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Comparison Of Ml Algorithms To Distinguish Between Human Or Human-Like Targets Using The Hog Features Of Range-Time And Range-Doppler Images In Through-The-Wall Applications, Yunus Emre Acar, İsmai̇l Saritaş, Ercan Yaldiz Sep 2022

Comparison Of Ml Algorithms To Distinguish Between Human Or Human-Like Targets Using The Hog Features Of Range-Time And Range-Doppler Images In Through-The-Wall Applications, Yunus Emre Acar, İsmai̇l Saritaş, Ercan Yaldiz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

When detecting the human targets behind walls, false detections occur for many systematic and environmental reasons. Identifying and eliminating these false detections is of great importance for many applications. This study investigates the potential of machine learning (ML) algorithms to distinguish between the human and human-like targets behind walls. For this purpose, a stepped-frequency continuous-wave (SFCW) radar has been set up. Experiments have been carried out with real human targets and moving plates imitating a regular breath of a healthy human. Unlike conventional methods, human and human-like returns are classified using range-Doppler images containing range and Doppler information. Then, the …


Building A Surrogate Model Of A Perfect Electric Conductor Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion And The Characteristic Mode Analysis, Adem Yilmaz, Hulusi̇ Açikgöz, Alaaldeen Barakat Ahmed Elrouby Sep 2022

Building A Surrogate Model Of A Perfect Electric Conductor Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion And The Characteristic Mode Analysis, Adem Yilmaz, Hulusi̇ Açikgöz, Alaaldeen Barakat Ahmed Elrouby

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A surrogate model for a perfect electric conductor plate is built by using the polynomial chaos expansion method. The plate is excited via four capacitive coupling elements for which the locations are determined by the analysis of the current distribution for each mode provided by the characteristic mode analysis. A numerical model based on the method of moments is then created to generate a database needed to build the surrogate model. Radiation patterns calculated by the surrogate model are compared with those given by the numerical model. The results show that the surrogate model can mimic the numerical model and …


Inserting Of Heuristic Techniques Into The Stability Regions For Multiarea Load Frequency Control Systems With Time Delays, Mustafa Saka, Şahi̇n Sönmez, İbrahi̇m Eke, Haluk Gözde, Müslüm Cengi̇z Taplamacioğlu, Saffet Ayasun Sep 2022

Inserting Of Heuristic Techniques Into The Stability Regions For Multiarea Load Frequency Control Systems With Time Delays, Mustafa Saka, Şahi̇n Sönmez, İbrahi̇m Eke, Haluk Gözde, Müslüm Cengi̇z Taplamacioğlu, Saffet Ayasun

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The design and optimization of robust controller parameters are required to improve the controller performances and to keep the stability of load frequency control (LFC) system. In addition, reducing the number of iterations and computational time is very important for swiftly tuning of the controller parameters and the system to reach stability rapidly. For this purpose, this study presents the inserting of heuristic optimization techniques into stability regions method identified in proportional-integral (PI) controllers space for multiarea LFC systems with communication time delays (CTDs). This method consists of two steps: determination of stability region for the system and application of …


Learning To Play An Imperfect Information Card Game Using Reinforcement Learning, Buğra Kaan Demi̇rdöver, Ömer Baykal, Ferdanur Alpaslan Sep 2022

Learning To Play An Imperfect Information Card Game Using Reinforcement Learning, Buğra Kaan Demi̇rdöver, Ömer Baykal, Ferdanur Alpaslan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are widely popular in many areas. One of the most popular ones is gaming. Games are perfect testbeds for machine learning and artificial intelligence with various scenarios and types. This study aims to develop a self-learning intelligent agent to play the Hearts game. Hearts is one of the most popular trick-taking card games around the world. It is an imperfect information card game. In addition to having a huge state space, Hearts offers many extra challenges due to its nature. In order to ease the development process, the agent developed in the scope of this …


Design And Implementation Of A Low Cost And Portable Tactile Stimulator, Coşkun Kazma, Vecdi̇ Emre Levent, Merve Çardak, Ni̇zametti̇n Aydin Sep 2022

Design And Implementation Of A Low Cost And Portable Tactile Stimulator, Coşkun Kazma, Vecdi̇ Emre Levent, Merve Çardak, Ni̇zametti̇n Aydin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

