Bogazici University Digital Archive: Recent submissions

  • A simulation based decision support system for supply chain management 
    Sancar, Ayşe Ürün. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This study focuses on the improvement of supply chain performance in one of the biggest commodity product manufacturers in Turkey. The aim is to generate a tool that runs as a Decision Support System (DSS) and procides an ...
  • Critical success factors affecting e-commerce activities of small and medium enterprises in Turkey 
    Coşgun, Volkan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Electronic commerce, one of the most popular business phenomena in these years, is creating new opportunities and threats against business. It is redefining customer supplier relationships, business processes, even sometimes ...
  • Finding hidden patterns of hospital infections on the newborn in Turkey: A data mining approach 
    Aksoy, İnci. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The increasing number of hospital infections with considerable morbidity, mortality and economic burden attracts the attention of not only the health-care environment, but also the whole society. In some medical centers, ...
  • Prediction of IMKB sector indices by using artificial neural networks 
    Çevik, Ömer Faruk. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Stock market predictions play an important role for making right investment decisions. Investors can gain very high returns in short time in stock exchanges if correct stocks are chosen or they can lose their earning. ...
  • Usage of current mobile marketing services and evaluation of potential future applications 
    Akın, Berna. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Mobile technology develops and penetration of mobile phones increases all around the world. Developments in mobile communications affected other business areas, like marketing. A new era has been opened with the development ...
  • A web-based group decision support system for supplier evaluation and selection 
    Sürgit, Onur Eren. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Supplier selection is one of the vital processes which have an impact on the competitiveness of firms by affecting their costs, the quality of goods and services produced, and customer satisfaction. Suppliers’ evaluation ...
  • An unsupervised semantic similarity based method for word sense disambiguation 
    Çankaya, Sedat. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    In this thesis, a semantic similarity based unsupervised method for word sense disambiguation is presented. The method tries to disambiguate a target word by calculating a similarity score between the words surrounding the ...
  • Private pension decision support system 
    Dursunluer, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This study provides current and prospective private pension system participants with a web-based interactive decision support system that evaluates private pension funds or pension portfolio performance by using risk ...
  • Analysis and applications of data mining algorithms 
    Doğan, Neslihan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Classification algorithms are the most commonly used Data Mining models that are widely used to extract valuable knowledge from huge amounts of data. Comparing the classification algorithms has been interesting the data ...
  • Readers' expectations, perceptions, preferences and loyalty towards online newspapers 
    Utku, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Online newspaper readership is the most popular activity among the fast growing Turkish Internet users population. Competition is high and every newspaper website has to deliver news every day, every second. On the other ...
  • Development of a task information fit model: A study of relationship between task, information and individual performance 
    Çayır, Sinan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    In the world of Information Technologies the question of finding the best solution for particular business needs is ongoing debate for decades. This debate evolves with the development of technology. Effects of this spiral ...
  • A framework for integrating knowledge management and decision support systems by using knowledge discovery techniques: a case study forecasting financial time series 
    Gülser, Zarife Gonca. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    In a typical decision support environment, the decision-making process deploys asmall portion of the needed information that exists on computers and the structures of thedecision models are highly generalized for each of ...
  • Exploration of mobile service adoption: Special focus on adaptivity 
    Polat, Ebru. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Quick and easy information access is enabled via developing internet technologies and shrinking mobile devices. It is possible to reach any information at any time by use of hand held devices. Hence, services supporting ...
  • A study on sequential internet auctions using agent-based modeling approach 
    Akkaya, Yıldız. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    With widespread use of the Internet, Internet auctions (e-auctions) become more popular in order to trade increasing number of goods as Internet provides both almost perfect market information and an infrastructure for ...
  • Exploring the adoption of technology assisted services in the health care industry 
    Topaçan, Ümit. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    With the rapid development of medical technologies, medical industry benefit from various new emergent tools in order to increase quality and lower health expenditures in their services. Telemedicine is one of the recent ...
  • Consumer attitudes toward and acceptance of personalization attempts in the online environment 
    Albayrak, Serkan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    By the extended use of Internet; technology and dynamic interaction for the first time makes personalization cost effective at large-scale. It also offers the possibility to provide personalized products and services at ...
  • Impacts of service oriented architecture (SOA) on enterprise systems and organizational structures 
    Birekul, İhsan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In today’s fast-paced global economy, organizations need to be focusing on becoming agile and flexible enough support dynamically changing business requirements in this on demand environment. One of the most critical steps ...
  • An association rule-based recommendation engine for online dating sites 
    Özseyhan, Yağız Civan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In this study, the database of a Turkish online dating site is analyzed to reveal patterns in the personal features of matching couples. By using a functionality of data mining, the Association Rule mining, a set of rules ...
  • The impact of speech recognition systems on business effectiveness 
    Aytekin, Nedim Cem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of speech-enabled interactive voice response systems in contact centers, specifically in Turkey. In order to perform this analysis, data was collected from two Turkish ...
  • Test of Elliot Wave theory by time series segmentation algorithms 
    Çağatay, Tamer. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Discovering the patterns of stock prices in a volatile and rapidly-changing market environment is a challenging problem. Elliot Wave theory, a form of technical analysis, attempts to investigate market price movements. The ...

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