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Optimal Design Of A Flux Reversal Permanent Magnet Machine As A Wind Turbinegenerator, Majid Ghasemian, Farzad Tahami, Zahra Nasiri-Gheidari Jan 2020

Optimal Design Of A Flux Reversal Permanent Magnet Machine As A Wind Turbinegenerator, Majid Ghasemian, Farzad Tahami, Zahra Nasiri-Gheidari

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Flux reversal permanent magnet generators are well suited for use as wind turbine generators owing to their high torque generation ability and magnetic gear. However, they suffer from poor voltage regulation due to their high winding inductance. In this paper, a design optimization method is proposed for flux reversal generators in wind turbine applications. The proposed method includes a new multiobjective function. Cost, volume of the generator, and mass of the permanent magnet are considered in it independently and simultaneously. Besides the new objective function, the main superiority of this paper compared with published papers is considering winding inductance in …


A Spreadsheet-Based Decision Support System For Examination Timetabling, Mehmet Güray Güler, Ebru Geçi̇ci̇ Jan 2020

A Spreadsheet-Based Decision Support System For Examination Timetabling, Mehmet Güray Güler, Ebru Geçi̇ci̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Examination timetabling is an inevitable problem of educational institutions. Each institution has its own particular limitations; however, the main structure is the same: assigning exams to time slots and classrooms. Several institutions solve the problem manually, but it becomes more difficult every year with increasing numbers of students and limited resources. There are many studies in the literature addressing the examination timetabling problem (ETP) and providing high quality solutions within reasonable amounts of time. Nevertheless, almost none of them can be used in practice since they are not converted into a decision support system (DSS). Commercial DSSs, on the other …


Adaptive Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms (Amabc) For Optimization Ofcomplex Systems, Rabi̇a Korkmaz Tan, Şebnem Bora Jan 2020

Adaptive Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms (Amabc) For Optimization Ofcomplex Systems, Rabi̇a Korkmaz Tan, Şebnem Bora

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Complex systems are large scale and involve numerous uncertainties, which means that such systems tend to be expensive to operate. Further, it is difficult to analyze systems of this kind in a real environment, and for this reason agent-based modeling and simulation techniques are used instead. Based on estimation methods, modeling and simulation techniques establish an output set against the existing input set. However, as the data set in a given complex systems becomes very large, it becomes impossible to use estimation methods to create the output set desired. Therefore, a new mechanism is needed to optimize data sets in …


Mutant Selection By Using Fourier Expansion, Savaş Takan, Tolga Ayav Jan 2020

Mutant Selection By Using Fourier Expansion, Savaş Takan, Tolga Ayav

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Mutation analysis is a widely used technique to evaluate the effectiveness of test cases in both hardware and software testing. The original model is mutated systematically under certain fault assumptions and test cases are checked against the mutants created to see whether the test cases can detect the faults or not. Mutation analysis is usually a computationally intensive task, particularly in finite state machine (FSM) testing due to a possibly huge amount of mutants. Random selection could be a practical reduction method under the assumption that each mutant is identical in terms of the probability of occurrence of its associating …


Variable Gain High Order Sliding Mode Control Approaches For Pmsg Basedvariable Speed Wind Energy Conversion System, Ameen Ullah, Laiq Khan, Qudrat Khan, Saghir Ahmad Jan 2020

Variable Gain High Order Sliding Mode Control Approaches For Pmsg Basedvariable Speed Wind Energy Conversion System, Ameen Ullah, Laiq Khan, Qudrat Khan, Saghir Ahmad

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This research article proposes two different variants of variable gain higher-order sliding mode control (HOSMC) strategy for a variable-speed wind energy conversion system (WECS) based on a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG). The main objective is to extract the maximum wind power with reduced chattering and mechanical stress. The main flaw of the classical sliding mode control (SMC) is the high-frequency switching, called chattering, which is alleviated by employing HOSMC strategies. The control law design is based on a super-twisting algorithm (STA) and a real-twisting algorithm (RTA) with variable gains. The proposed control techniques inherit the property of robustness and …


Energy Efficiency In Cmos Power Amplifier Designs For Ultralow Power Mobile Wireless Communication Systems, Selvakumar Mariappan, Jagadheswaran Rajendran, Norlaili Mohd Noh, Harikrishnan Ramiah, Asrulnizam Abd Manaf Jan 2020

