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Article Citation - WoS: 20Citation - Scopus: 24A Study on the Key Soft Skills for Successful Participation of Students in Multinational Engineering Education(Tempus Publications, 2017) Fernandez-Sanz, Luis; Teresa Villalba, Maria; Amelio Medina, Jose; Misra, Sanjay; Computer EngineeringSoft-skills have proved to be a necessary complement to technical skills in today's multinational workplaces. As universities are facing the challenge of promoting internationalization and mobility in students and teachers, they have to decide how to help their students in developing these skills as well as increase their awareness on the cultural differences in multinational settings. After a long trajectory of participation in multinational educational experiences, the authors launched a survey to check if their previous findings on the preferred soft skills by educational experts and managers still remain valid after 5 years. Another goal of the study was the analysis of the link between preference for specific soft skills and cultural background in each country as characterized by Hofstede's indicators. The data collected from 123 experts from 45 different countries have confirmed the existence of a stable core set of preferred soft skills at global level and also for European countries. Results have also shown links between specific cultural indicators and preference for some soft skills.Article Citation - WoS: 172Citation - Scopus: 190Interpolative Reich-Rus Type Contractions on Partial Metric Spaces(Mdpi, 2018) Karapinar, Erdal; Agarwal, Ravi; Aydi, HassenBy giving a counter-example, we point out a gap in the paper by Karapinar (Adv. Theory Nonlinear Anal. Its Appl. 2018, 2, 85-87) where the given fixed point may be not unique and we present the corrected version. We also state the celebrated fixed point theorem of Reich-Rus-Ciric in the framework of complete partial metric spaces, by taking the interpolation theory into account. Some examples are provided where the main result in papers by Reich (Can. Math. Bull. 1971, 14, 121-124; Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. 1972, 4, 26-42 and Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. 1971, 4, 1-11.) is not applicable.Article Citation - WoS: 27Citation - Scopus: 28Generalized Meir-Keeler Type Contractions on g-metric Spaces(Elsevier Science inc, 2013) Mustafa, Zead; Aydi, Hassen; Karapinar, ErdalIn this manuscript, we introduce generalized Meir-Keeler type contractions over G-metric spaces. Moreover, we show that every orbitally continuous generalized Meir-Keeler type contraction has a unique fixed point on complete G-metric spaces. We illustrate our results by some given examples. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 82Citation - Scopus: 87On Common Fixed Points in g-metric Spaces Using (e.a) Property(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2012) Mustafa, Zead; Aydi, Hassen; Karapinar, ErdalIn this paper, we introduce some new types of pairs of mappings (f, g) on G-metric spaces called G-weakly commuting of type G(f) and G-R-weakly commuting of type G(f). We obtain also several common fixed point results by using the (E.A) property. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Article Impact of Operations on a Series Per Reliability Perspective(2025) Yucesan, OngunThe Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) figures are the average of test durations between failure observations formed into a series. They can be seen to suit classical statistical distributions. An equally possible condition is that they are not stationary as a contradiction to the previous statement. In such worse conditions accepting availability of a concealed statistical property, this paper tries to identify the impact of Bi-sample Differencing and Bi-sample mean manipulations. In other words, operating on reliability observations series to reveal concealed statistical knowledge. Experimentation based on observation over a stationary series as a controlled experiment. As an outcome of experiments, the differencing seems to be alleviating the trend and seasonality to a degree. The bi-sample averaging is observed to be hiding variant conditions.Article Citation - Scopus: 1Maintaining Software Through Bit-Parallelism and Hashing the Parameterized q-grams(Univ Osijek, Tech Fac, 2012) Prasad, Rajesh; Agarwal, Suneeta; Misra, Sanjay; Sharma, Anuj Kumar; Singh, Alok; Computer EngineeringIn the software maintenance, it is often required to find duplicity present in the codes. Two code fragments are equivalent, if one can be transformed into the other via consistent renaming of identifiers, literals and variables. This equivalency can be detected by parameterized string matching. In this matching, a given pattern is said to match with a substring of the text, if there exists a one-to-one correspondence between symbols of and symbols of. