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Web Personalization Issues In Big Data And Semantic Web: Challenges Andopportunities, Bujar Raufi, Florije Ismaili, Jaumin Ajdari, Xhemal Zenuni Jan 2019

Web Personalization Issues In Big Data And Semantic Web: Challenges Andopportunities, Bujar Raufi, Florije Ismaili, Jaumin Ajdari, Xhemal Zenuni

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Web personalization is a process that utilizes a set of methods, techniques, and actions for adapting the linking structure of an information space or its content or both to user interaction preferences. The aim of personalization is to enhance the user experience by retrieving relevant resources and presenting them in a meaningful fashion. The advent of big data introduced new challenges that locate user modeling and personalization community in a new research setting. In this paper, we introduce the research challenges related to Web personalization analyzed in the context of big data and the Semantic Web. This paper also introduces …


Spatial-Aware Global Contrast Representation For Saliency Detection, Dan Xu, Shucheng Huang, Xin Zuo Jan 2019

Spatial-Aware Global Contrast Representation For Saliency Detection, Dan Xu, Shucheng Huang, Xin Zuo

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Deep learning networks have been demonstrated to be helpful when used in salient object detection and achieved superior performance than the methods that are based on low-level hand-crafted features. In this paper, we propose a novel spatial-aware contrast cube-based convolution neural network (CNN) which can further improve the detection performance. From this cube data structure, the contrast of the superpixel is extracted. Meanwhile, the spatial information is preserved during the transformation. The proposed method has two advantages compared to the existing deep learning-based saliency methods. First, instead of feeding the deep learning networks with raw image patches or pixels, we …


All-Polymer Ultrasonic Transducer Design For An Intravascular Ultrasonographyapplication, Dooyoung Hah Jan 2019

All-Polymer Ultrasonic Transducer Design For An Intravascular Ultrasonographyapplication, Dooyoung Hah

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS), a medical imaging modality, is used to obtain cross-sectional views of blood vessels from inside. In IVUS, transducers are brought to the proximity of the imaging targets so that highresolution images can be obtained at high frequency without much concern of signal attenuation. To eliminate mechanical rotation rendered in conventional IVUS, it is proposed to manufacture a transducer array on a flexible substrate and wrap it around a cylindrical frame. The transducer of consideration is a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT). The whole device needs to be made out of polymers to be able to endure a …


An Adaptive Scheduling Scheme For Inhomogeneously Distributed Wireless Ad Hocnetworks, Adnan Fazil, Aamir Hasan, Muhammad Atique Ur Rehman, Ijaz Mansoor Qureshi Jan 2019

An Adaptive Scheduling Scheme For Inhomogeneously Distributed Wireless Ad Hocnetworks, Adnan Fazil, Aamir Hasan, Muhammad Atique Ur Rehman, Ijaz Mansoor Qureshi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

An efficient scheduling strategy guarantees the simultaneous transmission and successful reception by the scheduled nodes even inside a congested wireless ad hoc network. Owing to the dispersed nature of ad hoc networks, the node packing algorithm needs to be implementable without having network-wide channel state information and should additionally be able to pack the optimum number of successful transmissions. The proposed algorithm, for a network with nonhomogeneously distributed nodes, makes the decision to either inhibit or permit an active interferer around an active receiver based on the interferer?s transmission power. The analysis evidenced that the suggested scheme provides an estimated …


A Method For Indoor Wi-Fi Location Based On Improved Back Propagation Neuralnetwork, Jinghui Chen, Chen Dong, Guorong He, Xiaoyu Zhang Jan 2019

A Method For Indoor Wi-Fi Location Based On Improved Back Propagation Neuralnetwork, Jinghui Chen, Chen Dong, Guorong He, Xiaoyu Zhang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In order to achieve high precision on indoor location, a Wi-Fi indoor location method based on improved back propagation (BP) neural network is proposed. The classical BP neural network is optimized in real time by the ant colony optimization algorithm. Meanwhile, the momentum term is introduced to construct an improved four-layer BP neural network model. The model uses the Wi-Fi signal feature as the input of the BP neural network and succeeds in the area classification under multiple Wi-Fi signal features. The experimental results demonstrate that the improved BP neural network can increase the classification accuracy of the classifier effectively, …


Qpsk-Dual Carrier Modulation For Ultra-Wideband Communication In Body Areanetwork Channels, Yasi̇n Karan, Sali̇m Kahveci̇ Jan 2019

Qpsk-Dual Carrier Modulation For Ultra-Wideband Communication In Body Areanetwork Channels, Yasi̇n Karan, Sali̇m Kahveci̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Dual carrier modulation (DCM) using orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) improves the performance in multipath fading channels. In the literature DCM is proposed with 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) for ultra-wideband (UWB) communication, with four bits per symbol to keep reliable high date transmission over longer distances. Body area network (BAN) standards address transmission reliability more than data rate. UWB is one of the physical layers proposed in BAN standards. In this study, DCM is used with quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) instead of 16QAM to have better performance in reliable transmission. The performance of QPSK-DCM is analyzed and compared with 16QAM-DCM, …