Energy Efficiency In Cmos Power Amplifier Designs For Ultralow Power Mobile Wireless Communication Systems, Selvakumar Mariappan, Jagadheswaran Rajendran, Norlaili Mohd Noh, Harikrishnan Ramiah, Asrulnizam Abd Manaf

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Wireless communication standards keep evolving so that the requirement for high data rate operation can be fulfilled. This leads to the efforts in designing high linearity and low power consumption radio frequency power amplifier (RFPA) to support high data rate signal transmission and preserving battery life. The percentage of the DC power of the transceiver utilized by the power amplifier (PA) depends on the efficiency of the PA, user data rate, propagation conditions, signal modulations, and communication protocols. For example, the PA of a WLAN transceiver consumes 49 % of the overall efficiency from the transmitter. Hence, operating the PA …


A Hybrid Model Based On The Convolutional Neural Network Model And Artificial Bee Colony Or Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Iterative Thresholding For The Detection Of Bruised Apples, Mahmut Heki̇m, Onur Cömert, Kemal Adem Jan 2020

A Hybrid Model Based On The Convolutional Neural Network Model And Artificial Bee Colony Or Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Iterative Thresholding For The Detection Of Bruised Apples, Mahmut Heki̇m, Onur Cömert, Kemal Adem

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, apple images taken with near-infrared (NIR) cameras were classified as bruised and healthy objects using iterative thresholding approaches based on artificial bee colony (ABC) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms supported by a convolutional neural network (CNN) deep learning model. The proposed model includes the following stages: image acquisition, image preprocessing, the segmentation of anatomical regions (stem-calyx regions) to be discarded, the detection of bruised areas on the apple images, and their classification. For this aim, by using the image acquisition platform with a NIR camera, a total of 1200 images at 6 different angles were taken …


Time Series Forecasting On Multivariate Solar Radiation Data Using Deep Learning (Lstm), Murat Ci̇han Sorkun, Özlem Durmaz İncel, Christophe Paoli Jan 2020

Time Series Forecasting On Multivariate Solar Radiation Data Using Deep Learning (Lstm), Murat Ci̇han Sorkun, Özlem Durmaz İncel, Christophe Paoli

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Energy management is an emerging problem nowadays and utilization of renewable energy sources is an efficient solution. Solar radiation is an important source for electricity generation. For effective utilization, it is important to know precisely the amount from different sources and at different horizons: minutes, hours, and days. Depending on the horizon, two main classes of methods can be used to forecast the solar radiation: statistical time series forecasting methods for short to midterm horizons and numerical weather prediction methods for medium- to long-term horizons. Although statistical time series forecasting methods are utilized in the literature, there are a limited …


A New Biometric Identity Recognition System Based On A Combination Of Superior Features In Finger Knuckle Print Images, Hadis Heidari, Abdolah Chalechale Jan 2020

A New Biometric Identity Recognition System Based On A Combination Of Superior Features In Finger Knuckle Print Images, Hadis Heidari, Abdolah Chalechale

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Biometric methods are among the safest and most secure solutions for identity recognition and verification. One of the biometric features with sufficient uniqueness for identity recognition is the finger knuckle print (FKP). This paper presents a new method of identity recognition and verification based on FKP features, where feature extraction is combined with an entropy-based pattern histogram and a set of statistical texture features. The genetic algorithm (GA) is then used to find the superior features among those extracted. After extracting superior features, a support vector machine-based feedback scheme is used to improve the performance of the biometric system. Two …


Reliability Comparisons Of Mobile Network Operators: An Experimental Case Study From A Crowdsourced Dataset, Engi̇n Zeydan, Ahmet Yildirim Jan 2020

Reliability Comparisons Of Mobile Network Operators: An Experimental Case Study From A Crowdsourced Dataset, Engi̇n Zeydan, Ahmet Yildirim

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

It is of great interest for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to know how well their network infrastructure performance behaves in different geographical regions of their operating country compared to their horizontal competitors. However, traditional network monitoring and measurement methods of network infrastructure use limited numbers of measurement points that are insufficient for detailed analysis and expensive to scale using an internal workforce. On the other hand, the abundance of crowdsourced content can engender various unforeseen opportunities for MNOs to cope with this scaling problem. This paper investigates end-to-end reliability and packet loss (PL) performance comparisons of MNOs using a previously …


