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Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 3Modeling of Kappa Factor Using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines: Application To the Western Türkiye Ground Motion Dataset(Springer, 2024) Kurtulmus, Tevfik Ozgur; Yerlikaya-Ozkurt, Fatma; Askan, AysegulThe recent seismic activity on Turkiye's west coast, especially in the Aegean Sea region, shows that this region requires further attention. The region has significant seismic hazards because of its location in an active tectonic regime of North-South extension with multiple basin structures on soft soil deposits. Recently, despite being 70 km from the earthquake source, the Samos event (with a moment magnitude of 7.0 on October 30, 2020) caused significant localized damage and collapse in the Izmir city center due to a combination of basin effects and structural susceptibility. Despite this activity, research on site characterization and site response modeling, such as local velocity models and kappa estimates, remains sparse in this region. Kappa values display regional characteristics, necessitating the use of local kappa estimations from previous earthquake data in region-specific applications. Kappa estimates are multivariate and incorporate several characteristics such as magnitude and distance. In this study, we assess and predict the trend in mean kappa values using three-component strong-ground motion data from accelerometer sites with known VS30 values throughout western Turkiye. Multiple linear regression (MLR) and multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) were used to build the prediction models. The effects of epicentral distance Repi, magnitude Mw, and site class (VS30) were investigated, and the contributions of each parameter were examined using a large dataset containing recent seismic activity. The models were evaluated using well-known statistical accuracy criteria for kappa assessment. In all performance measures, the MARS model outperforms the MLR model across the selected sites.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 2Reinforcement Learning for Intrusion Detection(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023) Saad,A.M.S.E.; Yildiz,B.Network-based technologies such as cloud computing, web services, and Internet of Things systems are becoming widely used due to their flexibility and preeminence. On the other hand, the exponential proliferation of network-based technologies exacerbated network security concerns. Intrusion takes an important share in the security concerns surrounding network-based technologies. Developing a robust intrusion detection system is crucial to solving the intrusion problem and ensuring the secure delivery of network-based technologies and services. In this paper, we propose a novel approach using deep reinforcement learning to detect intrusions to make network applications more secure, reliable, and efficient. As for the reinforcement learning approach, Deep Q-learning is used alongside a custom-built Gym environment that mimics network attacks and guides the learning process. The NSL-KDD dataset is used to create the reinforcement learning environment to train and evaluate the proposed model. The experimental results show that our proposed reinforcement learning approach outperforms other related solutions in the literature, achieving an accuracy that exceeds 93%. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 7A Simplified Method Based on Rssi Fingerprinting for Iot Device Localization in Smart Cities(Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers inc, 2024) Dogan, Deren; Dalveren, Yaser; Kara, Ali; Derawi, MohammadThe Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly improved location-based services in smart cities, such as automated public transportation and traffic management. Estimating the location of connected devices is a critical problem. Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies are used for localization due to their low power consumption and long communication range. Recent advances in Machine Learning have made Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) fingerprinting with LPWAN technologies effective. However, this requires a connection between devices and gateways or base stations, which can increase network deployment, maintenance, and installation costs. This study proposes a cost-effective RSSI fingerprinting solution using IQRF technology for IoT device localization. The region of interest is divided into grids to provide training locations, and measurements are conducted to create a training dataset containing RSSI fingerprints. Pattern matching is performed to localize the device by comparing the fingerprint of the end device with the fingerprints in the created database. To evaluate the efficiency of the proposed solution, measurements were conducted in a short-range local area ( $80\times 30$ m) at 868 MHz. In the measurements, four IQRF nodes were utilized to receive the RSSIs from a transmitting IQRF node. The performances of well-known ML classifiers on the created dataset are then comparatively assessed in terms of test accuracy, prediction speed, and training time. According to the results, the Bagged Trees classifier demonstrated the highest accuracy with 96.87%. However, with an accuracy of 95.69%, the Weighted k-NN could also be a reasonable option for real-world implementations due to its faster prediction speed (37615 obs/s) and lower training time (28.1 s). To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first attempt to explore the feasibility of the IQRF networks to develop a RSSI fingerprinting-based IoT device localization in the literature. The promising results suggest that the proposed method could be used as a low-cost alternative for IoT device localization in short-range location-based smart city applications.