GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION

• Ediz Saykol (Ph.D, September 2009, Co-Supervisor: Ugur Gudukbay), A Scenario-Based Query Processing Framework for Video Surveillance.

• Ismail 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: Ugur Gudukbay), Content-Based Video Copy Detection using Multimodal Analysis.

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

• Hayati Cam (M.S., September 2008, Co-Supervisor: Ugur Gudukbay), Query Processing for An MPEG-7 Compliant Video Database.

• Ismet Zeki Yalniz (M.S., August 2008, Co-Supervisor: Ugur Gudukbay), Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Connected Ottoman Script.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Mehmet Emin Donderler (Ph.D, July 2002, Co-Supervisor: Ugur Gudukbay), Data Modelling and Querying for Video Databases.

• Gulay Unel (M.S., July 2002, Co-Supervisor: Ugur Gudukbay), An Efficient Query Optimization Strategy for Spatio-Temporal Queries in Video Databases.

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

• Ismail Sengor Altingovde (M.S., September 2001), Topic-Centric Querying of Web Resources.

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

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

• Yucel Saygin (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. Gokmen Gok (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 Saman 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.

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

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

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

• Yigit Kulabas (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.