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Modeling Compaction Parameters Using Support Vector And Decision Treeregression Algorithms, Abdurrahman Özbeyaz, Mehmet Söylemez Jan 2020

Modeling Compaction Parameters Using Support Vector And Decision Treeregression Algorithms, Abdurrahman Özbeyaz, Mehmet Söylemez

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Shortening the periods of compaction tests can be possible by analyzing the data obtained from previous laboratory tests with regression methods. The regression analysis applied to current data reduces the cost of experiments, saves time, and gives estimated outputs. In this study, the MLS-SVR, KB-SVR, and DTR algorithms were employed for the first time for the estimation of soil compaction parameters. The performances of these regression algorithms in estimating maximum dry unit weight (MDD) and optimum water content (OMC) were compared. Furthermore, the soil properties (fine-grained soil, sand, gravel, specific gravity, liquid limit, and plastic limit) were employed as inputs …


Optimum Reference Distance Based Path Loss Exponent Determination Forvehicle-To-Vehicle Communication, Kenan Kuzulugi̇l, Zeynep Hasirci, İsmai̇l Hakki Çavdar Jan 2020

Optimum Reference Distance Based Path Loss Exponent Determination Forvehicle-To-Vehicle Communication, Kenan Kuzulugi̇l, Zeynep Hasirci, İsmai̇l Hakki Çavdar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication environment differs from classical wireless communication with respect to low antenna heights and high mobility. Therefore, V2V channel modeling based on real measurements is still crucial to get the channel parameters for the various road environments. One of the most extracted parameters from measurements is path loss exponent and selecting a fixed reference distance value in obtaining this parameter may also cause remarkable fitting errors. Thus, in this study, least square method-based approach for the best-fitted path loss exponent calculation was proposed by determining the optimum reference distance value from the V2V channel measurements. First, V2V channel …


Effects Of Sliding Mode Control Antiretroviral Drug On Hiv-1 Viral Load, Musharif Ahmed, Saad Zafar, Muhammad Aamer Saleem, Muhammad Zubair, Ijaz Mansoor Qureshi Jan 2020

Effects Of Sliding Mode Control Antiretroviral Drug On Hiv-1 Viral Load, Musharif Ahmed, Saad Zafar, Muhammad Aamer Saleem, Muhammad Zubair, Ijaz Mansoor Qureshi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has devastating effects on human society. Researchers have proposed many models for the decay of CD4+T cells, the growth of infected cells, and viral load. In this paper, four first-order nonlinear coupled differential equations have been considered. Four variables are CD4+T cells, which are healthy, less infected cells,more infected cells capable of producing virus,and finally the viralload. Apart from the two drug therapies, protease inhibitor (PI) and reverse transcriptase inhibitor (RTI), which have already been considered in the literature, we have proposed antiretroviral drug (ARD) that works as sliding mode controller. We have used numerical methods …


Design Of A Miniaturized Planar Microstrip Wilkinson Power Divider With Harmonic Cancellation, Saeedeh Lotfi, Saeed Roshani, Sobhan Roshani Jan 2020

Design Of A Miniaturized Planar Microstrip Wilkinson Power Divider With Harmonic Cancellation, Saeedeh Lotfi, Saeed Roshani, Sobhan Roshani

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, a compact microstrip Wilkinson power divider is designed and proposed using rectangularshaped resonator cells. The presented resonator cells are used instead of quarter-wave length branches in the traditional structure to reduce the circuit size, increase the bandwidth, and eliminate the unwanted harmonics. The designed resonator behavior is studied analytically and the locations of transmission zeros are investigated using transfer function andLCequivalentcircuitmethods. The proposed power divider(PD)operates at 2GHz frequency and suppresses the 2nd to 14th unwanted harmonics. The proposed PD achieves approximately 50% size reduction and 40%fractional bandwidth (FBW). The abilities of desirable size reduction and harmonic suppression …


Sdma-Based Distributed Device Discovery For D2d Communication, Muddasir Rahim, Muhammad Awais Javed, Ahmad Naseem Alvi Jan 2020