Pulse Width Modulation Control Of Fifteen-Switch Inverter For Four Ac Loads, Gaurav Goyal, Mohan Aware Jan 2020

Pulse Width Modulation Control Of Fifteen-Switch Inverter For Four Ac Loads, Gaurav Goyal, Mohan Aware

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In many studies in the literature, various topologies with reduced switch count are proposed. With the use of these topologies, a lower number of semiconductor switches are required to produce a desired set of voltage. This in turn reduces the size and cost of the inverter. This paper proposes a new reduced switch count topology named "fifteen-switch inverter (FSI)" which is experimentally verified. The FSI has five switches in one leg and have three legs for three phases. It is capable of controlling four three-phase ac loads. In this proposed inverter topology, fifteen switches are used against the twenty four …


Performance Improvement Of Induction Motor Drives With Model-Based Predictive Torque Control, Fati̇h Korkmaz Jan 2020

Performance Improvement Of Induction Motor Drives With Model-Based Predictive Torque Control, Fati̇h Korkmaz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

One of the most important advantages of using modeling and simulation software in design and control engineering is the ability to predict system behavior within specified conditions. This paper presents a novel error vector-based control algorithm that aims to reduce torque ripples predicting flux and torque errors in a conventional vector-controlled induction motor. For this purpose, a new control model has been developed that envisages flux change by applying probabilistic space vectors' torque and flux control. In the proposed predictive control algorithm, flux and torque errors are calculated for each candidate voltage vector. Thus, the optimal output voltage vector that …


A Preliminary Survey On Software Testing Practices In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Region Of Pakistan, Bushra Latif, Tauseef Rana Jan 2020

A Preliminary Survey On Software Testing Practices In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Region Of Pakistan, Bushra Latif, Tauseef Rana

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Conducted to ensure the quality of software products, the software testing process has a great significance in the software development and is the vital step of the verification and validation process. For conforming a software feature to the end user requirements, organizations rely on extensive testing procedures. Despite being the key factor, many of the software development industries/companies do not define/follow a systematic testing process. In this paper, we analyze/learn from the conducted surveys in the past and formulate a questionnaire for a survey in the northern region of Pakistan. To the best of our knowledge, no such survey has …


Adaptive Blind Equalization For A Mimo Chaotic Communication System, Gökçen Çeti̇nel, Cabi̇r Vural Jan 2020

Adaptive Blind Equalization For A Mimo Chaotic Communication System, Gökçen Çeti̇nel, Cabi̇r Vural

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

There exist few blind solutions for chaotic MIMO channel equalization. In this work, a chaotic MIMO channel equalization framework is proposed. The objective function to be minimized in the proposed solution is obtained by adopting the objective function developed for chaotic SISO channel equalization. Furthermore, an optimum filter that minimizes the proposed cost function is designed to recover chaotic input signals assuming that the channel is known. The stationary point of the adaptive solution is equal to the optimal filter if the adaptive filter coefficients change sufficiently slowly. The adaptive solution is contrasted with the optimum filter in terms of …


Towards Human Activity Recognition For Ubiquitous Health Care Using Data From Awaist-Mounted Smartphone, Umar Zia, Wajeeha Khalil, Salabat Khan, Iftikhar Ahmad, Naeem Khatak Jan 2020

Towards Human Activity Recognition For Ubiquitous Health Care Using Data From Awaist-Mounted Smartphone, Umar Zia, Wajeeha Khalil, Salabat Khan, Iftikhar Ahmad, Naeem Khatak

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Understanding human activities is a newly emerging paradigm that is greatly involved in developing ubiquitous health care (u-Health) systems. The aim of these systems is to seamlessly gather knowledge about the patient?s health and, after collecting knowledge, make suggestions to the patient according to his/her health profile. For this purpose, one of the most important ubiquitous communication trends is the smartphone, which has drawn the attention of both professionals and caregivers for monitoring the aging population, childcare, fall detection, and cognitive impairment. Recognizing human actions in a ubiquitous environment is very challenging and researchers have extensively investigated different methods to …


A Multibeam Subarrayed Time-Modulated Linear Array, Uğur Yeşi̇lyurt, İhsan Kanbaz, Ertuğrul Aksoy Jan 2020

A Multibeam Subarrayed Time-Modulated Linear Array, Uğur Yeşi̇lyurt, İhsan Kanbaz, Ertuğrul Aksoy

