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Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process And Binary Particle Swarm Optimization Formultiobjective Plug-In Electric Vehicles Charging Coordination With Time-Of-Usetariff, Junaid Bin Fakhrul Islam, Mir Toufikur Rahman, Hazlie Mokhlis, Mohamadariff Othman, Tengku Fiaz Tengku Mohmed Noor Izam, Hasmaini Mohamad Jan 2020

Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process And Binary Particle Swarm Optimization Formultiobjective Plug-In Electric Vehicles Charging Coordination With Time-Of-Usetariff, Junaid Bin Fakhrul Islam, Mir Toufikur Rahman, Hazlie Mokhlis, Mohamadariff Othman, Tengku Fiaz Tengku Mohmed Noor Izam, Hasmaini Mohamad

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are gaining popularity as an alternative vehicle in the past few years. The charging activities of PEVs impose extra electrical load on residential distribution system as well as increasing operational cost. There are multiple conflicting requirements and constraints during the charging activities. Therefore, this paper presents multiobjective PEV charging coordination based on weighted sum technique to provide simultaneous benefits to the power utilities and PEV users. The optimization problem of the proposed coordination is solved using binary particle swam optimization. The objectives of the coordination are to (i) minimize daily power loss, (ii) maximize power delivery …


Low Harmonic 12-Pulse Rectifier With A Circulating Current Shaping Circuit, Jingfang Wang, Xuliang Yao, Qi Guan, Changji Deng, Shiyan Yang Jan 2020

Low Harmonic 12-Pulse Rectifier With A Circulating Current Shaping Circuit, Jingfang Wang, Xuliang Yao, Qi Guan, Changji Deng, Shiyan Yang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper proposes a four-star 12-pulse diode rectifier with a circulating current shaping circuit (CCSC) on the DC side to decrease the input current harmonics effectively. The type of circulating current that can eliminate the input current harmonics is analysed and its waveform parameters are derived. The effects of triangular circulating current on the harmonics of the input current are analysed, and the harmonic suppression mechanism of the triangular circulating current is revealed. This scheme has excellent harmonic suppression capability, and the capacity of CCSC is only 2.35% of output power of the 12-pulse rectifier. Thus, this scheme is cost …


Deep Temporal Motion Descriptor (Dtmd) For Human Action Recognition, Nudrat Nida, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Aun Irtaza, Sergio A. Velastin Jan 2020

Deep Temporal Motion Descriptor (Dtmd) For Human Action Recognition, Nudrat Nida, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Aun Irtaza, Sergio A. Velastin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Spatiotemporal features have significant importance in human action recognition, as they provide the actor's shape and motion characteristics specific to each action class. This paper presents a new deep spatiotemporal human action representation, the deep temporal motion descriptor (DTMD), which shares the attributes of holistic and deep learned features. To generate the DTMD descriptor, the actor?s silhouettes are gathered into single motion templates by applying motion history images. These motion templates capture the spatiotemporal movements of the actor and compactly represent the human actions using a single 2D template. Then deep convolutional neural networks are used to compute discriminative deep …


Peak Shaving And Technical Loss Minimization In Distribution Grids: Atime-Of-Use-Based Pricing Approach For Distribution Service Tariffs, Osman Bülent Tör, Mahmut Erkut Cebeci̇, Mehmet Koç, Saaed Teimourzadeh, Deren Atli, Simona Vasilica Oprea, Adela Bara Jan 2020

Peak Shaving And Technical Loss Minimization In Distribution Grids: Atime-Of-Use-Based Pricing Approach For Distribution Service Tariffs, Osman Bülent Tör, Mahmut Erkut Cebeci̇, Mehmet Koç, Saaed Teimourzadeh, Deren Atli, Simona Vasilica Oprea, Adela Bara

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Deployment of time-of-use (ToU)-based retail energy tariffs (i.e. tariff for energy consumption- not the tariff for distribution service) is a common practice to incentivize consumers to use more energy at off-peak times. Distribution service tariffs (DSTs) are usually time-independent, which results in insensitivity of load to the distribution service cost. However, DST can also be time-dependent, which is studied in this paper. This study presents a methodology to address the effect of ToU pricing (i.e. time-dependent) of DSTs on peak shaving and technical loss minimization in power distribution grids. Here, the main focus is to assess the level of consumers' …