Sdma-Based Distributed Device Discovery For D2d Communication, Muddasir Rahim, Muhammad Awais Javed, Ahmad Naseem Alvi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is an important technique to improve capacity of future wireless networks. Cellular communications, internet of things and intelligent transport systems are key areas that could benefit from reduced end-to-end delay provided by D2D communication. Efficient device discovery is an important precondition to enable D2D communication. In this paper, we propose a space division multiple access (SDMA)-based distributed device discovery protocol in which user equipments (UEs) periodically transmit discovery beacons to each other. The proposed protocol reduces contention in the discovery beacons by allocating resource blocks to the UEs based on their location. Simulations results show that the …


Estimating Synthetic Load Profile Based On Student Behavior Using Fuzzy Inference System For Demand Side Management Application, Nadhirah Omar, Mohd Aifaa Mohd Ariff, Ainnur Farah Izzati Mohd Shah, Muhammad Syafiq Anwar Mustaza Jan 2020

Estimating Synthetic Load Profile Based On Student Behavior Using Fuzzy Inference System For Demand Side Management Application, Nadhirah Omar, Mohd Aifaa Mohd Ariff, Ainnur Farah Izzati Mohd Shah, Muhammad Syafiq Anwar Mustaza

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper proposes a novel approach of estimating synthetic load profiles based on the electrical usage behavior using the fuzzy inference system (FIS) for demand side management (DSM). In practice, DSM is utilized to change the pattern of electrical energy consumed by end-users to modify the load profile by manipulating the price of the electricity. This study focuses on the energy consumption consumed by students who are paying electricity bills indirectly. Therefore, the effectiveness of conventional DSM methods on this user requires further investigation. In this study, the FIS estimates the synthetic load profile based on the student?s behavior profile. …


Adaptive Fast Sliding Neural Control For Robot Manipulator, Bariş Özyer Jan 2020

Adaptive Fast Sliding Neural Control For Robot Manipulator, Bariş Özyer

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Robotic manipulators are open to external disturbances and actuation failures during performing a task such as trajectory tracking. In this paper, we present a modifed controller consisting of a global fast sliding surface combined with an adaptive neural network which is called adaptive fast sliding neural control (AFSNC) for a robotic manipulator to precise stable trajectory tracking performance under the external disturbances. The adaptive term is employedtoreduce uncertainties due to unmodeled dynamics. Trackingerror asymptoticallyconvergesto zero according to the Lyapunov stability theorem. Numerical examples have been carried on a planar two-links manipulator to verify the control approach efficiency. The experimental results …


An Energy-Efficient Lightweight Security Protocol For Optimal Resource Provenance In Wireless Sensor Networks, Sujesh Lal, Joe Prathap P M Jan 2020

An Energy-Efficient Lightweight Security Protocol For Optimal Resource Provenance In Wireless Sensor Networks, Sujesh Lal, Joe Prathap P M

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Security of resource sharing and provenance is a major concern in wireless sensor networks(WSNs),wherethe intruders can easily inject malicious intermediate nodes for various personal gains. This selective forwarding attack may reduce the flow of resource sharing and throughput in the network. Most of the existing techniques are complex and do not provide sufficient security to sensor nodes with low energy. This paper proposes an energy-efficient and lightweight security protocol for optimal resource provenance in multihop WSNs and the Internet of things (IoT) network. The sharing of the resources between the sensor nodes indicates the strength of the mutual cooperation between …


Analysis Of Biometric Data Using Watermarking Techniques, Foday Jorh, Bariş Özyer, Claude Fachkha Jan 2020

Analysis Of Biometric Data Using Watermarking Techniques, Foday Jorh, Bariş Özyer, Claude Fachkha

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper evaluates and analyses the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) frequency bands for embedding and extracting of the biometric data using DWT single level and multilevel watermarking approach with and without the use of alpha blending approach. In addition, singular value decomposition (SVD) combined with DWT is used to embed and extract the watermark image. The performance of compression and decompression approaches has been analyzed to examine the robustness and to check whether the compression function does destroy the integrity of the watermarked image. We investigate the proposed approach to understand how robust the watermarked on different sub-band is against …


A Detailed Survey Of Turkish Automatic Speech Recognition, Recep Si̇nan Arslan, Necaatti̇n Barişçi Jan 2020