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In conventional time-modulated arrays (TMAs), because of the usage of the RF-switch, harmonics are generated at multiples of the modulation frequency. In this study, the synthesis of time-modulated arrays has been analyzed for cognitive radio (CR) systems, in which these harmonics are suitably exploited for more efficient utilization of the spectrum. In order to accomplish the desired pattern at requested harmonic frequencies, a new excitation strategy with sinusoidal signals is proposed. The use of sinusoidal waveforms creates independent beams, allowing independent steering capability. Moreover, by utilizing the subarray structure, it is possible to have a smaller number of excitation functions …


Robust Optimal Operation Of Smart Distribution Grids With Renewable Basedgenerators, Omid Zare, Sadjad Galvani, Murtaza Farsadi Jan 2020

Robust Optimal Operation Of Smart Distribution Grids With Renewable Basedgenerators, Omid Zare, Sadjad Galvani, Murtaza Farsadi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Modern distribution systems are equipped with various distributed energy resources (DERs) because of the importance of local generation. These distribution systems encounter more and more uncertainties because of the ever-increasing use of renewable energies. Other sources of uncertainty, such as load variation and system components? failure, will intensify the unpredictable nature of modern distribution systems. Integrating energy storage systems into distribution grids can play a role as a flexible bidirectional source to accommodate issues from constantly varying loads and renewable resources. The overall functionality of these modern distribution systems is enhanced using communication and computational abilities in smart grid frameworks. …


Dynamic Software Rejuvenation In Web Services: A Whale Optimizationalgorithm-Based Approach, Kimia Rezaei Kalantari, Ali Ebrahimnejad, Homayun Motameni Jan 2020

Dynamic Software Rejuvenation In Web Services: A Whale Optimizationalgorithm-Based Approach, Kimia Rezaei Kalantari, Ali Ebrahimnejad, Homayun Motameni

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, we suggest a method for determining the restarting time for web services to increase availability, known as rejuvenation. We consider different parameters such as number of users, maximum service request number, response time, and throughput of a web service to determine its restarting time. Software rejuvenation is an effective technique to counteract software aging in continuously running applications such as web service-based systems. In these systems, web services are allocated based on the needs of the receivers and facilities of servers. One of the challenges while assigning web services is selecting the appropriate server to reduce faults. …


An Automated Eye Disease Recognition System From Visual Content Of Facial Imagesusing Machine Learning Techniques, Ashrafi Akram, Rameswar Debnath Jan 2020

An Automated Eye Disease Recognition System From Visual Content Of Facial Imagesusing Machine Learning Techniques, Ashrafi Akram, Rameswar Debnath

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Many eye diseases like cataracts, trachoma, or corneal ulcer can cause vision problems. Progression of these eye diseases can only be prevented if they are recognized accurately at the early stage. Visually observable symptoms differ a lot among these eye diseases. However, a wide variety of symptoms is necessary to be analyzed for the accurate detection of eye diseases. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to provide an automated eye disease recognition system using visually observable symptoms applying digital image processing techniques and machine learning techniques such as deep convolution neural network (DCNN) and support vector machine (SVM). …


Correlation Coefficients Of Pythagorean Hesitant Fuzzy Sets And Their Applicationto Radar Lpi Performance Evaluation, Cheng Xiu Yang, Qianzhe Wang, Weidong Peng, Shaoting Pei Jan 2020

Correlation Coefficients Of Pythagorean Hesitant Fuzzy Sets And Their Applicationto Radar Lpi Performance Evaluation, Cheng Xiu Yang, Qianzhe Wang, Weidong Peng, Shaoting Pei

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Evaluating low probability of intercept (LPI) performance is the first step to design parameters and arrange radar resources. In the evaluation process it is hard to rely on the intercept receiver?s working scenarios and operating parameters. On the other hand, indicators that affect the LPI performance of radiating side are difficult to consider comprehensively. Thus, building an effective evaluation system is crucial. This research considers the natural parameters of radar extracted from a radiating scenario. Subsequently, a number of criteria are selected, including spatial, time, frequency domain, polarization status, energy status, and waveform features. A multidomain radar LPI performance evaluation …


Piezoresistive Disposable Weight Sensor With Increased Sensitivity, Kuter Erdi̇l, Tuğçe Ayraç, Ömer Gökalp Akcan, Yi̇ği̇t Dağhan Gökdel Jan 2020