The Impact Of Text Preprocessing On The Prediction Of Review Ratings, Muhi̇tti̇n Işik, Hasan Dağ Jan 2020

The Impact Of Text Preprocessing On The Prediction Of Review Ratings, Muhi̇tti̇n Işik, Hasan Dağ

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

With the increase of e-commerce platforms and online applications, businessmen are looking to have a rating and review system through which they can easily reveal the feelings of customers related to their products and services. It is undeniable from the statistics that online ratings and reviews attract new customers as well as increase sales by means of providing confidence, ratification, opinions, comparisons, merchant credibility, etc. Although considerable research has been devoted to the sentiment analysis for review classification, rather less attention has been paid to the text preprocessing which is a crucial step in opinion mining especially if convenient preprocessing …


Deep Neural Network Based M-Learning Model For Predicting Mobile Learners'performance, Muhammad Adnan, Asad Habib, Jawad Ashraf, Shafaq Mussadiq, Arsalan Ali Jan 2020

Deep Neural Network Based M-Learning Model For Predicting Mobile Learners'performance, Muhammad Adnan, Asad Habib, Jawad Ashraf, Shafaq Mussadiq, Arsalan Ali

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The use of deep learning (DL) techniques for mobile learning is an emerging field aimed at developing methods for finding mobile learners' learning behavior and exploring important learning features. The learning features (learning time, learning location, repetition rate, content types, learning performance, learning time duration, and so on) act as fuel to DL algorithms based on which DL algorithms can classify mobile learners into different learning groups. In this study, a powerful and efficient m-learning model is proposed based on DL techniques to model the learning process of m-learners. The proposed m-learning model determines the impact of independent learning features …


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 …


Feature Points-Based Image Registration Between Satellite Imagery And Aerialimages Of Agricultural Land, Mohsin Abbas, Sajid Saleem, Fazli Subhan, Abdul Bais Jan 2020

Feature Points-Based Image Registration Between Satellite Imagery And Aerialimages Of Agricultural Land, Mohsin Abbas, Sajid Saleem, Fazli Subhan, Abdul Bais

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Rapid advancement in remote sensing sensors has resulted in an enormous increase in the use of satellite imagery (SI) and images taken from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wide range of remote sensing applications. These applications include urban planning, environment monitoring, map updating, change detection, and precision agriculture. This paper focuses on an agricultural application of SI and UAV images. SI-UAV images possess high temporal, textural, and intensity differences due to rapid changes in agricultural crops with the passage of time. Feature points such as scale invariant feature transform (SIFT), oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB), and speeded-up robust …


Implicit Relation-Based Question Answering To Answer Simple Questions Overdbpedia, Maryam Jamehshourani, Afsaneh Fatemi, Mohammadali Nematbakhsh Jan 2020

Implicit Relation-Based Question Answering To Answer Simple Questions Overdbpedia, Maryam Jamehshourani, Afsaneh Fatemi, Mohammadali Nematbakhsh

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

RDF-based question answering systems give users the capability of natural language querying over RDF data. In order to respond to natural language questions, it is necessary that the main concept of the question be interpreted correctly, and then it is mapped to RDF data. A natural language question includes entities, classes, and implicit and explicit relationships. In this article, by focusing on identification and mapping of implicit relationships in the question (in addition to the explicit relationships), the mapping step has been improved. In the proposed solution (IRQA), entities and implicit/explicit relationships are identified by means of the provided rules …


Analysis Of Condition Number And Position Estimation Error For Multiangulationposition Estimation System, Sa'id Musa Yarima, Ahmad Zuri Sha'ameri, Abdulmalik Shehu Yaro Jan 2020

Analysis Of Condition Number And Position Estimation Error For Multiangulationposition Estimation System, Sa'id Musa Yarima, Ahmad Zuri Sha'ameri, Abdulmalik Shehu Yaro