When central nervous system has a problem, somatic area I and II respond to stimulation differently. Therefore, it is possible to identify some of the central nervous diseases when somatosensory on the fingertip is stimulated and responses are recorded and analyzed. We designed a system to stimulate the mechanoreceptors on fingertips. It is composed of a mechanical system for fingertip stimulation, an embedded controller, a control computer, and a software to control overall operation. During test, mechanoreceptors are stimulated according to the test protocols. Individuals' answers are recorded to be evaluated by the developed software. In this study, several design …


A Quantitative Evaluation Of Explainable Ai Methods Using The Depth Of Decision Tree, Nizar Abdulaziz Mahyoub Ahmed, Adi̇l Alpkoçak Sep 2022

A Quantitative Evaluation Of Explainable Ai Methods Using The Depth Of Decision Tree, Nizar Abdulaziz Mahyoub Ahmed, Adi̇l Alpkoçak

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

It is necessary to develop an explainable model to clarify how and why a medical model makes a particular decision. Local posthoc explainable AI (XAI) techniques, such as SHAP and LIME, interpret classification system predictions by displaying the most important features and rules underlying any prediction locally. Therefore, in order to compare two or more XAI methods, they must first be evaluated qualitatively or quantitatively. This paper proposes quantitative XAI evaluation metrics that are not based on biased and subjective human judgment. On the other hand, it is dependent on the depth of the decision tree (DT) to automatically and …


Track Density Imaging Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data From 1.5 T Mri Scanner, Fatma Betül Köşker, Kazim Zi̇ya Gümüş, Mahmut Tokmakçi, Ni̇yazi̇ Acer, Serkan Şenol, Mehmet Bi̇lgen Sep 2022

Track Density Imaging Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data From 1.5 T Mri Scanner, Fatma Betül Köşker, Kazim Zi̇ya Gümüş, Mahmut Tokmakçi, Ni̇yazi̇ Acer, Serkan Şenol, Mehmet Bi̇lgen

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Superresolution track density imaging (TDI) has recently been developed for achieving high resolution track density maps from low-resolution diffusion images acquired at 3 T. But, the utility of the approach is still unclear when applied to diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data acquired at lower 1.5 T magnetic field strength and thus its advantages or disadvantages awaits for exploration. We implemented an algorithm to generate track density maps of human white matter using streamline tracking and tested its performance with data acquired from two healthy volunteers at 1.5 Tesla. The effects of number of diffusion directions and seed selections on the …


Perceptual Analysis Of Distance Sampling And Transmittance Estimation Techniques In Biomedical Volume Visualization, Raazia Sosan, Muhammad Mobeen Movania, Shama Siddiqui Sep 2022

Perceptual Analysis Of Distance Sampling And Transmittance Estimation Techniques In Biomedical Volume Visualization, Raazia Sosan, Muhammad Mobeen Movania, Shama Siddiqui

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In volumetric path tracer, distance sampling and transmittance estimation techniques play a vital role in producing high-quality final rendered images. Previously, these techniques were implemented for production volume rendering, and were analyzed for faster convergence. In this article, we have augmented additional transmittance estimators including ratio tracking, residual ratio tracking and unbiased ray marcher in a GPU-based volumetric path tracer (Exposure Render) for biomedical datasets. We have also analyzed distance sampling methods and transmittance estimators perceptually using CIEDE2000 and Structural Similarity Index (SSIM). It was found that ratio and residual ratio tracking estimators performed close to each other and were …


A New Approach For Congestive Heart Failure And Arrhythmia Classification Using Downsampling Local Binary Patterns With Lstm, Süleyman Akdağ, Fatma Kuncan, Yilmaz Kaya Sep 2022

A New Approach For Congestive Heart Failure And Arrhythmia Classification Using Downsampling Local Binary Patterns With Lstm, Süleyman Akdağ, Fatma Kuncan, Yilmaz Kaya

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a vital diagnosis approach for the rapid explication and detection of various heart diseases, especially cardiac arrest, sinus rhythms, and heart failure. For this purpose, in this study, a different perspective based on downsampling one-dimensional-local binary pattern (1D-DS-LBP) and long short-term memory (LSTM) is presented for the categorization of Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. A transformation method named 1DDS-LBP has been presented for Electrocardiogram signals. The 1D-DS-LBP method processes the bigness smallness relationship between neighbors. According to the proposed method, by downsampling the signal, the histograms of 1D local binary patterns (1D-LBP) calculated from the obtained signal groups are …


Two-Layered Blockchain-Based Admission Control For Secure Uav Networks, Müge Özçevi̇k Sep 2022