A Detailed Survey Of Turkish Automatic Speech Recognition, Recep Si̇nan Arslan, Necaatti̇n Barişçi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Significant improvements have been made in automatic speech recognition(ASR)systems in terms of both the general technology and the software used. Despite these advancements, however, there is still an important difference between the recognition performance of humans and machines. This work focuses on the studies conducted in the field of Turkish speech recognition, the progress made in such studies in recent years, the language-specific constraints, the performance results achieved in the applications developed to date, and the development of a general scheme for researchers wishing to develop an ASR system for the Turkish language. A comprehensive study on the Turkish language, …


Design And Application Of Spwm Based 21-Level Hybrid Inverter For Induction Motor Drive, Sheikh Tanzim Meraj, Kamrul Hasan, Ammar Masaoud Jan 2020

Design And Application Of Spwm Based 21-Level Hybrid Inverter For Induction Motor Drive, Sheikh Tanzim Meraj, Kamrul Hasan, Ammar Masaoud

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Thispaperpresentstheapplicationofanewlydeveloped21-levelhybridmultilevelinverter. Ahighfrequency modulation technique known as sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) is applied to the hybrid inverter. This modulation methodology operates the switching sequences of the multilevel inverter to produce the desired 21-level output voltage. To validate the proper application of this inverter, it is further utilized to maintain the speed of a single phase induction motor. The velocity control of the motor is established on the principle of V/f control technique. The speed control strategy along with the compatibility of the SPWM modulation technique were verified by means of simulation and experimental results.


An Intelligent Diagnostic Method Based On Optimizing B-Cell Pool Clonal Selection Classification Algorithm, Chao Lan, Hongli Zhang, Xin Sun, Zhongyuan Ren Jan 2020

An Intelligent Diagnostic Method Based On Optimizing B-Cell Pool Clonal Selection Classification Algorithm, Chao Lan, Hongli Zhang, Xin Sun, Zhongyuan Ren

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The trend of intellectualization and complication of mechanical equipment makes the demand for intelligent diagnostic methods more and more intense in industry. In view of the difficulty of obtaining mechanical fault samples and the requirement of clear and reliable diagnosis results, intelligent diagnosis methods need to adapt to the learning of small samples and have the interpretability of white box model. In this paper, inspired by biological immunity, an intelligent fault diagnosis method was proposed-optimizing b-cell pool clonal selection classification algorithm (OBPCSCA). The OBPCSCA provides a method to construct unique B-cell pools corresponding to specific antigen pools, and uses greedy …


Automated Labeling Of Terms In Medical Reports In Serbian, Aldina Avdic, Ulfeta Marovac, Dragan Jankovic Jan 2020

Automated Labeling Of Terms In Medical Reports In Serbian, Aldina Avdic, Ulfeta Marovac, Dragan Jankovic

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Nowadays, many electronic health reports (EHRs) are stored daily. They consist of the structured part and of an unstructured section written in natural language. Due to the limited time for medical examination, EHRs are short reports which often contain errors and abbreviations. Therefore it is a challenge to process an EHR and extract knowledge from this part of the text for different purposes. This paper compares the results of three proposed methods for automatic labeling of medical terms in unstructured parts of EHRs. All words are categorized as words within the medical domain (symptoms, diagnoses, therapies, anatomy, specialties etc.) and …


Gated Recurrent Unit Based Demand Response For Preventing Voltage Collapse In A Distribution System, Venkateswarlu Gundu, Sishaj Pulikottil Simon, Kinattingal Sundareswaran, Srinivasa Rao Nayak Panugothu Jan 2020

Gated Recurrent Unit Based Demand Response For Preventing Voltage Collapse In A Distribution System, Venkateswarlu Gundu, Sishaj Pulikottil Simon, Kinattingal Sundareswaran, Srinivasa Rao Nayak Panugothu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents the application of deep learning algorithms towards demand response management. Demand limit violation and voltage stability are the major problems associated with a secondary distribution system. These problems are solved using demand response models by day ahead scheduling loads at every 15 min interval through linear integer programming and based on short term forecasting of load (kW). A new architecture for short term load forecasting is presented namely gated recurrent unit in which statistical analysis is carried out to get the optimal architecture of the neural network model. Reliability indices such as loss of load probability (LOLP) …