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A passive wireless positioning system could be used to detect the location of low-level airborne targets such as drones or unmanned aircraft systems from the electromagnetic emission detected at spatially deployed ground receiving stations (GRSs). The multiangulation system proposed in this paper makes use of the angle of arrival (AOA) of the transmitted signal from the target to estimate its position through a 2-stage process. The AOA is the positiondependent signal parameter (PDSP) obtained from the target emission in the first stage, and using the PDSP and GRSs, the target location is estimated in the second stage by the angulation …


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 …


Fault Identification Of Catenary Dropper Based On Improved Capsnet, Jianpeng Bian, Jiaxing Hao, Shuai Zhao, Weijing Hua, Shichuang Gao Jan 2020

Fault Identification Of Catenary Dropper Based On Improved Capsnet, Jianpeng Bian, Jiaxing Hao, Shuai Zhao, Weijing Hua, Shichuang Gao

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Traditional fault identification algorithms applied to catenary dropper suffer from various problems due to its small contact area. These problems include misidentification and lower recognition rate of the faulty dropper. Compared with the traditional convolutional neural network, the vector is utilized as the input of the capsule network (CapsNet) for the first time, which can well retain the feature information such as the direction and angle of the target, and is more suitable for identifying the dropper under complex background. Therefore, this paper proposes a dropper fault identification algorithm based on improved capsule network. The convolutional layer of traditional 9×9 …


A Fabrication-Oriented Remeshing Method For Auxetic Pattern Extraction, Levend Mehmet Mert, Ulaş Yaman, Yusuf Sahi̇lli̇oğlu Jan 2020

A Fabrication-Oriented Remeshing Method For Auxetic Pattern Extraction, Levend Mehmet Mert, Ulaş Yaman, Yusuf Sahi̇lli̇oğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

We propose a method for extracting auxetic patterns from meshes for fabrication by modifying the existing mesh primitives directly and fully automatically. This direct approach is novel in the sense that most of the fabricationoriented surface tiling methods introduce additional primitives, such as curve networks in an interactive semiautomatic framework. Our method is based on a remeshing procedure that converts a given quad mesh with arbitrary topology into our desired structure that is ready to be fabricated. The main advantages of establishing auxetic patterns on meshes are the achieved flexibility using cheap inflexible materials as well as less material usage …


User Profiling For Tv Program Recommendation Based On Hybrid Televisionstandards Using Controlled Clustering With Genetic Algorithms And Artificial Neuralnetworks, İhsan Topalli, Selçuk Kilinç Jan 2020

User Profiling For Tv Program Recommendation Based On Hybrid Televisionstandards Using Controlled Clustering With Genetic Algorithms And Artificial Neuralnetworks, İhsan Topalli, Selçuk Kilinç

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, an earlier method proposed by the authors to make smart recommendations utilizing artificial intelligence and the latest technologies developed for the television area is expanded further using controlled clustering with genetic algorithms (CCGA). For this purpose, genetic algorithms (GAs), artificial neural networks (ANNs), and hybrid broadcast broadband television (HbbTV) are combined to get the users' television viewing habits and to create profiles. Then television programs are recommended to the users based on that profiling. The data gathered by the developed HbbTV application for previous studies are reused in this study. These data are employed to cluster users. …


Selective Personalization And Group Profiles For Improved Web Search Personalization, Samira Karimi Mansoub, Gönenç Ercan, İlyas Çi̇çekli̇ Jan 2020

Selective Personalization And Group Profiles For Improved Web Search Personalization, Samira Karimi Mansoub, Gönenç Ercan, İlyas Çi̇çekli̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Personalization is a common technique used in Web search engines to improve the effectiveness of retrieval. While personalizing some queries yields significant improvements in user experience by providing a ranking in line with the user preferences, it fails to improve or even degrades the effectiveness for less ambiguous queries. A potential personalization metric could improve search engines by selectively applying personalization. One such measure, click entropy uses the query history and the clicked documents for the query, which might be sparse for some queries. In this article, the topic entropy measure is improved by integrating the user distribution into the …