Two-Layered Blockchain-Based Admission Control For Secure Uav Networks, Müge Özçevi̇k

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The frequent replacement requirement of UAVs for recharging outputs an extreme number of messaging for admission control of end-users. There are many studies that try to optimize the network capacity in an energy-efficient manner. However, they do not consider the security of data and control channels, which is the urgent requirement of 5G. Blockchain handles secure systems. However, the high numbered transactions in blockchain may cause bottlenecks while considering computational delay and throughput of end-user. In UAVs, a high percentage of battery is consumed for computational tasks instead of communication tasks. Therefore, to handle security by considering the computational needs, …


A New Network-Based Community Detection Algorithm For Disjoint Communities, Peli̇n Çeti̇n, Şahi̇n Emrah Amrahov Sep 2022

A New Network-Based Community Detection Algorithm For Disjoint Communities, Peli̇n Çeti̇n, Şahi̇n Emrah Amrahov

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A community is a group of people that shares something in common. The definition of the community can be generalized as things that have common properties. By using this definition, community detection can be used to solve different problems in various areas. In this study, we propose a new network-based community detection algorithm that can work on different types of datasets. The proposed algorithm works on unweighted graphs and determines the weight by using cosine similarity. We apply a bottom-up approach and find the disjoint communities. First, we accept each node as an independent community. Then, the merging process is …


On Approximate Nash Equilibria Of The Two-Source Connection Game, Buğra Çaşkurlu, Utku Umur Açikalin, Fati̇h Erdem Kizilkaya, Özgün Eki̇ci̇ Sep 2022

On Approximate Nash Equilibria Of The Two-Source Connection Game, Buğra Çaşkurlu, Utku Umur Açikalin, Fati̇h Erdem Kizilkaya, Özgün Eki̇ci̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The arbitrary-sharing connection game is prominent in the network formation game literature [1]. An undirected graph with positive edge weights is given, where the weight of an edge is the cost of building it. An edge is built if agents contribute a sufficient amount for its construction. For agent i, the goal is to contribute the least possible amount while assuring that the source node si is connected to the terminal node ti . In this paper, we study the special case of this game in which there are only two source nodes. In this setting, we prove that there …


Chemical Disease Relation Extraction Through The Combination Of Multiple Mention Levels: Relscan+, Stanley Chika Onye, Nazi̇fe Di̇mi̇li̇ler, Ari̇f Akkeleş Sep 2022

Chemical Disease Relation Extraction Through The Combination Of Multiple Mention Levels: Relscan+, Stanley Chika Onye, Nazi̇fe Di̇mi̇li̇ler, Ari̇f Akkeleş

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Chemical-induced disease (CID) relation extraction has been pivotal in the understanding of biological processes. A CID relation between a chemical and disease entity may be extracted either from a single sentence or from two or more adjacent sentences. We use `intrasentence level' to refer to the mention of the desired entities in the same sentence and `intersentence level? to refer to the mention of these entities in two or more adjacent sentences. This study proposes a three-phase architecture for extracting CID relations from biomedical literature by considering both sentence levels and additionally the combination of these two sentence levels which …


Presenting A Method To Detect Intrusion In Iot Through Private Blockchain, Rezvan Mahmoudie, Saeed Parsa, Amir Masoud Rahmani Sep 2022

Presenting A Method To Detect Intrusion In Iot Through Private Blockchain, Rezvan Mahmoudie, Saeed Parsa, Amir Masoud Rahmani

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Blockchain (BC) has been used as a new solution to overcome security and privacy challenges in the Internet of Things (IoT). However, recent studies have indicated that the BC has a limited scalability and is computationally costly. Also, it has significant overhead and delay in the network, which is not suitable to the nature of IoT. This article aims at implementing BC in the IoT context for smart home management, as the integration of these two technologies ensures the IoT's security and privacy. Therefore, we proposed an overlay network in private BC to optimize its compatibility with IoT by increasing …


Comparative Study Of A Bidirectional Multi-Phase Multiinput Converter For Electric Vehicles, Furkan Akar, Murat Kale, Sebahatti̇n Yalçin, Gözde Taş Jul 2022

Comparative Study Of A Bidirectional Multi-Phase Multiinput Converter For Electric Vehicles, Furkan Akar, Murat Kale, Sebahatti̇n Yalçin, Gözde Taş