Quantum Key Distribution Over Free Space Optic (Fso) Channel Using Higher Order Gaussian Beam Spatial Modes, Muhammad Kamran, Dr. Muhammad Mubashir Khan, Tahir Malik, Asad Arfeen Jan 2020

Quantum Key Distribution Over Free Space Optic (Fso) Channel Using Higher Order Gaussian Beam Spatial Modes, Muhammad Kamran, Dr. Muhammad Mubashir Khan, Tahir Malik, Asad Arfeen

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Quantum key distribution(QKD) has emerged as a secure solution of secret key distribution utilizing the well established theories of modern physics. Since its introduction in 1984, many interesting and innovative ideas have been proposed for QKD in order to improve the security and efficiency of the scheme keeping in view of its applications and practicalimplementation. High error rate QKD scheme for long distance communication-theso-called KMB09 protocol is one such scheme which was designed to achieve longer communication distance in QKD, without compromising its security,by allowing the utilisation of higher dimensional photon states which is not possible with standard BB84 scheme. …


Improving Coverage Method Of Autonomous Drones For Environmental Monitoring, Ömür Yildirim, Revna Acar Vural, Klaus Diepold Jan 2020

Improving Coverage Method Of Autonomous Drones For Environmental Monitoring, Ömür Yildirim, Revna Acar Vural, Klaus Diepold

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

With the rapid developments of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), usage of UAVs is increasing to bring autonomy for complicated processes such as environmental monitoring. Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental monitoring tasks are highly demanding in terms of time and resources. To reduce expensive costs of operations, improvements on autonomous observation capabilities has a key role. In this work, we offer coverage improvements for our autonomous environmental monitoring system. We compared different path planning approaches to find out the optimum path planning solution. Simulation results showed that required task execution time and required resources are decreased by usage …


A Regular Expression Generator Based On Css Selectors For Efficient Extraction From Html Pages, Erdi̇nç Uzun Jan 2020

A Regular Expression Generator Based On Css Selectors For Efficient Extraction From Html Pages, Erdi̇nç Uzun

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Cascading style sheets (CSS) selectors are patterns used to select HTML elements. They are often preferred in web data extraction because they are easy to prepare and have short expressions. In order to be able to extract data from web pages by using these patterns, a document object model (DOM) tree is constructed by an HTML parser for a webpage. The construction process of this tree and the extraction process using this tree increase time and memory costs depending on the number of HTML elements and their hierarchies. For reducing these costs, regular expressions can be considered as a solution. …


Binary Multicriteria Collaborative Filtering, Emre Yalçin, Alper Bi̇lge Jan 2020

Binary Multicriteria Collaborative Filtering, Emre Yalçin, Alper Bi̇lge

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Collaborative filtering is specialized in suggesting appropriate products and services to the users concerning personal characteristics and past preferences without requiring any effort of users. It might be more efficient to collect preferences of users based on multiple subcriteria of products and services. For this purpose, researchers propose multicriteria recommender systems that are convenient for more accurate and useful evaluation of items. Insuchsystems, it might be preferable tocollect binary ratings instead of numerical ones due to the large number of subcriteria. However, there is a gap in the literature to satisfy a binary preferences-based multicriteria recommender system. In this study, …


A New Configuration For Four-Switch Three-Phase Inverters Based On A Switched-Capacitor Step-Up Cell For Electric Vehicles Application, Alireza Lahooti Eshkevari, Ali Mosallanejad, Mohammad Sadegh Sepasian Jan 2020

A New Configuration For Four-Switch Three-Phase Inverters Based On A Switched-Capacitor Step-Up Cell For Electric Vehicles Application, Alireza Lahooti Eshkevari, Ali Mosallanejad, Mohammad Sadegh Sepasian

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper proposes a new configuration for four-switch three-phase inverters based on a step-up switchedcapacitor cell, which is called switched-capacitor four-switch three-phase inverter (SCFSTPI). This converter includes eight power switches and two DC-link capacitors. Voltage step-up feature, high efficiency, integrated structure, and bidirectional power flow are the main contribution of this new configuration. A modified space vector modulation (SVM) strategy is presented to generate appropriate pulses for the converter. This modulation method also eliminates the effect of capacitors voltage imbalance problem on the inverter output voltage and current. Simulation and experimental results are presented and investigated to confirm the performance …


