GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION

• Erdem Sarıgil (M.S., September 2012), Analysis of Web Search Queries with Very Few or No Results

• Oğuz Yılmaz (M.S., September 2012), Longitudinal Analysis of Search Engine Query Logs - Temporal Coverage

• Şadiye Alıcı (M.S., October 2011), A Result Cache Invalidation Scheme for Web Search Engines.

• Rıfat Özcan (Ph.D, September 2011), Caching Techniques for Large Scale Web Search Engines.

• Fatih Çakır (M.S., July 2011, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), Nearest-Neighbor Based Metric Functions for Indoor Scene Recognition.

• Duygu Atılgan (M.S., August 2010), Efficiency and Effectiveness of XML Keyword Search Using a Full Element-Index.

• Yunus Emre Aslan (M.S., August 2010, Co-Supervisor: Ibrahim Körpeoğlu), A Framework for the Use of Wireless Sensor Networks in Forest Fire Detection and Monitoring.

• Muhammet Baştan (Ph.D, July 2010, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), BilVideo7: Video Parsing, Indexing and Retrieval.

• Ediz Şaykol (Ph.D, September 2009, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), A Scenario-Based Query Processing Framework for Video Surveillance.

• İsmail Sengör Altıngövde (Ph.D, July 2009), Improving the Efficiency of Search Engines:  Strategiew for Focused Crawling, Searching, and Index Pruning.

• Onur Küçüktunç (M.S., July 2009, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), Content-Based Video Copy Detection using Multimodal Analysis.

• Fatih Melih Özbekoğlu (M.S., July 2009, Co-Supervisor: Ibrahim Körpeoğlu), Data Dissemination Strategies for Mobile Peer-to-Peer Information Systems with Applications to Healthcare.

• Hayati Çam (M.S., September 2008, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), Query Processing for An MPEG-7 Compliant Video Database.

• İsmet Zeki Yalnız (M.S., August 2008, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Connected Ottoman Script.

• Murat Karakaya (Ph.D, March 2008, Co-Supervisor: Ibrahim Körpeoğlu), Counteracting Free Riding in Pure Peer-to-Peer Networks.

• Tarkan Sevilmiş (M.S., November 2005, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), Automatic Detection of Salient Objects for a Video Database System.

• Özlem Nurcan Subakan (M.S., August 2005), Cluster-Based Collaborative Filtering with Inverted Indexing.

• Selim Çıracı (M.S., August 2005, Co-Supervisor: Ibrahim Körpeoğlu), Reducing Query Overhead Through Route-Learning in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks.

• Cemil Alper (M.S., August 2004, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), Semantic Query Execution in a Video Database System.

• Selma Ayşe Özel (Ph.D, January 2004), Metadata-Based and Personalized Web Querying.

• Gökhan Yavaş (M.S., December 2003), Using a Data Mining Approach for Prediction of User Movements in Mobile Environments.

• Aykut Ünal (M.S., September 2002), Discovering Associations from Event Histories at Multiple Time Granularities.

• Mustafa Kutlutürk (M.S., August 2002), Implementation of a Topic Map Data Model for a Web-Based Information Resource.

• Eyüp Sabri Konak (M.S., August 2002, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), A Content-Based Image Retrieval System for Texture and Color Queries.

• Mehmet Emin Dönderler (Ph.D, July 2002, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), Data Modelling and Querying for Video Databases.

• Gülay Ünel (M.S., July 2002, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), An Efficient Query Optimization Strategy for Spatio-Temporal Queries in Video Databases.

• Umut Arslan (M.S., January 2002, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), A Semantic Data Model and Query Language for Video Databases.

• İsmail Sengör Altıngövde (M.S., September 2001), Topic-Centric Querying of Web Resources.

• Ediz Şaykol (M.S., September 2001, Co-Supervisor: Uğur Güdükbay), Web-Based User Interface for Query Specification in a Video Database System.

• İlker Yoncacı (M.S., September 2001), An Efficient Method for Generating Updates in Processing Location Dependent Continuous Queries.

• Yücel Saygın (Ph.D, August 2001), Active and Mobile Data Management Through Event History Mining.

• Murat Karakaya (M.S., August 2000), An Efficient Broadcast Scheduling Algorithm for Pull-Based Mobile Environments.

• Tuba Yavuz (M.S., August 1999), An Index Structure for Moving Objects in Video Databases.

• H. Gökmen Gök (M.S., January 1999), Processing of Continuous Queries from Moving Objects in Mobile Computing Systems.

• Anastasia Sotnikova (M.S., August 1998), An Evaluation of Methodological Issues in Workflow Management.

• Ersan Kayan (M.S., January 1998), An Evaluation of Transaction Management Issues in Mobile Real-Time Database Systems.

• Ali Şaman Tosun (M.S., July 1997), Static Rule Analysis in Active Database Systems.

• Jamel Tayeb (M.S., June 1997), Design and Evaluation of Indexing Methods for Dynamic Attributes in Mobile Database Management Systems.

• Yücel Saygın (M.S., September 1996), Implementation of Parallel Nested Transactions for Nested Rule Execution in Active Databases.

• Uğur Çetintemel (M.S., July 1996), Objective: A Benchmark for Object-Oriented Active Database Systems.

• Timuçin Devirmis (M.S., July 1996), Transaction Execution in Multidatabase Systems.

• Yiğit Kulabaş (M.S., January 1996), Heuristics for Inter-Query Optimization in Database Systems.

• Yasemin Turkan (M.S., June 1995), Global Memory Management in Client-Server Systems.