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Multiinput converters allow to create hybrid energy systems in electric vehicles with a reduced part count. In addition, interleaved structures help to build efficient converters with several possible benefits, such as low current ripple and high power density. This paper proposes utilizing a multiphase multiinput converter (MPMIC), which concentrates the aforementioned advantages and presents a comprehensive comparison with its single-phase version, called single phase multiinput converter (SPMIC). After analysing their steady-state characteristics, SPMIC and MPMIC are designed considering same conditions. Then, two laboratory prototypes rated at 2.5kW output power are implemented to validate the analysis. Finally, these prototypes are compared …


Breast Cancer-Caps: A Breast Cancer Screening System Based On Capsule Network Utilizing The Multiview Breast Thermal Infrared Images, Devanshu Tiwari, Manish Dixit, Kamlesh Gupta Jul 2022

Breast Cancer-Caps: A Breast Cancer Screening System Based On Capsule Network Utilizing The Multiview Breast Thermal Infrared Images, Devanshu Tiwari, Manish Dixit, Kamlesh Gupta

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper proposed an accurate and fully automated breast cancer early screening system called the "Breast Cancer-Caps". The capsule network is used in this approach for the cancer detection in breast utilizing the thermal infrared images for the first time. This capsule network is trained with the help of Dynamic as well as Static breast thermal images dataset consisting of left, right, frontal views along with a new multiview thermal images. These multiview breast thermal images are fabricated by concatenating the conventional left, frontal and right view breast thermal images. The other current and popular deep transfer learning models such …


On The Performance Analysis Of Flexible Pairing Between Uav And Gu In Noma, Man Hee Lee, Soo Young Shin Jul 2022

On The Performance Analysis Of Flexible Pairing Between Uav And Gu In Noma, Man Hee Lee, Soo Young Shin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The wireless communications regarding unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been investigated for the usage of base stations (BS) to provide Internet access. This paper presents the usage of a UAV as a pairing user to enhance the sum capacity by flexible pairing in nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA). In the proposed scheme, the UAVs and the ground users (GUs) get paired to promote the line-of-sight (LoS) characteristics. The performance of flexible pairing is presented in terms of sum capacity, outage probability, and throughput with the LoS path loss. Channel modeling is necessary to apply flexible pairing by utilizing the LoS characteristic …


A New Automatic Bearing Fault Size Diagnosis Using Time-Frequency Images Of Cwt And Deep Transfer Learning Methods, Yilmaz Kaya, Fatma Kuncan, Hüseyi̇n Meti̇n Ertunç Jul 2022

A New Automatic Bearing Fault Size Diagnosis Using Time-Frequency Images Of Cwt And Deep Transfer Learning Methods, Yilmaz Kaya, Fatma Kuncan, Hüseyi̇n Meti̇n Ertunç

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Bearings are generally used as bearings or turning elements. Bearings are subjected to high loads and rapid speeds. Furthermore, metal-to-metal contact within the bearing makes it sensitive. In today?s machines, bearing failures disrupt the operation of the system or completely stop the system. Bearing failures that can occur can cause enormous damage to the entire system. Therefore, it is necessary to anticipate bearing failures and to carry out a regular diagnostic examination. Various systems have been developed for fault diagnosis. In recent years, deep transfer learning (DTL) methods are often preferred in current bearing diagnosis models, as they provide time …


Transmorph: A Transformer Based Morphological Disambiguator For Turkish, Hi̇lal Özer, Emi̇n Erkan Korkmaz Jul 2022

Transmorph: A Transformer Based Morphological Disambiguator For Turkish, Hi̇lal Özer, Emi̇n Erkan Korkmaz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The agglutinative nature of the Turkish language has a complex morphological structure, and there are generally more than one parse for a given word. Before further processing, morphological disambiguation is required to determine the correct morphological analysis of a word. Morphological disambiguation is one of the first and crucial steps in natural language processing since its success determines later analyses. In our proposed morphological disambiguation method, we used a transformer-based sequence-to-sequence neural network architecture. Transformers are commonly used in various NLP tasks, and they produce state-of-the-art results in machine translation. However, to the best of our knowledge, transformer-based encoder-decoders have …


Automated Question Generation And Question Answering From Turkish Texts, Fati̇h Çağatay Akyön, Ali̇ Devri̇m Eki̇n Çavuşoğlu, Cemi̇l Cengi̇z, Si̇nan Onur Altinuç, Alpteki̇n Temi̇zel Jul 2022

Automated Question Generation And Question Answering From Turkish Texts, Fati̇h Çağatay Akyön, Ali̇ Devri̇m Eki̇n Çavuşoğlu, Cemi̇l Cengi̇z, Si̇nan Onur Altinuç, Alpteki̇n Temi̇zel