Nonlinear Adaptive Semiactive Control Of A Half-Vehicle Model Via Hardware In The Loop Simulation, Mahmut Paksoy, Muzaffer Meti̇n Jan 2020

Nonlinear Adaptive Semiactive Control Of A Half-Vehicle Model Via Hardware In The Loop Simulation, Mahmut Paksoy, Muzaffer Meti̇n

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, vehicle body vibrations are semiactively controlled using a nonlinear adaptive controller designed to improve passenger comfort by guaranteeing closed loop system stability under variable road disturbances with parametric uncertainty. Semiactive vibration control is implemented to the system through the magnetorheological damper. The MR damper test system is established in laboratory conditions, and the required values that are measured from the test system are used in computer simulations via the hardware in the loop simulation (HILS) method. By this way, it is possible to avoid the financial and other difficulties of the experimental study by establishing the test …


An Optimized Fpga Design Of Inverse Quantization And Transform For Hevcdecoding Blocks And Validation In An Sw/Hw Environment, Ahmed Ben Atitallah, Manel Kammoun, Rabie Ben Atitallah Jan 2020

An Optimized Fpga Design Of Inverse Quantization And Transform For Hevcdecoding Blocks And Validation In An Sw/Hw Environment, Ahmed Ben Atitallah, Manel Kammoun, Rabie Ben Atitallah

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents an optimized hardware architecture of the inverse quantization and the inverse transform (IQ/IT) for a high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) decoder. Our highly parallel and pipelined architecture was designed to support all HEVC Transform Unit (TU) sizes: 4 × 4, 8 × 8, 16 × 16, and 32 × 32. The IQ/IT was described in the VHSIC hardware description language and synthesized to Xilinx XC7Z020 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and to TSMC 180 nm standard-cell library. The throughput of the hardware architecture reached in the worst case a processing rate of up to 1080 p at 33 fps …


Investigating The Efficiency Of Multithreading Application Programming Interfacesfor Parallel Packet Classification In Wireless Sensor Networks, Mahdi Abbasi, Milad Rafiee, Mohammad R. Khosravi Jan 2020

Investigating The Efficiency Of Multithreading Application Programming Interfacesfor Parallel Packet Classification In Wireless Sensor Networks, Mahdi Abbasi, Milad Rafiee, Mohammad R. Khosravi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper investigates the most appropriate application programming interface (API) that best accelerates the flow-based applications on the wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Each WSN include many sensor nodes which have limited resources. These sensor nodes are connected together using base stations. The base stations are commonly network systems with conventional processors which are responsible for handling a large amount of communicated data in flows of network packets. For this purpose, classification of the communicated packets is considered the primary process in such systems. With the advent of high-performance multicore processors, developers in the network industry have considered these processors as …


A New Semiempirical Model Determining The Dielectric Characteristics Of Citrusleaves For The Remote Sensing At C Band, Abdullah Genç, Habi̇b Doğan, İbrahi̇m Bahadir Başyi̇ği̇t Jan 2020

A New Semiempirical Model Determining The Dielectric Characteristics Of Citrusleaves For The Remote Sensing At C Band, Abdullah Genç, Habi̇b Doğan, İbrahi̇m Bahadir Başyi̇ği̇t

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Dielectric parameters (i.e. permittivity) are fundamental to the simulation, design, modeling, and developing of microwave applications. For targeted objects, the complex permittivity is an essential parameter that affects its characteristics of scattering and microwave radiation. Thus, in microwave remote sensing applications, the knowledge of the dielectric property of vegetable materials is used not only to detect planting areas for monitoring and to able to specify the growth stage of them in seasonal variations, but also to determine the water requirement of the plant for controlling (water stress). This paper focuses on determining the dielectric parameters of orange and lemon leaves, …


Human Activity Recognition By Using Mhis Of Frame Sequences, Saeedeh Zebhi, Smt Almodarresi, Vahid Abootalebi Jan 2020

