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Study And Control Of 5-Level Pwm Rectifier-5-Level Npc Active Power Filter Cascade Using Feedback Control And Redundant Vectors, Thameur Abdelkrim, El Madjid Berkouk, Karima Benamrane, Tarak Benslimane Jan 2012

Study And Control Of 5-Level Pwm Rectifier-5-Level Npc Active Power Filter Cascade Using Feedback Control And Redundant Vectors, Thameur Abdelkrim, El Madjid Berkouk, Karima Benamrane, Tarak Benslimane

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The purpose of this paper is to develop a control and regulation method for the input DC voltages of a 5-level neutral point clamping (NPC) active power filter (APF). This APF is applied for the enhancement of medium-voltage network power quality by compensation of harmonic currents produced by an induction motor speed variator. In the first part, the authors present a topology of a 5-level NPC voltage source inverter and its simplified space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) control strategy. In the second part, the control strategy of the 5-level pulse width modulation current rectifier is presented. In the third …


Cascade Fuzzy Logic Control Of A Single-Link Flexible-Joint Manipulator, İsmai̇l Hakki Akyüz, Zafer Bi̇ngül, Selçuk Ki̇zi̇r Jan 2012

Cascade Fuzzy Logic Control Of A Single-Link Flexible-Joint Manipulator, İsmai̇l Hakki Akyüz, Zafer Bi̇ngül, Selçuk Ki̇zi̇r

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents the design and control of a single-link flexible-joint robot manipulator. A cascade fuzzy logic controller (FLC) was used to remove link vibrations and to obtain fast trajectory tracking performance. The cascade FLC structure includes 3 different FLCs. The input variables of the first and the second FLCs are the motor rotation angle error, its derivative, and the end-point deflection error its derivative, respectively. The outputs of these controllers are the inputs of the third FLC, which yields the control signal to the flexible robot arm. All of the FLCs were embedded in a DS1103 real-time control board. …


Circuit Model And Parasitic Parameter Extraction Of The Spark Plug In The Ignition System, Quandi Wang, Yali Zheng, Jihui Yu, Jin Jia Jan 2012

Circuit Model And Parasitic Parameter Extraction Of The Spark Plug In The Ignition System, Quandi Wang, Yali Zheng, Jihui Yu, Jin Jia

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents a circuit model of the spark plug in the ignition system for conducted electromagnetic interference (EMI). Based on the spark plug's current discharge channel, the circuit model of the spark plug is established with the parasitic parameters and the air-gap model. The parasitic parameters of the spark plug are extracted with the finite element method, and the air-gap model of the spark plug is analyzed using the electric circuit principles and the air-discharge theory. The simulation and measurement results validate this model. Furthermore, this model confirms that the spark plug discharge is the main conducted EMI source …


Short-Term Nodal Congestion Price Forecasting In A Large-Scale Power Market Using Ann With Genetic Optimization Training, Majid Moazzami, Rahmat Allah Hooshmand Jan 2012

Short-Term Nodal Congestion Price Forecasting In A Large-Scale Power Market Using Ann With Genetic Optimization Training, Majid Moazzami, Rahmat Allah Hooshmand

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In a daily power market, price and load forecasting are the most important signals for the market participants. In this paper, an accurate feed-forward neural network model with a genetic optimization Levenberg-Marquardt back propagation training algorithm is employed for short-term nodal congestion price forecasting in different zones of a large-scale power market. The use of genetic algorithms for neural network training optimization has a remarkable effect on the accuracy of price forecasting in a large-scale power market. The necessary data for neural network training are obtained by solving optimal power flow equations that take into account all effective constraints at …


Stability Of The Adaptive Fading Extended Kalman Filter With The Matrix Forgetting Factor, Cenker Bi̇çer, Esi̇n Köksal Babacan, Levent Özbek Jan 2012

Stability Of The Adaptive Fading Extended Kalman Filter With The Matrix Forgetting Factor, Cenker Bi̇çer, Esi̇n Köksal Babacan, Levent Özbek