A New Grid Partitioning Technology For Location Privacy Protection, Yue Sun, Lei Zhang, Jing Li, Zhen Zhang Jan 2020

A New Grid Partitioning Technology For Location Privacy Protection, Yue Sun, Lei Zhang, Jing Li, Zhen Zhang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Nowadays, the location-based service (LBS) has become an essential part of convenient service in people's daily life. However, the untrusted LBS servers can store lots of information about the user, such as the user's identity, location, and destination. Then the information can be used as background knowledge and combined with the query frequency of the user to launch the inference attack to obtain user's privacy. In most of the existing schemes, the author considers the algorithm of virtual location selection from the historical location of the user. However, the LBS server can infer the user's location information on the historical …


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 Review On Embedded Field Programmable Gate Array Architectures And Configuration Tools, Khouloud Bouaziz, Abdulfattah M. Obeid, Sonda Chtourou, Mohamed Abid Jan 2020

A Review On Embedded Field Programmable Gate Array Architectures And Configuration Tools, Khouloud Bouaziz, Abdulfattah M. Obeid, Sonda Chtourou, Mohamed Abid

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Nowadays, systems-on-chip have reached a level where nonrecurring engineering costs have become a great challenge due to the increase of design complexity and postfabrication errors. Embedded field programmable gate arrays (eFPGAs) represent a viable alternative to overcome these issues since they provide postmanufacturing flexibility that can reduce the number of chip redesigns and amortize chip fabrication cost. In this paper, we present an overview on eFPGAs and their architectures, computer aided design (CAD) tools, and design challenges. An eFPGA must be well-designed and accompanied by an optimized CAD tool suite to respond to target application's requirements in terms of power …


Design Of A High Performance Narrowband Low Noise Amplifier Using An On-Chip Orthogonal Series Stacked Differential Fractal Inductor For 5g Applications, Sunil Kumar Tumma, Bheemarao Nistala Jan 2020

Design Of A High Performance Narrowband Low Noise Amplifier Using An On-Chip Orthogonal Series Stacked Differential Fractal Inductor For 5g Applications, Sunil Kumar Tumma, Bheemarao Nistala

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Inductors play a crucial role in the design of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) and they typically consume a considerably large area and have a low-quality factor at high frequencies. The employment of fractal structure in on-chip inductors helps in improving the quality factor and also reduces the overall area besides improving the inductance value. In this paper, an orthogonal series stacked differential fractal inductor is proposed and the same is used to design a low noise amplifier (LNA) for 5G band (27--30 GHz) applications. The proposed inductor is fabricated on a multilayer printed circuit board and the measurement results …


A Novel Semisupervised Classification Method Via Membership And Polyhedral Conic Functions, Nur Uylaş Sati Jan 2020

A Novel Semisupervised Classification Method Via Membership And Polyhedral Conic Functions, Nur Uylaş Sati

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In real-world problems, finding sufficient labeled data for defining classification rules is very difficult. This paper suggests a new semisupervised multiclass classification method. In the initialization, new membership functions are defined by utilizing the labeled data?Äôs medoids and means. Then the unlabeled points are labeled with the class of the highest membership value. In the supervised learning phase, separation via the polyhedral conic functions (PCFs) approach is improved by using defined membership values in the linear programming problem. The suggested algorithm is tested on real-world datasets and compared with the state-of-the-art semisupervised methods. The results obtained indicate that the suggested …


Integrated Topic Modeling And Sentiment Analysis: A Review Rating Prediction Approach For Recommender Systems, Anbazhagan Mahadevan, Michael Arock Jan 2020

Integrated Topic Modeling And Sentiment Analysis: A Review Rating Prediction Approach For Recommender Systems, Anbazhagan Mahadevan, Michael Arock

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Recommender systems (RSs) are running behind E-commerce websites to recommend items that are likely to be bought by users. Most of the existing RSs are relying on mere star ratings while making recommendations. However, ratings alone cannot help RSs make accurate recommendations, as they cannot properly capture sentiments expressed towards various aspects of the items. The other rich and expressive source of information available that can help make accurate recommendations is user reviews. Because of their voluminous nature, reviews lead to the information overloading problem. Hence, drawing out the user opinion from reviews is a decisive job. Therefore, this paper …


