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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 …


A Fully Batteryless Multiinput Single Inductor Single Output Energy Harvesting Architecture, Ridvan Umaz Jan 2020

A Fully Batteryless Multiinput Single Inductor Single Output Energy Harvesting Architecture, Ridvan Umaz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Conventional energy architectures that utilize multiple ambient energy sources are initiated either by an external power supply or through the addition of an extra power source (e.g., battery) to the architecture. However, these interventions compromise the goal of a self-sustainable energy harvesting system. Moreover, conventional architectures are not effective in situations where space is limited (e.g., an artificial heart) or when access to this space is difficult (e.g., human implantable devices), due to their large battery size. Thus, conventional energy combiner circuits that use multiple energy sources are not well suited for supplying power to most applications. This paper presents …


An Arbitrary Waveform Magnetic Nanoparticle Relaxometer With An Asymmetricalthree-Section Gradiometric Receive Coil, Can Bariş Top Jan 2020

An Arbitrary Waveform Magnetic Nanoparticle Relaxometer With An Asymmetricalthree-Section Gradiometric Receive Coil, Can Bariş Top

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have a wide range of clinical applications for imaging, therapy, and biosensing. Superparamagnetic MNPs can be directly visualized with high spatiotemporal resolution using the magnetic particle imaging (MPI) modality. The image resolution of MPI depends on the relaxation properties of the MNPs. Therefore, characterization of MNP response under alternating magnetic field excitation is necessary to predict MPI imaging performance and develop optimized MNPs. Biosensing applications also make use of the change in the relaxation response of MNPs after binding to a target agent. As MNP relaxation properties change with temperature and viscosity, noninvasive probing of these microenvironmental …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


A High-Level And Adaptive Metaheuristic Selection Algorithm For Solving Highdimensional Bound-Constrained Continuous Optimization Problems, Osman Gökalp, Aybars Uğur Jan 2020

A High-Level And Adaptive Metaheuristic Selection Algorithm For Solving Highdimensional Bound-Constrained Continuous Optimization Problems, Osman Gökalp, Aybars Uğur

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Metaheuristic algorithms are used to find sufficiently good solutions for the optimization problems that are not solvable in a polynomial time. Although metaheuristics offer a general problem-solving framework and can be applied to various types of optimization problems, their performances depend heavily on the problem to be solved. Thus, hybrid metaheuristics are used to combine strong parts of different algorithms. In this study, a novel adaptive metaheuristic selection algorithm is proposed for solving bound-constrained continuous optimization problems. The developed method hybridizes artificial bee colony, differential evolution, and particle swarm optimization at a high level where each algorithm works independently from …


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. …


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

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

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

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


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 …


On Efficient Computation Of Equilibrium Under Social Coalition Structures, Buğra Çaşkurlu, Özgün Eki̇ci̇, Fati̇h Erdem Kizilkaya Jan 2020

On Efficient Computation Of Equilibrium Under Social Coalition Structures, Buğra Çaşkurlu, Özgün Eki̇ci̇, Fati̇h Erdem Kizilkaya

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In game-theoretic settings the key notion of analysis is an equilibrium, which is a profile of agent strategies such that no viable coalition of agents can improve upon their coalitional welfare by jointly changing their strategies. A Nash equilibrium, where viable coalitions are only singletons, and a super strong equilibrium, where every coalition is deemed viable, are two extreme scenarios in regard to coalition formation. A recent trend in the literature is to consider equilibrium notions that allow for coalition formation in between these two extremes and which are suitable to model social coalition structures that arise in various real-life …


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 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 …


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 …


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.


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) …


Deep Reinforcement Learning For Acceptance Strategy In Bilateral Negotiations, Yousef Razeghi, Celal Ozan Berk Yavuz, Reyhan Aydoğan Jan 2020

Deep Reinforcement Learning For Acceptance Strategy In Bilateral Negotiations, Yousef Razeghi, Celal Ozan Berk Yavuz, Reyhan Aydoğan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper introduces an acceptance strategy based on reinforcement learning for automated bilateral negotiation, where negotiating agents bargain on multiple issues in a variety of negotiation scenarios. Several acceptance strategies based on predefined rules have been introduced in the automated negotiation literature. Those rules mostly rely on some heuristics, which take time and/or utility into account. For some negotiation settings, an acceptance strategy solely based on a negotiation deadline might perform well; however, it might fail in another setting. Instead of following predefined acceptance rules, this paper presents an acceptance strategy that aims to learn whether to accept its opponent's …


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 …


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 …


Harmonic Reduction Of Svc With System Integrated Apf, Yan Xuhui, Wang Feng, Mahmood Ul Hassan, Muhammad Humayun Jan 2020

Harmonic Reduction Of Svc With System Integrated Apf, Yan Xuhui, Wang Feng, Mahmood Ul Hassan, Muhammad Humayun

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Static var compensators (svcs) are widely used to compensate for reactive power in a system. The hybrid active power filter (hapf) in combination with svc has extensively been studied in the literature to reduce harmonics generated by the svc. This study proposes a new topology of svc for three-phase systems based on a three-phase thyristor-control reactor (tcr). The harmonics generated by the tcr are minimized by an active power filter (apf), which can be realized by a reduced resonant capacitor size. A control strategy comprising feedback and feedforward control is employed to achieve good harmonic reduction and fast transient response. …