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The extended Kalman filter is extensively used in nonlinear state estimation problems. As long as the system characteristics are correctly known, the extended Kalman filter gives the best performance. However, when the system information is partially known or incorrect, the extended Kalman filter may diverge or give biased estimates. An extensive number of works has been published to improve the performance of the extended Kalman filter. Many researchers have proposed the introduction of a forgetting factor, both into the Kalman filter and the extended Kalman filter, to improve the performance. However, there are 2 fundamental problems with this approach: the …


Neutral Current Wave Shape Analysis Using Wavelet For Diagnosis Of Winding Insulation Of A Transformer, Patthi Sridhar, Birendra Prasad Singh, Pulapa Venkata Kanaka Rao Jan 2012

Neutral Current Wave Shape Analysis Using Wavelet For Diagnosis Of Winding Insulation Of A Transformer, Patthi Sridhar, Birendra Prasad Singh, Pulapa Venkata Kanaka Rao

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Insulation failure within the windings of a power transformer arises due to over voltages, under voltages, notches, glitches, etc. A widely used technique to detect these power transformer insulation failures during an impulse test is the comparison of neutral current waveforms. Any shift in the recorded waveforms between reduced and full voltage confirms the existence of a fault in the windings. Hence, a proper analysis of neutral current waveforms is necessary to assess the condition of the insulation of power transformer winding. In order to carry out a wave shape analysis, a 61 MVA, 11.5/230 kV generator transformer is used …


Finite Element Modeling Of A Superconducting Fault Current Limiter, Lale Ergene, J. Keith Nelson, Raghunath Parthasarathi Jan 2012

Finite Element Modeling Of A Superconducting Fault Current Limiter, Lale Ergene, J. Keith Nelson, Raghunath Parthasarathi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper summarizes the work done to show finite element modeling results on a high temperature superconductor fault current limiter (FCL). The paper also gives the small mock-up design of the matrix FCL and its finite element model (FEM). It also discusses the limitations of the FEM and explains how the results from the FEM compare with the experimental data derived for the configuration. A 3-dimensional FEM has been used because of the structure of the real geometry, which does not show any plane or axisymmetric features.


Characterization Of A Total Power Radiometer, Murat Celep, Şenel Yaran, Yakup Gülmez, Ari̇f Dolma Jan 2012

Characterization Of A Total Power Radiometer, Murat Celep, Şenel Yaran, Yakup Gülmez, Ari̇f Dolma

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The performance parameters of a total power radiometer designed as a noise measurement system for the frequency range of 12-18 GHz were investigated. The total power radiometer included a low-noise radio frequency section, a narrow-band intermediate frequency section, an average power detector, and a symmetric microwave switch. The radiometer's stability versus time was 0.343 \times 10^{-5} mW/h and its stability against temperature fluctuation was 0.0035 mW/K. The temperature fluctuation of the radiometer was less than 4 mK. We proved that there was no need for active temperature control to obtain stable radiometer gain.


Improvement Of Smart Card Based Password Authentication Scheme For Multiserver Environments, Zuowen Tan Jan 2012

Improvement Of Smart Card Based Password Authentication Scheme For Multiserver Environments, Zuowen Tan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In multiserver (MS) environments, it is preferable for a remote user to login to different service provider servers by keying in the same password. Recently, Wang et al. proposed an improvement on the dynamic identity-based smart card authentication scheme of Liao and Wang for MS environments. Sandeep et al. improved the dynamic identity-based smart card authentication scheme of Hsiang et al. for MS architecture. However, we found that the schemes of Wang et al. and Sandeep et al. failed to provide service provider server authentication, perfect forward security, and login scalability. In addition, the scheme of Sandeep et al. was …


An Algorithm For The Detection And Analysis Of Arud Meter In Diwan Poetry, Atakan Kurt, Mehmet Kara Jan 2012

An Algorithm For The Detection And Analysis Of Arud Meter In Diwan Poetry, Atakan Kurt, Mehmet Kara

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Diwan poetry is an important branch of classical Turkish literature (or Ottoman literature) that uses arud meter (wazn AR\footnote{Denotes an Arabic word.} or bahr AR, ölçü TR\footnote{Denotes a Turkish word.}). The teaching of classical poetry in high schools and in literature departments in universities requires an understanding of this meter. Arud is also used in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and other eastern languages. Determining the arud meter of poems written in the Ottoman language (Osmanlıca TR) is a difficult and tedious task for those who study poetry. In this paper, we focus on the computerized analysis of arud meter. We present …