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

While exam-style questions are a fundamental educational tool serving a variety of purposes, manual construction of questions is a complex process that requires training, experience and resources. Automatic question generation (QG) techniques can be utilized to satisfy the need for a continuous supply of new questions by streamlining their generation. However, compared to automatic question answering (QA), QG is a more challenging task. In this work, we fine-tune a multilingual T5 (mT5) transformer in a multitask setting for QA, QG and answer extraction tasks using Turkish QA datasets. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first academic work …


Design And Implementation Of A Bioinspired Leaf Shaped Hybrid Rectenna As A Green Energy Manufacturing Concept, Kayhan Çeli̇k, Erol Kurt Jul 2022

Design And Implementation Of A Bioinspired Leaf Shaped Hybrid Rectenna As A Green Energy Manufacturing Concept, Kayhan Çeli̇k, Erol Kurt

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this communication, the novel low cost hybrid energy harvester combining rectifying antenna with the solar cell for feeding the low power energy systems are reported. The bioinspired leaf shaped monopole antenna is designed to work in the most used communication frequency bands such as GSM-1800, UMTS-2100, WIFI-2.45 and LTE-2.65 GHz for the energy harvesting purposes and microstrip low pass filter is also added on the feeding line for the second harmonic rejection for increasing the efficiency of the harvester. The solar cell is placed on the ground plane of the designed leaf shaped antenna for using volumetric space efficiently …


A Concept For Weighting Sentiment Phrase Using Deterministic Solution Of Algebraic Equations, Maryam Jalali, Morteza Zahedi, Abdolali Basiri Jul 2022

A Concept For Weighting Sentiment Phrase Using Deterministic Solution Of Algebraic Equations, Maryam Jalali, Morteza Zahedi, Abdolali Basiri

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Many text mining methods have used statistical information as text and language-independent procedures that are not deterministic. On the other hand, grammatical structure-based methods are limited to use in a certain language and text. We aim to suggest an algorithmic algebraic equation in a deterministic and nonprobabilistic way while maintaining the advantage of language independence. We propose a mathematical approach that transforms text and labels into a set of dumb equations. By solving the equations, each word is assigned a weight that can reflect the semantic information of that word, then we use the proposed algorithm to build a novel …


Packet-Level And Ieee 802.11 Mac Frame-Level Analysis For Iot Device Identification, Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury, Azam Che Idris, Pg Emeroylariffion Abas Jul 2022

Packet-Level And Ieee 802.11 Mac Frame-Level Analysis For Iot Device Identification, Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury, Azam Che Idris, Pg Emeroylariffion Abas

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In cyberspace, a large number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices from different manufacturers with hetero-geneous functionalities are connected together. It is challenging to identify all these devices in an IoT ecosystem. The situation becomes even more complicated when the devices come from the same manufacturer and of similar types due to their analogous network communication behaviour. In this paper, a device fingerprinting (DFP) approach based on a set of combined features from packet-level and frame-level has been proposed. A large number of features has been studied, and consequently, a suitable subset of features has been selected according to gain-ratio …


Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning For Bidding In Bilateral Negotiation, Furkan Arslan, Reyhan Aydoğan Jul 2022

Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning For Bidding In Bilateral Negotiation, Furkan Arslan, Reyhan Aydoğan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Designing an effective and intelligent bidding strategy is one of the most compelling research challenges in automated negotiation, where software agents negotiate with each other to find a mutual agreement when there is a conflict of interests. Instead of designing a hand-crafted decision-making module, this work proposes a novel bidding strategy adopting an actor-critic reinforcement learning approach, which learns what to offer in a bilateral negotiation. An entropy reinforcement learning framework called Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) is applied to the bidding problem, and a self-play approach is employed to train the model. Our model learns to produce the target utility of …


A Novel Hybrid Algorithm For Morphological Analysis: Artificial Neural-Net-Xmor, Ayla Kayabaş, Ahmet Ercan Topcu, Özkan Kiliç Jul 2022

A Novel Hybrid Algorithm For Morphological Analysis: Artificial Neural-Net-Xmor, Ayla Kayabaş, Ahmet Ercan Topcu, Özkan Kiliç