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 4Convolution Neural Network (cnn) Based Automatic Sorting of Cherries(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021) Park,H.; Khan,M.U.Cherries are spring fruits enriched with nutrients, and are easily available in food markets around the world. Due to their excess demand, many enterprises solely focused on their processing. Cherries are especially susceptible to pathological-, physiological-diseases and structural degradation due to their soft outer skin. The post-harvest life of the fruit is limited by various characteristics. The agricultural industry has also been at the forefront to get benefits from the advanced machine learning tools. This study presents an image processing-based system for sorting cherries using the convolutional neural network (CNN). For this study, Prunus avium L cherries of export quality, available in Turkey, tagged as ‘0900 Ziraat’, are used. Surprisingly, there exists no dataset for these cherries; hence, we developed our dataset. Through the proposed approach based upon U-Net, the binary classification accuracy of 99% is achieved. Clear identification is demonstrated by the test results of varying mixture ratios of good and bad cherries. It can therefore be said that for cherry sorting and grading, U-Net can be applied as a reliable and promising machine learning tool. ©2021 IEEEConference Object A Comparison of Neural Network Approaches for Network Intrusion Detection(Springer international Publishing Ag, 2020) Oney, Mehmet Ugur; Peker, SerhatNowadays, network intrusion detection is an important area of research in computer network security, and the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become increasingly popular in this field. Despite this, the research concerning comparison of artificial neural network architectures in the network intrusion detection is a relatively insufficient. To make up for this lack, this study aims to examine the neural network architectures in network intrusion detection to determine which architecture performs best, and to examine the effects of the architectural components, such as optimization functions, activation functions, learning momentum on the performance. For this purpose, 6480 neural networks were generated, their performances were evaluated by conducting a series of experiments on KDD99 dataset, and the results were reported. This study will be a useful reference to researchers and practitioners hoping to use ANNs in network intrusion detection.Article Citation - WoS: 10Citation - Scopus: 16Student Engagement Research Trends of Past 10 Years: a Machine Learning-Based Analysis of 42,000 Research Articles(Springer, 2023) Gurcan, Fatih; Erdogdu, Fatih; Cagiltay, Nergiz Ercil; Cagiltay, KursatStudent engagement is critical for both academic achievement and learner satisfaction because it promotes successful learning outcomes. Despite its importance in various learning environments, research into the trends and themes of student engagement is scarce. In this regard, topic modeling, a machine learning technique, allows for the analysis of large amounts of content in any field. Thus, topic modeling provides a systematic methodology for identifying research themes, trends, and application areas in a comprehensive framework. In the literature, there is a lack of topic modeling-based studies that analyze the holistic landscape of student engagement research. Such research is important for identifying wide-ranging topics and trends in the field and guiding researchers and educators. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze student engagement research using a topic modeling approach and to reveal research interests and trends with their temporal development, thereby addressing a lack of research in this area. To this end, this study analyzed 42,517 peer-reviewed journal articles published from 2010 to 2019 using machine learning techniques. According to our findings, two new dimensions, "Community Engagement" and "School Engagement", were identified in addition to the existing ones. It is also envisaged that the next period of research and applications in student engagement will focus on the motivation-oriented tools and methods, dimensions of student engagement, such as social and behavioral engagement, and specific learning contexts such as English as a Foreign Language "EFL" and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math "STEM".Article Citation - WoS: 14Citation - Scopus: 17Enhancement of Quality and Quantity of Woody Biomass Produced in Forests Using Machine Learning Algorithms(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2023) Peng, Wei; Sadaghiani, Omid KarimiForest is considered a significant source of woody biomass production. Sustainable production of wood, lower emittance of CO2 from burning, and lower amount of sulfur and heavy metals are the advantages of wood rather than fossil fuels. The quality and quantity of woody biomass production are a function of some operations including genetic modifications, high-quality forestry, evaluation, monitoring, storage, and transportation. Due to surveying numerous related works, it was found that there is a considerable reviewing gap in analyzing and collecting the applications of Machine Learning in the quality and quantity of woody biomass. To fill this gap in the current work, the above-mentioned operations are explained followed by the applications of Machine Learning algorithms. Conclusively, Machine Learning and Deep Learning can be employed in estimating main effective factors on trees growth, classification of seeds, trees, and regions, as well as providing decision-making tools for farmers or governors, evaluation of biomass, understanding the relation between the woody bimass internal structure and bio-fuel production, the ultimate and proximate analyses, prediction of wood contents and dimensions, determination of the proportion of mixed woody materials, monitoring for early disease identifi-cation and classification, classifying trees diseases, estimating evapotranspiration, collecting information about forest regions and its quality, nitrogen concentration in trees, choosing viable storage sites for storage depots and improving the solution, classifying different filling levels in silage, estimating acetic acid synthesis and aerobic reactions in silage, determining crop quantity in silo, estimating the methane production, and monitoring and predicting water content, quality and quantity of stored biomass, forecasting the demand, path way and on-time performance predicting, truck traffic predicting, and behavioral analysis and facility planning.Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 10Beyond Rouge: a Comprehensive Evaluation Metric for Abstractive Summarization Leveraging Similarity, Entailment, and Acceptability(World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd, 2024) Briman, Mohammed Khalid Hilmi; Yıldız, Beytullah; Yildiz, Beytullah; Yıldız, BeytullahA vast amount of textual information on the internet has amplified the importance of text summarization models. Abstractive summarization generates original words and sentences that may not exist in the source document to be summarized. Such abstractive models may suffer from shortcomings such as linguistic acceptability and hallucinations. Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (ROUGE) is a metric commonly used to evaluate abstractive summarization models. However, due to its n-gram-based approach, it ignores several critical linguistic aspects. In this work, we propose Similarity, Entailment, and Acceptability Score (SEAScore), an automatic evaluation metric for evaluating abstractive text summarization models using the power of state-of-the-art pre-trained language models. SEAScore comprises three language models (LMs) that extract meaningful linguistic features from candidate and reference summaries and a weighted sum aggregator that computes an evaluation score. Experimental results show that our LM-based SEAScore metric correlates better with human judgment than standard evaluation metrics such as ROUGE-N and BERTScore.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 2AI-Driven Drought Management System: A Turkish Case Study(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023) Sabamehr,M.; Ekin,C.C.Nowadays, drought is one of the trending topics in the world that has turned into a challenge for the world. By developing countries and cities worldwide, especially in the economic aspect, governments started to damage the environment such as through the use of fossil fuels, pollution of the seas, unregulated use of fresh water also deforestation for personal purposes. The presented research aims to change the format of drought mitigation strategies from traditional ways into the up to date treats. Leveraging AI technologies, including machine learning algorithms and data analytics, a comprehensive AI-driven drought management system is designed and implemented. In this system, inconsistent data have been obtained from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry organization and transformed into insightful data and analyzed in real-Time style to provide the status of agricultural products in Turkey. This research contributes to the fields of environmental science and agriculture by innovatively augmenting traditional approaches with AI-driven solutions. Ultimately, our research offers a means to monitor weather conditions in different regions of Turkey, moving beyond manual drought prediction and guesswork that were prevalent in previous systems. Additionally, it facilitates the evaluation of vegetation health by considering precipitation and temperature averages in each area. © 2023 IEEE.Article Citation - WoS: 12Citation - Scopus: 20A Hybrid Approach for Predicting Customers' Individual Purchase Behavior(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2017) Peker, Serhat; Kocyigit, Altan; Eren, P. ErhanPurpose - Predicting customers' purchase behaviors is a challenging task. The literature has introduced the individual-level and the segment-based predictive modeling approaches for this purpose. Each method has its own advantages and drawbacks, and performs in certain cases. The purpose of this paper is to propose a hybrid approach which predicts customers' individual purchase behaviors and reduces the limitations of these two methods by combining the advantages of them. Design/methodology/approach - The proposed hybrid approach is established based on individual-level and segment-based approaches and utilizes the historical transactional data and predictive algorithms to generate predictions. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is experimentally evaluated in the domain of supermarket shopping by using real-world data and using five popular machine learning classification algorithms including logistic regression, decision trees, support vector machines, neural networks and random forests. Findings - A comparison of results shows that the proposed hybrid approach substantially outperforms the individual-level and the segment-based approaches in terms of prediction coverage while maintaining roughly comparable prediction accuracy to the individual-level method. Moreover, the experimental results demonstrate that logistic regression performs better than the other classifiers in predicting customer purchase behavior. Practical implications - The study concludes that the proposed approach would be beneficial for enterprises in terms of designing customized services and one-to-one marketing strategies. Originality/value - This study is the first attempt to adopt a hybrid approach combining individual-level and segment-based approaches to predict customers' individual purchase behaviors.