Localized Power-Aware Routing With An Energy-Efficient Pipelined Wakeup Schedule For Wireless Sensor Networks, Taner Çevi̇k, Abdül Hali̇m Zai̇m, Derya Yiltaş Jan 2012

Localized Power-Aware Routing With An Energy-Efficient Pipelined Wakeup Schedule For Wireless Sensor Networks, Taner Çevi̇k, Abdül Hali̇m Zai̇m, Derya Yiltaş

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Depending on the evolutions in electronics, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been very popular in many areas of human life such as health, industry, and military. This popularity has drawn the attention of many researchers toward WSNs. WSNs are especially favorable in conditions in which it is physically difficult and dangerous for human beings to gather information. Therefore, the lifetime of those networks must be as long as possible, since it would also be infeasible to replace the energy-depleted sensors with new ones, as they may be deployed in such geographical areas that are difficult and dangerous for human beings …


Analysis Of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit Based Subsurface Imaging For Compressive Ground Penetrating Radars, Mehmet Ali̇ Çağri Tuncer, Ali̇ Cafer Gürbüz Jan 2012

Analysis Of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit Based Subsurface Imaging For Compressive Ground Penetrating Radars, Mehmet Ali̇ Çağri Tuncer, Ali̇ Cafer Gürbüz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

It is shown that compressive sensing (CS) theory can be used for subsurface imaging in stepped frequency ground penetrating radars (GPR), resulting in robust sparse images, using fewer measurements. Although the data acquisition time is decreased by CS, the computational complexity of the minimization based imaging algorithm is too costly, which makes the algorithm useless, especially for extensive discretization or 3D imaging. In this paper, a greedy alternative, orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) is used for imaging subsurface and its performance under various conditions is compared to CS imaging method. Results show that OMP could reconstruct sparse signals robustly as well …


A Novel Structure To Enhance Magnetic Force And Velocity In Tubular Linear Reluctance Motor, Ali Mosallanejad, Abbas Shoulaie Jan 2012

A Novel Structure To Enhance Magnetic Force And Velocity In Tubular Linear Reluctance Motor, Ali Mosallanejad, Abbas Shoulaie

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, a novel design for a tubular linear reluctance motor (TLRM) has been developed. This paper presents a novel structure to enhance magnetic force and velocity in a TLRM. The new structure is accomplished through some changes in a TLRM, which results in a step winding structure. Comparing the proposed motor and the typical motor performances, it is proven that the proposed motor has better performance. For dynamic modeling of the proposed TLRM and to obtain the motor output characteristics, the method used for inductance profile calculation is described. The performance improvements in the proposed motor are evaluated …


Application Of The Posicast Control Method To Static Shunt Compensators, Amir Ghorbani, Siamak Masoudi, Arash Shabani Jan 2012

Application Of The Posicast Control Method To Static Shunt Compensators, Amir Ghorbani, Siamak Masoudi, Arash Shabani

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, the Posicast control method is used for decreasing the reactive power oscillations of static shunt compensators. Shunt compensators such as the static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) and static VAR compensator (SVC) are considered to be FACTS devices. The applied control method decreases the amount of oscillations in the outputs of STATCOM and SVC considerably, with fast damping. In this paper, a PI controller is added to the model to decrease the sensitivity of the Posicast controller to the parameter variations and plant model mismatch. Simplicity and applicability are the main features of this controller. The model is simulated …


Optimal Design Of Upfc-Based Damping Controller Using Imperialist Competitive Algorithm, Ali Ajami, Reza Gholizadeh Jan 2012

Optimal Design Of Upfc-Based Damping Controller Using Imperialist Competitive Algorithm, Ali Ajami, Reza Gholizadeh

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, the optimal design of supplementary controller parameters of a unified power flow controller (UPFC) to damp low-frequency oscillations in a weakly connected system is investigated. The individual design of the UPFC controller, using the imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) technique over a wide range of operating conditions, is discussed. The effectiveness and validity of the proposed controller on damping low-frequency oscillations is tested through a time-domain simulation and eigenvalue analysis under 4 loading conditions and a large disturbance. The simulation results, carried out using MATLAB/Simulink software, reveal that the tuned ICA-based UPFC controller has an excellent capability of …