Piezoresistive Disposable Weight Sensor With Increased Sensitivity, Kuter Erdi̇l, Tuğçe Ayraç, Ömer Gökalp Akcan, Yi̇ği̇t Dağhan Gökdel

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This study presents the design, simulation, implementation, and experimental characterization of a paperbased perforated disposable weight sensor system with a double piezoresistive layer. The demonstrated system is designed to achieve highly sensitive weight sensing operations with low-cost materials. For that purpose, the main fabrication material of the proposed disposable sensor is selected as a 289 $\mu$m thick Strathmore 400 series Bristol paper. Approximately 48 $\mu$m thick piezoresistive graphite paste is coated onto both sides of the paper-based cantilever beam with the aim of acquiring more sensitive weight-sensing capability. Additionally, the proposed paper-based structure has rows of closely spaced perforations at …


Prediction Of Railway Switch Point Failures By Artificial Intelligence Methods, Burak Arslan, Hasan Ti̇ryaki̇ Jan 2020

Prediction Of Railway Switch Point Failures By Artificial Intelligence Methods, Burak Arslan, Hasan Ti̇ryaki̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In recent years, railway transport has been preferred intensively in local and intercity freight and passenger transport. For this reason, it is of utmost importance that railway lines are operated in an uninterrupted and safe manner. In order to carry out continuous operation, all systems must continue to operate with maximum availability. In this study, data were collected from switch motors, which are the important equipment of railways, and the related equipment and these data were evaluated with sector experience and the results related to the failure status of the switch points were revealed. The obtained results were processed with …


Satire Identification In Turkish News Articles Based On Ensemble Of Classifiers, Aytuğ Onan, Mansur Alp Toçoğlu Jan 2020

Satire Identification In Turkish News Articles Based On Ensemble Of Classifiers, Aytuğ Onan, Mansur Alp Toçoğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Social media and microblogging platforms generally contain elements of figurative and nonliteral language, including satire. The identification of figurative language is a fundamental task for sentiment analysis. It will not be possible to obtain sentiment analysis methods with high classification accuracy if elements of figurative language have not been properly identified. Satirical text is a kind of figurative language, in which irony and humor have been utilized to ridicule or criticize an event or entity. Satirical news is a pervasive issue on social media platforms, which can be deceptive and harmful. This paper presents an ensemble scheme for satirical news …


Convolutional Auto Encoders For Sentence Representation Generation, Ali̇ Mert Ceylan, Vecdi̇ Aytaç Jan 2020

Convolutional Auto Encoders For Sentence Representation Generation, Ali̇ Mert Ceylan, Vecdi̇ Aytaç

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, we have proposed an alternative approach for sentence modeling problem. The difficulty of the choice of answer, the semantically related questions and the lack of syntactic closeness of the answers give rise to the difficulty of selecting the answer. The deep learning field has recently achieved a pivotal success in semantic analysis, machine translation, and text summaries. The essence of this work, inspired by the human orthographic processing mechanism and using multiple convolution filters with pre-rendered 2-Dimension (2D) representations of sentences, input or output size is to learn the basic features of the language without concerns. For …


Crash Course Learning: An Automated Approach To Simulation-Driven Lidar-Basedtraining Of Neural Networks For Obstacle Avoidance In Mobile Robotics, Stanko Kruzic, Josip Music, Mirjana Bonkovic, Frantisek Duchon Jan 2020

Crash Course Learning: An Automated Approach To Simulation-Driven Lidar-Basedtraining Of Neural Networks For Obstacle Avoidance In Mobile Robotics, Stanko Kruzic, Josip Music, Mirjana Bonkovic, Frantisek Duchon

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper proposes and implements a self-supervised simulation-driven approach to data collection used for training of perception-based shallow neural networks for mobile robot obstacle avoidance. In the approach, a 2D LiDAR sensor was used as an information source for training neural networks. The paper analyzes neural network performance in terms of numbers of layers and neurons, as well as the amount of data needed for reliable robot operation. Once the best architecture is identified, it is trained using only data obtained in simulation and then implemented and tested on a real robot (Turtlebot 2) in several simulations and real-world scenarios. …


Measurement Based Threat Aware Drone Base Station Deployment, Alper Akarsu, Tolga Gi̇ri̇ci̇ Jan 2020