Human Activity Recognition By Using Mhis Of Frame Sequences, Saeedeh Zebhi, Smt Almodarresi, Vahid Abootalebi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A motion history image (MHI) is a temporal template that collapses temporal motion information into a single image in which intensity is a function of recency of motion. In recent years, the popularity of deep learning architectures for human activity recognition has encouraged us to explore the effectiveness of combining them and MHIs. Based on this, two new methods are introduced in this paper. In the first method, which is called the basic method, each video splits into N groups of consecutive frames, and the MHI is calculated for each group. Transfer learning with the fine-tuning technique is used for …


A Ga-Based Adaptive Mechanism For Sensorless Vector Control Of Induction Motor Drives For Urban Electric Vehicles, Asma Boulmane, Youssef Zidani, Driss Belkhayat, Marouane Bouchouirbat Jan 2020

A Ga-Based Adaptive Mechanism For Sensorless Vector Control Of Induction Motor Drives For Urban Electric Vehicles, Asma Boulmane, Youssef Zidani, Driss Belkhayat, Marouane Bouchouirbat

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Induction motors are more attractive to car manufacturers because they are more robust and more cost effective to maintain in comparison with other types of electric machines. The evolution of their control makes them more efficient and less expensive. However, a new control technique known as sensorless control is being used to simplify the implementation of electric machines in electric vehicles. This technique involves replacing the flux and speed sensors with an observer. The estimation of these elements is based on the measurement of currents and voltages. The main purpose of the present study is to design a novel robust …


A Template-Based Code Generator For Web Applications, Burak Uyanik, Veysel Harun Şahi̇n Jan 2020

A Template-Based Code Generator For Web Applications, Burak Uyanik, Veysel Harun Şahi̇n

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The importance and usage of web applications grow every day. Today from small businesses to large-scale corporations, many institutions prefer web applications for both their internal and external services. Code size and complexity of these kinds of applications grow rapidly. This brings up the question of how to improve the development process of web applications. A solution can be to use code generators. This paper introduces a template-based code generator to improve the development process of web applications. The code generator was developed and integrated into a real-life web application. Today, the web application together with the code generator is …


Experimental And Predicted Xlpe Cable Insulation Properties Under Uvradiation, Abdallah Hedir, Ali Bechouche, Mustapha Moudoud, Madjid Teguar, Omar Lamrous, Sebastien Rondot Jan 2020

Experimental And Predicted Xlpe Cable Insulation Properties Under Uvradiation, Abdallah Hedir, Ali Bechouche, Mustapha Moudoud, Madjid Teguar, Omar Lamrous, Sebastien Rondot

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper deals with the behavior of the crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) used as high-voltage power cable insulation under ultraviolet (UV) radiations. For this, XLPE samples have been irradiated for 240 h using low-pressure vapor fluorescent lamps. Electrical (surface and volume resistivities), mechanical (tensile strength, elongation at break and surface hardness) and physical (weight loss, water absorption, work of water adhesion and contact angle) tests have been first carried out. Experimental results show that the XLPE characteristics are affected by UV radiation. Indeed, a decline in surface resistivity, mechanical properties, and contact angle, and an increase in the water retention amount …


Plane Wave Diffraction By Strip With An Integral Boundary Condition, Kami̇l Karaçuha, Vasil Tabatadze, Eldar Ismailovich Veliev Jan 2020

Plane Wave Diffraction By Strip With An Integral Boundary Condition, Kami̇l Karaçuha, Vasil Tabatadze, Eldar Ismailovich Veliev

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this article, a new solution method is proposed for plane wave diffraction by a strip. On the surface of the strip, an integral boundary condition is used. The impedance of the strip is investigated. The theoretical and numerical analyses show that there is a relation between the complex-valued fractional order of the integral boundary condition and properties of the material such as the impedance. As a further study, the total radar cross-section is investigated using the proposed method.