Broken Rotor Bar Fault Detection In Inverter-Fed Squirrel Cage Induction Motors Using Stator Current Analysis And Fuzzy Logic, Mehmet Akar, İlyas Çankaya Jan 2012

Broken Rotor Bar Fault Detection In Inverter-Fed Squirrel Cage Induction Motors Using Stator Current Analysis And Fuzzy Logic, Mehmet Akar, İlyas Çankaya

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents the implementation of broken rotor bar fault detection in an inverter-fed induction motor using motor current signal analysis (MCSA) and prognosis with fuzzy logic. Recently, inverter-fed induction motors have become very popular because of their adjustable speed drive. They have been used in many vital control applications such as rolling mills, variable speed compressors, pumps, and fans. The condition monitoring of these motors can significantly reduce the cost of maintenance in the early detection of faults. In this study, MCSA is applied to an inverter-fed induction motor to detect broken rotor bar faults. The diagnosis of a …


Fractional Pid Controllers Tuned By Evolutionary Algorithms For Robot Trajectory Control, Zafer Bi̇ngül, Oğuzhan Karahan Jan 2012

Fractional Pid Controllers Tuned By Evolutionary Algorithms For Robot Trajectory Control, Zafer Bi̇ngül, Oğuzhan Karahan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The aim of this paper is to compare the performances of a fractional order proportional integral derivative (FOPID) controller tuned with evolutionary algorithms for robot trajectory control. In order to make this comparison, a 2-degrees-of-freedom planar robot was controlled by a FOPID controller tuned with particle swarm optimization (PSO) and a real coded genetic algorithm (GA). In order to see the effects of the cost functions on the optimum parameters of the FOPID controller, 3 different cost functions were used: the root mean squared error (MRSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and mean minimum fuel and absolute error (MMFAE). In order …


Abstract Feature Extraction For Text Classification, Göksel Bi̇ri̇ci̇k, Banu Di̇ri̇, Ahmet Coşkun Sönmez Jan 2012

Abstract Feature Extraction For Text Classification, Göksel Bi̇ri̇ci̇k, Banu Di̇ri̇, Ahmet Coşkun Sönmez

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Feature selection and extraction are frequently used solutions to overcome the curse of dimensionality in text classification problems. We introduce an extraction method that summarizes the features of the document samples, where the new features aggregate information about how much evidence there is in a document, for each class. We project the high dimensional features of documents onto a new feature space having dimensions equal to the number of classes in order to form the abstract features. We test our method on 7 different text classification algorithms, with different classifier design approaches. We examine performances of the classifiers applied on …


Identification Of Linear Dynamic Systems Using The Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm, Özden Erçi̇n, Ramazan Çoban Jan 2012

Identification Of Linear Dynamic Systems Using The Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm, Özden Erçi̇n, Ramazan Çoban

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents an investigation into the development of system identification using the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm. A system identification task can be formulated as an optimization problem where the objective is to obtain a model and a set of parameters that minimize the prediction error between the measured plant outputs and the model outputs. The most common existing system identification approaches, such as the recursive least squares method and autoregressive exogenous method, are substantially analytical and based on a mathematical derivation of the system's model. Evolutionary computation, which seems to be a very promising approach, is an alternative …


Pi And Pid Stabilization Of Neutral And Retarded Systems With Time Delay, Serdar Ethem Hamamci Jan 2012

Pi And Pid Stabilization Of Neutral And Retarded Systems With Time Delay, Serdar Ethem Hamamci

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Stabilization using fixed-order controllers is one of the key topics in control system design for the linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. In this paper, the stabilization of LTI neutral and retarded time-delay systems by means of PI and PID controllers is investigated in detail. The basic theme of the presented approach is to obtain a global stability region in the 2-dimensional (2-D) (k_p, k_i)-plane for the PI controller and in the 3-dimensional (3-D) (k_p, k_i, k_d)-space for the PID controllers. This region is formed by stability boundaries that are defined as the real root boundary, infinite root boundary, and complex root …


An Implementation Of Modified Scatter Search Algorithm To Transmission Expansion Planning, Majid Zeinaddini Maymand, Masoud Rashidinejad, Hamid Khorasani, Mohsen Rahmani, Amin Mahmoudabadi Jan 2012