Measurement Based Threat Aware Drone Base Station Deployment, Alper Akarsu, Tolga Gi̇ri̇ci̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Unmanned aerial vehicles are gaining importance with many civilian and military applications. Especially the surveillance, search/rescue, and military operations may have to be carried out in extremely constrained environments. In such scenarios, drone base stations (DBSs) have to provide communication services to the people at the ground. The ground users may have no access to the global positioning system (GPS); therefore, their locations have to be estimated using alternative techniques. Besides there may be threats in the environment, such as shooters. In this work, we address the problem of optimal DBS deployment under the aforementioned constraints. We propose a novel …


Comparisons Of Extreme Learning Machine And Backpropagation-Based I-Vector Approach For Speaker Identification, Musab T S Al-Kaltakchi, Raid Rafi Omar Al-Nima, Mohammed A M Abdullah Jan 2020

Comparisons Of Extreme Learning Machine And Backpropagation-Based I-Vector Approach For Speaker Identification, Musab T S Al-Kaltakchi, Raid Rafi Omar Al-Nima, Mohammed A M Abdullah

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The extreme learning machine (ELM) is one of the machine learning applications used for regression and classification systems. In this paper, an extended comparison between an ELM and the backpropagation neural network (BPNN)-based i-vector is given in terms of a closed-set speaker identification task using 120 speakers from the TIMIT database. The system is composed of the mel frequency cepstal coefficient (MFCC) and power normalized cepstal coefficient (PNCC) approaches to form the feature extraction stage, while the cepstral mean variance normalization (CMVN) and feature warping are applied in order to mitigate the linear channel effect. The system is utilized with …


Analysis Of Acoustic Sensor Placement For Pd Location In Power Transformer, Khairul Nadiah Khalid, Muhammad Nur Khairul Hafizi Rohani, Baharuddin Ismail, Muzamir Isa, Chang Yii Chai, Wan Nurul Auni Wan Muhammad Jan 2020

Analysis Of Acoustic Sensor Placement For Pd Location In Power Transformer, Khairul Nadiah Khalid, Muhammad Nur Khairul Hafizi Rohani, Baharuddin Ismail, Muzamir Isa, Chang Yii Chai, Wan Nurul Auni Wan Muhammad

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Partial discharge (PD) is an abnormal activity that occurs in high-voltage components, such as power cables, switchgear, machines, and power transformers. Such activity needs to be diagnosed for the equipment to last longer as PD could harm the insulation and potentially lead to asset destruction from time to time. Moving one or more externally mounted acoustic sensors to different locations on the transformer tank is commonly used in order to detect and locate PD signal occurring in the power transformer. However, this procedure may lead to less accuracy in PD identification. Therefore, this research paper presents an analysis of acoustic …


Comparative Analysis Of Classification Techniques For Network Fault Management, Mohammed Madi, Fidaa Jarghon, Yousef Fazea, Omar Almomani, Adeeb Saaidah Jan 2020

Comparative Analysis Of Classification Techniques For Network Fault Management, Mohammed Madi, Fidaa Jarghon, Yousef Fazea, Omar Almomani, Adeeb Saaidah

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Network troubleshooting is a significant process. Many studies were conducted about it. The first step in the troubleshooting procedures is represented in collecting information. It's collected in order to identify the problems. Syslog messages which are sent by almost all network devices include a massive amount of data that concern the network problems. Based on several studies, it was found that analyzing syslog data (which) can be a guideline for network problems and their causes. The detection of network problems can become more efficient if the detected problems have been classified based on the network layers. Classifying syslog data requires …


Combining Metadata And Co-Citations For Recommending Related Papers, Shahbaz Ahmad, Muhammad Tanvir Afzal Jan 2020

Combining Metadata And Co-Citations For Recommending Related Papers, Shahbaz Ahmad, Muhammad Tanvir Afzal

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Identification of relevant documents is performed to keep track of the state-of-the-art methods and relies on research paper recommender systems. The proposed approaches for these systems can be classified into categories like content-based, collaborative filtering-based, and bibliographic information-based approaches. The content-based approaches exploit the full text of articles and provide more promising results than other approaches. However, most content is not freely available because of subscription requirements. Therefore, the scope of content-based approaches is limited. In such scenarios, the best possible alternative could be the exploitation of other openly available resources. Therefore, this research explores the possible use of metadata …