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for this problem by using both the overlapping and non-overlapping q-gram. We show the effect of running time of the algorithm on increasing the duplicity present in the code.Article Citation - WoS: 33Citation - Scopus: 37Discrete Sizing Optimization of Steel Trusses Under Multiple Displacement Constraints and Load Cases Using Guided Stochastic Search Technique(Springer, 2015) Azad, S. Kazemzadeh; Hasancebi, O.The guided stochastic search (GSS) is a computationally efficient design optimization technique, which is originally developed for discrete sizing optimization problems of steel trusses with a single displacement constraint under a single load case. The present study aims to investigate the GSS in a more general class of truss sizing optimization problems subject to multiple displacement constraints and load cases. To this end, enhancements of the GSS are proposed in the form of two alternative approaches that enable the technique to deal with multiple displacement/load cases. The first approach implements a methodology in which the most critical displacement direction is considered only when guiding the search process. The second approach, however, takes into account the cumulative effect of all the critical displacement directions in the course of optimization. Advantage of the integrated force method of structural analysis is also utilized for further reduction of the computational effort in these approaches. The proposed enhancements of GSS are investigated and compared with some selected techniques of design optimization through six truss structures that are sized for minimum weight. The numerical results reveal that both enhancements generally provide promising solutions with an insignificant computational effort.Article Evaluation of Turkish Health System Capacity at Provincial Level by WISP Method Based on Weighting Methods(2025) Bulut, TevfikAmaç: Bu çalışmanın birincil amacı, Türkiye sağlık sisteminin kapasite ve kapasite açıklarını il düzeyinde göreceli olarak değerlendirmektir. Çalışmanın ikincil amacı ise R programlama dilinde kullanılan ağırlıklandırma yöntemleri için uygulama algoritmaları geliştirmektir. Yöntem: Sağlık sistemi kapasitesinin değerlendirilmesinde kullanılan karar kriterleri CRITIC, Shannon Entropy ve NMV yöntemleri ile ağırlıklandırılmıştır. İllerin sağlık sistemi kapasitesini değerlendirmek için WISP yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Veriler Sağlık Bakanlığı'nın 2022 Sağlık İstatistikleri Yıllığı'ndan alınmıştır. Bulgular: Tunceli, Bayburt ve Kilis, CRITIC tabanlı WISP skorlarına göre Türkiye'de sağlık sistemi kapasitesi açısından 81 il arasında optimal çözüme en yakın üç ildir. Buna karşılık, Bursa, İstanbul ve Şanlıurfa optimal çözümden en uzak üç ildir. Özgünlük: İl düzeyinde, sağlık sisteminin kapasitesindeki boşlukları tespit edebilir ve geliştirebiliriz. Kendi kendine yeterli sağlık sistemi kapasitesi oluşturabilir ve sağlık sistemini daha dirençli hale getirilebilir. Öte yandan, ağırlıklandırma yöntemleri için uygulama algoritmalarının geliştirilmesi önemli bir katkıdır. Böylece karar vericiler küçük ve özellikle büyük ölçekli veri setleri üzerinde anlık çözümler üretebilir.Article Posthumanizm Tartışmasının Düşündürdükleri: Haddini Bilmek ile Haddini Aşmak Arasında İnsan(2021) Gençoğlu, FundaBu makale posthümanizm tartışmalarının ancak kadim ‘insan nedir’ sorusunun geçmişten bugüne doğurmuşolduğu epistemolojik-etik-politik tartışmalarla birlikte ele alındığında bir açılım sağlayabileceğini iddiaetmekte ve bunu gösterebilmek için, siyasal düşünceler tarihinde insanın düşünülüş biçimlerine dair orijinal