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, we present a novel algorithm that combines a rule-based approach and an artificial neural network-based approach in morphological analysis. The usage of hybrid models including both techniques is evaluated for performance improvements. The proposed hybrid algorithm is based on the idea of the dynamic generation of an artificial neural network according to two-level phonological rules. In this study, the combination of linguistic parsing, a neural network-based error correction model, and statistical filtering is utilized to increase the coverage of pure morphological analysis. We experimented hybrid algorithm applying rule-based and long short-term memory-based (LSTM-based) techniques, and the results …


Content Loss And Conditional Space Relationship In Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks, Enes Eken Jul 2022

Content Loss And Conditional Space Relationship In Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks, Enes Eken

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In the machine learning community, generative models, especially generative adversarial networks (GANs) continue to be an attractive yet challenging research topic. Right after the invention of GAN, many GAN models have been proposed by the researchers with the same goal: creating better images. The first and foremost feature that a GAN model should have is that creating realistic images that cannot be distinguished from genuine ones. A large portion of the GAN models proposed to this end have a common approach which can be defined as factoring the image generation process into multiple states for decomposing the difficult task into …


Using A Static Naming Approach To Implement Remote Scope Promotion, Ayşe Yilmazer Jul 2022

Using A Static Naming Approach To Implement Remote Scope Promotion, Ayşe Yilmazer

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

GPUs employ simple coherence mechanisms and require explicit use of costly synchronization operations for data integrity. Local-scoped synchronization can be utilized to lower the performance penalty of synchronization when sharing is within a subgroup of threads. Unfortunately, in asymmetric sharing (which is an important dynamic sharing pattern), it is necessary to use global-scoped synchronization due to possible accesses by remote sharers. Remote Scope Promotion (RSP) was introduced to take advantage of local-scoped synchronization at regular accesses while using scope promotion at occasional remote accesses. First implementation of RSP makes use of a simple approach that performs costly cache operations on …


Development Of A Hybrid System Based On Abc Algorithm For Selection Of Appropriate Parameters For Disease Diagnosis From Ecg Signals, Ersi̇n Ersoy, Gazi̇ Erkan Bostanci, Mehmet Serdar Güzel Jul 2022

Development Of A Hybrid System Based On Abc Algorithm For Selection Of Appropriate Parameters For Disease Diagnosis From Ecg Signals, Ersi̇n Ersoy, Gazi̇ Erkan Bostanci, Mehmet Serdar Güzel

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The number of people who die due to cardiovascular diseases is quite high. In our study, ECG (electrocar-diogram) signals were divided into segments and waves based on temporal boundaries. Signal similarity methods such as convolution, correlation, covariance, signal peak to noise ratio (PNRS), structural similarity index (SSIM), one of the basic statistical parameters, arithmetic mean and entropy were applied to each of these sections. In addition, a square error-based new approach was applied and the difference of the signs from the mean sign was taken and used as a feature vector. The obtained feature vectors are used in the artificial …


Automatic Keyword Assignment System For Medical Research Articles Using Nearest-Neighbor Searches, Fati̇h Di̇lmaç, Adi̇l Alpkoçak Jul 2022

Automatic Keyword Assignment System For Medical Research Articles Using Nearest-Neighbor Searches, Fati̇h Di̇lmaç, Adi̇l Alpkoçak

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Assigning accurate keywords to research articles is increasingly important concern. Keywords should be selected meticulously to describe the article well since keywords play an important role in matching readers with research articles in order to reach a bigger audience. So, improper selection of keywords may result in less attraction to readers which results in degradation in its audience. Hence, we designed and developed an automatic keyword assignment system (AKAS) for research articles based on k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) and threshold-nearest neighbor (t-NN) accompanied with information retrieval systems (IRS), which is a corpus-based method by utilizing IRS using the Medline dataset in …


Analysis Of Tissue Electrical Properties On Bio-Impedance Variation Of Upper Limps, Enver Salkim Jul 2022

Analysis Of Tissue Electrical Properties On Bio-Impedance Variation Of Upper Limps, Enver Salkim

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Upper limb loss has a significant impact on individual socioeconomic life. Human-machine interface (HMI) using surface electromyography (sEMG) establishes a link between the user and a hand prosthesis to recognize hand gestures and motions which allows the control of robotic machines and prostheses to perform dexterous tasks. Numerous methods aimed to enhance hand gesture and motion recognition toward an HMI. Bio-impedance analysis (BIA) is a noninvasive way of assessing body compositions and has been recently used for hand motion interpretation using `brute force? pattern recognition. The impedance variation in the body mostly depends on the precise stimulation using appropriate electrical …