Channel And Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation Based On Projection Onto Abidimensional Basis, Roberto Carrasco Alvarez, Ramon Parra Michel, Aldo Gustavo Orozco Lugo, Marco Antonio Gurrola Navarro Jan 2019

Channel And Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation Based On Projection Onto Abidimensional Basis, Roberto Carrasco Alvarez, Ramon Parra Michel, Aldo Gustavo Orozco Lugo, Marco Antonio Gurrola Navarro

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Two of the most counterproductive effects that must be dealt with in communication systems in realistic environments are carrier frequency offset (CFO) and time-varying channels. These problems are usually addressed by using independent approaches for each one. This paper introduces an algorithm that attacks both of these effects in a joint fashion. It is based on a rough compensation of CFO, and after considering that the remaining CFO uncertainty can be seen as part of the time-varying channel a channel estimation that includes that composite channel is performed. Particularly, the channel estimation based on projection onto a bidimensional basis is …


A Light-Weight Solution For Blackhole Attacks In Wireless Sensor Networks, Bi̇lal Erman Bi̇lgi̇n, Selçuk Baktir Jan 2019

A Light-Weight Solution For Blackhole Attacks In Wireless Sensor Networks, Bi̇lal Erman Bi̇lgi̇n, Selçuk Baktir

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Wireless sensors, which are smaller and cheaper, have started being used in many different applications. Military applications, health care and industrial monitoring, environmental applications, smart grids, and vehicular ad-hoc networks are some of the best known applications of wireless sensors. In some applications, especially military, environmental, and health care applications, it is required that the communication between sensor nodes be encrypted to achieve privacy and confidentiality. In this work, some modifications have been made to the ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol, mostly preferred in wireless sensor networks, to make data communications more reliable. The proposed routing protocol is shown …


Space-Track Modulation And Coding For High Density Aerial Vehicle Downlinknetworks With Free Space Optical And Visible Light Communications, Burhan Gülbahar Jan 2019

Space-Track Modulation And Coding For High Density Aerial Vehicle Downlinknetworks With Free Space Optical And Visible Light Communications, Burhan Gülbahar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Aerial vehicles (AVs) have challenges in terms of realizing low complexity and wide coverage area wireless communications architectures, especially for crowded or high density groups of AVs with state-of-the-art free space optical (FSO) and radio frequency (RF) based system designs. FSO architectures generally target point-to-point high gain directional links while requiring strict acquisition and tracking due to the narrow beam width of laser transmitters with challenges of vibration, turbulence, misalignment, atmospheric absorption, scattering, and fading. In this article, a novel multiuser free space optical system design of modulation and coding denoted by space-track modulation and coding (STMC) is proposed for …


Verifiable Dynamic Searchable Encryption, Mohammad Etemad, Alpteki̇n Küpcü Jan 2019

Verifiable Dynamic Searchable Encryption, Mohammad Etemad, Alpteki̇n Küpcü

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Using regular encryption schemes to protect the privacy of the outsourced data implies that the client should sacrifice functionality for security. Searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) schemes encrypt the data in a way that the client can later search and selectively retrieve the required data. Many SSE schemes have been proposed, starting with static constructions, and then dynamic and adaptively secure constructions but usually in the honest-but-curious model. We propose a verifiable dynamic SSE scheme that is adaptively secure against malicious adversaries. Our scheme supports file modification, which is essential for efficiently working with large files, in addition to the ability …


Path-Oriented Random Testing Through Iterative Partitioning (Ip-Prt), Esmaeel Nikravan, Saeed Parsa Jan 2019

Path-Oriented Random Testing Through Iterative Partitioning (Ip-Prt), Esmaeel Nikravan, Saeed Parsa

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Path-oriented random testing aims at generating a uniformly distributed sequence of test data from a program input domain space to traverse a desired execution path of the program. To this aim, this article proposes a new algorithm to refine a program inputs domain space from invalid subdomains not covering the path. The validity of the subdomains is checked by a constraint propagation method against the path constraints (PCs). The proposed algorithm uses a divide and conquer technique to iteratively split the inputs domain into subdomains and each time refutes those subdomains that are inconsistent with the PCs. The remaining shrunken …


In-Field Failure Assessment Of Tractor Hydraulic System Operation Viapseudospectrum Of Acoustic Measurements, Saurabh Gupta, Mahdi Khosravy, Neeraj Gupta, Hemand Darbari Jan 2019

In-Field Failure Assessment Of Tractor Hydraulic System Operation Viapseudospectrum Of Acoustic Measurements, Saurabh Gupta, Mahdi Khosravy, Neeraj Gupta, Hemand Darbari