An Implementation Of Modified Scatter Search Algorithm To Transmission Expansion Planning, Majid Zeinaddini Maymand, Masoud Rashidinejad, Hamid Khorasani, Mohsen Rahmani, Amin Mahmoudabadi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Transmission network expansion planning (TNEP) is one of the most important tasks in the field of power systems, especially in deregulated power system environments. TNEP is a nonlinear mixed integer programming problem that can be solved via hybrid heuristic algorithms. This paper presents a modified scatter search algorithm (MSSA) to reinforce the ordinary scatter search algorithm (SSA) to be equipped for handling large scale transmission expansion planning (TEP) problems. The proposed methodology is based on the SSA, incorporating some improved strategies so as to decrease the number of linear programming problems required to be solved iteratively. In this study, it …


Analysis, Nonlinear Control, And Chaos Generator Circuit Of Another Strange Chaotic System, İhsan Pehli̇van, Zhouchao Wei Jan 2012

Analysis, Nonlinear Control, And Chaos Generator Circuit Of Another Strange Chaotic System, İhsan Pehli̇van, Zhouchao Wei

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, we introduce a new 3-dimensional quadratic continuous autonomous chaotic system. This system can generate strange and interesting attractors. Some basic dynamical properties, such as bifurcations, and chaotic behaviors of the new chaotic system are investigated analytically and numerically. We propose a nonlinear control scheme to discuss codimension 1 and 2 Hopf bifurcations. In addition, a new circuit implementation of the chaotic attractor is reported and examined in PSpice. The new system is suitable for purposefully generating chaos in chaos-based engineering applications.


Dynamic Stability Enhancement Of A Multimachine Electric Power System Using Statcom, Hasan Fayazi Boroujeni, Reza Hemmati, Sayed Mojtaba Shirvani Boroujeni Jan 2012

Dynamic Stability Enhancement Of A Multimachine Electric Power System Using Statcom, Hasan Fayazi Boroujeni, Reza Hemmati, Sayed Mojtaba Shirvani Boroujeni

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

With the expansion of electric power systems, the size and complexity of the network is increased. One of the most important drawbacks of network expansion is the reduction in the damping torque of the whole system. The lack of damping torque can lead to fluctuations and instability in the power system. With regard to this problem, power system stabilizers (PSSs) have been widely utilized to improve power system stability. However, due to some drawbacks of the conventional PSSs, the need for finding a better substitution still remains. Therefore, in this paper, the application of a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) to …


A Neural-Based Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Approach To The Detection Of A Conducting Cylinder Coated With A Dielectric Material, Senem Makal, Ahmet Kizilay Jan 2012

A Neural-Based Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Approach To The Detection Of A Conducting Cylinder Coated With A Dielectric Material, Senem Makal, Ahmet Kizilay

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, a radial basis function neural network approach is applied for the estimation of the localization and the radius of a conducting cylinder with a circular cross-section coated with a dielectric material. A set of features, the radar cross-section (RCS) values, are derived from scattered fields, which are calculated using the surface equivalence principle and the method of moment. RCS values are obtained using 10 different scattering angles that are fed into the network. The outputs of the network are the location (x_0, y_0) and the radius (r_p) of the conducting cylinder. This is an application of the …


Considering Transmission Loss For An Economic Dispatch Problem Without Valve-Point Loading Using An Ep-Epso Algorithm, Sevugarathinam Muthu Vijaya Pandian, Keppanagowder Thanushkodi Jan 2012

Considering Transmission Loss For An Economic Dispatch Problem Without Valve-Point Loading Using An Ep-Epso Algorithm, Sevugarathinam Muthu Vijaya Pandian, Keppanagowder Thanushkodi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Economic dispatch (ED) is one of the most important optimization problems in a power system. The objective of ED is sharing the power demand among the online generators while keeping the minimum cost of generation as a constraint. The aim of this paper is to operate an electric power system as economically as possible within its security limits. This paper proposes the following 2 new particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms to solve a nonconvex economic dispatch problem: an efficient PSO is termed as efficient particle swarm optimization (EPSO), and a hybrid of evolutionary programming (EP) and EPSO is termed as …