birkategorizasyon sunmaktadır. Bu çalışmada geliştirilen ve özgün bir katkı olması umulan kategorizasyona göre,epistemolojik-etik-politik düzlemlerde insan nedir sorusunun ele alınış biçimi ve verilen yanıtlar, ilk bakıştabüyük bir çeşitlilik/çoğulluk gösteriyor olmasına rağmen, esas itibariyle bu arayış bir sarkacın iki uçtasalınımını andırmaktadır. Bilindiği üzere, siyasal düşüncenin başlangıcı, yaygın olarak, mottoları ‘İnsan herşeyin ölçüsüdür’ olan Sofistler’e dayandırılır. Bu motto, burada bizim için bahsi geçen sarkacın hareketinebaşladığı taraf olarak ele alınmaktadır; diğer tarafta da onlardan hemen sonra gelen, siyasal düşüncede bir çığıraçtığı konusunda hemen herkesin hemfikir olduğu Sokrates ve onun ‘Kendini bil’ öğretisi bulunmaktadır. Ve,bu makalenin önermesine göre, bu sarkacın bu ikisi arasındaki salınımı o tarihten bu yana hiç durmamıştır.İkinci olarak, bu makale “insan gerçekte nedir?” sorusunun ayrılmaz biçimde özgürleşme/özgürlük sorunsalıylaiç içe olduğunu öne sürmektedir. İnsanın ‘Ben neyim’ sorusuna verdiği cevap ‘Ne yaparsam/ne olursa özgürolurum?’ sorusuna verdiği cevapla iç içedir. Söz konusu kategorizasyonun terimleriyle, insan haddinibilince/bilirse mi özgür olur, haddini aşabilince/aşabilirse mi? Üçüncü olarak, bu makale posthümanizmin buikili karşıtlık arasındaki salınıma bir dokunuş olduğunu öne sürmektedir. Posthümanizm ikili karşıtlıklar,özcülük ve keskin ayrımlar karşısında konumlandığı, buna karşılık olumsallık, devinim ve geçirgenlik gibikavramların altını çizmekte olan bir yaklaşım olarak insanı ne salt haddini aşabilmek üzerindentanımlamaktadır ne salt haddini bilmek üzerinden; aynı zamanda da posthümanizm insanı hem haddiniaşabilmek üzerinden tanımlamaktadır hem de haddini bilmek üzerinden. Bu durumda özgürlük sorunsalı birazdaha karmaşık hale gelmektedir. İnsanın özgürleşmesi ne zaman haddini bileceğine ne zaman haddini aşmayacesaret/cüret edeceğine karar verebilmesiyle ilişkilidir.Article Citation - Scopus: 1A User Task Design Notation for Improved Software Design(PeerJ Inc., 2021) Ozcan,E.; Topalli,D.; Tokdemir,G.; Cagiltay,N.E.System design is recognized as one of the most critical components of a software system that bridges system requirements and coding. System design also has a significant impact on testing and maintenance activities, and on further improvements during the lifespan of the software system. Software design should reflect all necessary components of the requirements in a clear and understandable manner by all stakeholders of the software system. To distinguish system elements, separation of concerns in software design is suggested. In this respect, identification of the user tasks, i.e., the tasks that need to be performed by the user, is not currently reflected explicitly in system design documents. Our main assumption in this study is that software quality can be improved significantly by clearly identifying the user tasks from those that need to be performed by the computer system itself. Additionally, what we propose has the potential to better reflect the user requirements and main objectives of the system on the software design and thereby to improve software quality. The main aim of this study is to introduce a novel notation for software developers in the frame of UML Activity Diagram (UMLAD) that enables designers to identify the user tasks and define them separately from the system tasks. For this purpose, an extension of UML-AD, named UML-ADE (UML-Activity Diagram Extended) was proposed. Afterwards, it was implemented in a serious game case for which the specification of user tasks is extremely important. Finally, its effectiveness was analyzed and compared to UML-AD experimentally with 72 participants. The defect detection performance of the participants on both diagrams with two real-life serious game scenarios was evaluated. Results show a higher level of understandability for those using UML-ADE, which in turn may indicate a better design and higher software quality. The results encourage researchers to develop specific design representations dedicated to task design to improve system quality and to conduct further evaluations of the impact of these design on each of the above mentioned potential benefits for the software systems. © Copyright 2021 Ozcan et al.
