-service-aware multicast routing for multimedia applications in mobile ad hoc networks 
    Bür, Kaan. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2006., 2006.)
    The conceptual shift in the expectations of wireless users towards multimedia andgroup-oriented computing has a significant impact on today̕s networks in terms of needfor mobility, quality of service (QoS) and multicast ...
  • A bayesian approach to the clustering problem with application to gene expression analysis 
    Fidaner, Işık Barış. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis investigates methods for extraction of information from gene expression time series data. These time series provide indirect measurements about the underlying biological mechanisms, hence their analysis heavily ...
  • Automatic synthetic benchmark generation for multicore systems 
    Deniz, Etem. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2015., 2015.)
    We present a novel automated multicore benchmark synthesis framework for multicore systems including CPUs and GPUs with characterization and generation components to speed up architectural simulation of modern architectures. ...
  • Priority scheduling for heterogeneous workloads in computing clusters 
    Çavdar, Derya. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2015., 2015.)
    Nowadays, large computing clusters constantly strive for an optimal tradeo between resource e ciency and performance. In this thesis, we are concerned with the e cient use of system resources and we also aim to improve ...

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