Resolution Enhancement Of Video Sequences By Using Discrete Wavelet Transform And Illumination Compensation, Sara Izadpanahi, Çağri Özçinar, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Hasan Demirel Jan 2012

Resolution Enhancement Of Video Sequences By Using Discrete Wavelet Transform And Illumination Compensation, Sara Izadpanahi, Çağri Özçinar, Gholamreza Anbarjafari, Hasan Demirel

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This research paper proposes a new technique for video resolution enhancement that employees an illumination compensation procedure before the registration process. After the illumination compensation process, the respective frames are registered using the Irani and Peleg technique. In parallel, the corresponding frame is decomposed into high-frequency (low-high, high-low, and high-high) and low-frequency (low-low) subbands using discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The high-frequency subbands are superresolved using bicubic interpolation. Afterwards, the interpolated high-frequency subbands and superresolved low-frequency subband obtained by registration are used to construct the high-resolution frame using inverse DWT. The superiority of the proposed resolution enhancement method over well-known video …


Model Selection And Score Normalization For Text-Dependent Single Utterance Speaker Verification, Osman Büyük, Mustafa Levent Arslan Jan 2012

Model Selection And Score Normalization For Text-Dependent Single Utterance Speaker Verification, Osman Büyük, Mustafa Levent Arslan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, we investigate model selection and channel variability issues on a text-dependent single utterance (TDSU) speaker verification application. Due to the lack of an appropriate database for the task, a multichannel speaker recognition database, which consists of multiple recordings of a single Turkish utterance, is collected. The first set of experiments is devoted to model selection. Phonetic hidden Markov model (HMM)-based, sentence HMM-based, and Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-based methods are compared to find the most appropriate modeling approach for the target application. Based on the experimental results, the HMM-based methods outperform the GMM. The sentence HMM yields the …


Hybrid Feature Selection For Text Classification, Serkan Günal Jan 2012

Hybrid Feature Selection For Text Classification, Serkan Günal

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Feature selection is vital in the field of pattern classification due to accuracy and processing time considerations. The selection of proper features is of greater importance when the initial feature set is considerably large. Text classification is a typical example of this situation, where the size of the initial feature set may reach to hundreds or even thousands. There are numerous research studies in the literature offering different feature selection strategies for text classification, mostly focused on filters. In spite of the extensive number of these studies, there is no significant work investigating the efficacy of a combination of features, …


Using A Game-Based Learning Model As A New Teaching Strategy For Computer Engineering, Kristijan Kuk, Dragica Jovanovic, Dusan Jokanovic, Petar Spalevic, Marko Caric, Stefan Panic Jan 2012

Using A Game-Based Learning Model As A New Teaching Strategy For Computer Engineering, Kristijan Kuk, Dragica Jovanovic, Dusan Jokanovic, Petar Spalevic, Marko Caric, Stefan Panic

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Interactive multimedia simulations and computer game elements can be successfully combined in order to create new advanced educational resources for teaching today's generation of students. Such a learning environment, a game-based learning model (GBLm), has been designed as a research prototype. This paper describes one type of GBLm for computer engineering, which we have used in the subject of computer graphics for the teaching unit Z-buffer algorithm, in order to facilitate the learning process. The implementation of a GBLm for graphical algorithms (GBL4CAl) is presented in detail as a multimedia interactive learning module designed to motivate students by making learning …


Symbolic Regression Of Crop Pest Forecasting Using Genetic Programming, Basim Alhadidi, Alaa Alafeef, Heba Al-Hiari Jan 2012

Symbolic Regression Of Crop Pest Forecasting Using Genetic Programming, Basim Alhadidi, Alaa Alafeef, Heba Al-Hiari

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, we propose and evaluate a mathematical model that describes the reported data on crop pests to get an accurate prediction of production costs, food safety, and the protection of the environment. Meteorological factors are not the only things that affect a bumper harvest; it is also affected by crop plant diseases and insect pests. Studies show that relying solely on the naked-eye observations of experts to forecast well-planned agriculture is not always sufficient to achieve effective control. Providing fast, automatic, cheap, and accurate artificial intelligence-based solutions for that task can be of great realistic significance. The proposed …