Retinal Vessel Segmentation Using Modified Symmetrical Local Threshold, Umar Özgünalp Jan 2020

Retinal Vessel Segmentation Using Modified Symmetrical Local Threshold, Umar Özgünalp

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Retinal vessel segmentation is important for the identification of many diseases including glaucoma, hypertensive retinopathy, diabetes, and hypertension. Moreover, retinal vessel diameter is associated with cardiovascular mortality. Accurate detection of blood vessels improves the detection of exudates in color fundus images, as well as detection of the retinal nerve, optic disc, or fovea. A retinal vessel is a darker stripe on a lighter background. Thus, the objective is very similar to the lane detection task for intelligent vehicles. A lane on a road is a light stripe on a darker background (i.e. asphalt). For lane detection, the symmetrical local threshold …


Detailed Modeling Of A Thermoelectric Generator For Maximum Power Point Tracking, Hayati̇ Mamur, Yusuf Çoban Jan 2020

Detailed Modeling Of A Thermoelectric Generator For Maximum Power Point Tracking, Hayati̇ Mamur, Yusuf Çoban

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) are used in small power applications to generate electrical energy from waste heats. Maximum power is obtained when the connected load to the ends of TEGs matches their internal resistance. However, impedance matching cannot always be ensured. Therefore, TEGs operate at lower efficiency. For this reason, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms are utilized. In this study, both TEGs and a boost converter with MPPT were modeled together. Detailed modeling, simulation, and verification of TEGs depending on the Seebeck coefficient, the hot/cold side temperatures, and the number of modules in MATLAB/Simulink were carried out. In addition, a …


Fuzzy C-Means Directional Clustering (Fcmdc) Algorithm Using Trigonometric Approximation, Orhan Kesemen, Özge Tezel, Eda Özkul, Buğra Kaan Ti̇ryaki̇ Jan 2020

Fuzzy C-Means Directional Clustering (Fcmdc) Algorithm Using Trigonometric Approximation, Orhan Kesemen, Özge Tezel, Eda Özkul, Buğra Kaan Ti̇ryaki̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Cluster analysis is widely used in data analysis. Statistical data analysis is generally performed on the linear data. If the data has directional structure, classical statistical methods cannot be applied directly to it. This study aims to improve a new directional clustering algorithm which is based on trigonometric approximation. The trigonometric approximation is used for both descriptive statistics and clustering of directional data. In this paper, the fuzzy clustering algorithms (FCD and FCM4DD) improved for directional data and the proposed method are carried out on some numerical and real data examples, and the simulation results are presented. Consequently, these results …


Consumer Loans' First Payment Default Detection: A Predictive Model, Utku Koç, Türkan Sevgi̇li̇ Jan 2020

Consumer Loans' First Payment Default Detection: A Predictive Model, Utku Koç, Türkan Sevgi̇li̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A default loan (also called nonperforming loan) occurs when there is a failure to meet bank conditions and repayment cannot be made in accordance with the terms of the loan which has reached its maturity. In this study, we provide a predictive analysis of the consumer behavior concerning a loan?Äôs first payment default (FPD) using a real dataset of consumer loans with approximately 600,000 records from a bank. We use logistic regression, naive Bayes, support vector machine, and random forest on oversampled and undersampled data to build eight different models to predict FPD loans. A two-class random forest using undersampling …


Applying Deep Learning Models To Structural Mri For Stage Prediction Of Alzheimer's Disease, Altuğ Yi̇ği̇t, Zerri̇n Işik Jan 2020

Applying Deep Learning Models To Structural Mri For Stage Prediction Of Alzheimer's Disease, Altuğ Yi̇ği̇t, Zerri̇n Işik

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Alzheimer's disease is a brain disease that causes impaired cognitive abilities in memory, concentration, planning, and speaking. Alzheimer's disease is defined as the most common cause of dementia and changes different parts of the brain. Neuroimaging, cerebrospinal fluid, and some protein abnormalities are commonly used as clinical diagnostic biomarkers. In this study, neuroimaging biomarkers were applied for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and dementia as a noninvasive method. Structural magnetic resonance (MR) brain images were used as input of the predictive model. T1 weighted volumetric MR images were reduced to two-dimensional space by several preprocessing methods for three different projections. …