An Alternative Method Of Biomedical Signal Transmission Through The Gsm Voice Channel, Seyedmohsen Dehghan, Mehmet Kaya Jan 2020

An Alternative Method Of Biomedical Signal Transmission Through The Gsm Voice Channel, Seyedmohsen Dehghan, Mehmet Kaya

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this work, a new solution for online and accurate biomedical data transmission is presented. For this purpose, a global system for mobile (GSM) communication voice channel is, for the first time, used as a communication link between the patient and healthcare provider. Biomedical signals are converted into speech-like signals before being transferred over a GSM voice channel. On the receiver side, speech-like symbols are stored in a symbols bank, and constructed using random stochastic signals. On the receiver end, the index of the symbol with the most similarity to the received signal is selected as the identified sample. This …


Facest: Feedback-Assisted Estimation Of End-To-End Capacity In Ip-Basedcommunication Networks, Fati̇h Abut Jan 2020

Facest: Feedback-Assisted Estimation Of End-To-End Capacity In Ip-Basedcommunication Networks, Fati̇h Abut

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The end-to-end capacity, defined as the maximal transmission rate of the weakest link on the entire path between two end hosts, plays an important role in efficient network design and management. Although various capacity estimation tools have been proposed in the literature, there is still uncertainty in their accuracy and reliability when they are used in today's IP-based communication networks. The main reason for this is that all current capacity estimation tools only yield a potential candidate for an acceptable estimate, without being aware of its reliability level. In this study, we propose a new feedback-assisted end-to-end capacity estimation (FACEST) …


Zeki: Unsupervised Zero-Day Exploit Kit Intelligence, Emre Süren Jan 2020

Zeki: Unsupervised Zero-Day Exploit Kit Intelligence, Emre Süren

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Over the last few years, exploit kits (EKs) have become the de facto medium for large-scale spread of malware. Drive-by download is the leading method that is widely used by EK flavors to exploit web-based client-side vulnerabilities. Their principal goal is to infect the victim's system with a malware. In addition, EK families evolve quickly, where they port zero-day exploits for brand new vulnerabilities that were never seen before and for which no patch exists. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for categorizing malware infection incidents conducted through EKs by leveraging the inherent "overall URL patterns" in the …


Multiplicative-Additive Despeckling In Sar Images, Gülay Aksoy, Fati̇h Nar Jan 2020

Multiplicative-Additive Despeckling In Sar Images, Gülay Aksoy, Fati̇h Nar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Visual and automatic analyses using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are challenging because of inherently formed speckle noise. Thus, reducing speckle noise in SAR images is an important research area for SAR image analysis. During speckle noise reduction, homogeneous regions should be smoothed while details such as edges and point scatterers need to be preserved. General speckle noise model contains gamma distributed multiplicative part which is dominant and Gaussian distributed additive part which is in low amount and mostly neglected in literature. In this study, a novel sparsity-driven speckle reduction method is proposed that takes both multiplicative noise model and …


Remac: A Novel Hybrid And Reservation-Based Mac Protocol For Vanets, Fi̇kri̇ Ağgün, Musa Çibuk, Shafqat Ur Rehman Jan 2020

Remac: A Novel Hybrid And Reservation-Based Mac Protocol For Vanets, Fi̇kri̇ Ağgün, Musa Çibuk, Shafqat Ur Rehman

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The period in which a roadside unit (RSU) of a vehicle remains in the coverage area is too short in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) in which the vehicles move at high speeds. In this short period, it is necessary for the vehicles to join the network and establish continuous communication with the RSU. To accomplish this, the RSU and vehicles need an efficient and robust media access control (MAC) protocol. In this study, a new reservation-based MAC (ReMAC) protocol in which multiple channels are used is suggested to ensure rapid connection to RSUs, smooth transition between RSUs, and efficient …


Bases Of Polymatroids And Problems On Graphs, Hakan Kutucu Jan 2020

Bases Of Polymatroids And Problems On Graphs, Hakan Kutucu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In the paper, we present new theorems to show that a Hamiltonian path and circuit on an undirected graph can be formulated in terms of bases of polymatroids or extended polymatroids associated with submodular functions defined on subsets of the node-set of a given graph. In this way, we give a new formulation of the well-known traveling salesman problem including constraints in these terms. The main result in the paper states that using a special base of the polymatroid, a Hamiltonian path on an undirected graph can be solved effectively. Since the determination of a Hamiltonian circuit can be reduced …