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Hydrological working conditions are critical indicators for the maintenance of tractor mechanical systems. This research presents a pseudospectrum approach to analyze the particle pollution level of the hydraulic filter in its aging process and thus on-time prediction and diagnosis of weak or faulty conditions. The practical experiments of pseudospectrum analysis are performed on oil filter sound records. For mobile application purposes, besides deployment of advanced audio recording equipment, three popular brands of cell phones are used. The soundtracks are recorded in different incremental stages of fluid contamination by pollutive particles until being choked based on the ISO4406 standard. The pseudospectrum …


State-Space Identification Of Switching Linear Discrete Time-Periodic Systems Withknown Scheduling Signals, İsmai̇l Uyanik, Hasan Hamzaçebi̇, Mustafa Mert Ankarali Jan 2019

State-Space Identification Of Switching Linear Discrete Time-Periodic Systems Withknown Scheduling Signals, İsmai̇l Uyanik, Hasan Hamzaçebi̇, Mustafa Mert Ankarali

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, we propose a novel frequency domain state-space identification method for switching linear discrete time-periodic (LDTP) systems with known scheduling signals. The state-space identification problem of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems has been widely studied both in the time and frequency domains. Indeed, there have been several studies that also concentrated on state-space identification of both continuous and discrete linear time-periodic (LTP) systems. The focus in this study is the family of LDTP systems that switch among a finite set of subsystems triggered by known periodic scheduling signals. We address the state-space identification of such systems in frequency domain …


Patient Comfort Level Prediction During Transport Using Artificial Neural Network, Zeljko Jovanovic, Marija Blagojevic, Dragan Jankovic, Aleksandar Peulic Jan 2019

Patient Comfort Level Prediction During Transport Using Artificial Neural Network, Zeljko Jovanovic, Marija Blagojevic, Dragan Jankovic, Aleksandar Peulic

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Since patient comfort during transport is a matter of paramount importance, this paper aims to determine the possibilities of applying neural networks for its prediction and monitoring. Specific objectives of the research include monitoring and predicting patient transport comfort, with subjective assessment of comfort by medical personnel. An original Android application that collects signals from an accelerometer and a GPS sensor was used with the aim of achieving the research goals. The collected signals were processed and a total of twelve parameters were calculated. A multilayer perceptron was created in the proposed research. The evaluation results indicate acceptable accuracy and …


Available Transfer Capability Enhancement With Facts Using Hybrid Pi-Pso, Abubakar Sadiq Ahmad, Sunusi Sani Adamu, Muhammad Buhari Jan 2019

Available Transfer Capability Enhancement With Facts Using Hybrid Pi-Pso, Abubakar Sadiq Ahmad, Sunusi Sani Adamu, Muhammad Buhari

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In deregulation, growth in electrical loads necessitates improving power delivery, while nondiscriminatory access to transmission grid is a requirement. Deregulation causes a significant rise in transactions, which requires adequate transfer capability to secure economic transactions. In sustainable power delivery, FACTS devices are deployed to enhance available transfer capability (ATC). However, the high investment cost of FACTS makes the problem formulation a multiobjective optimization: power transfer maximization and minimization of FACTS sizes. Furthermore, due to the complexity in optimizing the control variables of voltage source converter types of FACTS, often the solution results in local optima and high computational time. This …


Wavelet Energy-Based Stable And Unstable Power Swing Detection Scheme Fordistance Relays, Naga Chaitanya Munukutla, Venkata Siva Krishna Rao Gadi, Ramamoorty Mylavarapu Jan 2019

Wavelet Energy-Based Stable And Unstable Power Swing Detection Scheme Fordistance Relays, Naga Chaitanya Munukutla, Venkata Siva Krishna Rao Gadi, Ramamoorty Mylavarapu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Distance relays are susceptible to maloperation during postfault power oscillations in the system. This unintended operation of relays may lead to power system blackout. It is due to their inability to distinguish a stable from an unstable power swing and to take a tripping decision appropriately. This research paper proposes a fast and wavelet energy-based method to detect stable and unstable power swings for distance relays. The proposed method computes the angular velocity of an equivalent machine developed from the measurements available at a bus. The energy in the low frequency band of the equivalent machine angular velocity will assist …


Real-Time Implementation Of Electronic Power Transformer Based On Intelligentcontroller, Hakan Açikgöz, Ökkeş Fati̇h Keçeci̇oğlu, Mustafa Şekkeli̇ Jan 2019

Real-Time Implementation Of Electronic Power Transformer Based On Intelligentcontroller, Hakan Açikgöz, Ökkeş Fati̇h Keçeci̇oğlu, Mustafa Şekkeli̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Along with the rapid advances in power electronics and semiconductor technology, electronic power transformers (EPTs), which are expected to replace conventional power transformers in the future, are being developed and designed. This study presents the dynamic performance of the intelligent controller structure in the control of an EPT. The EPT structure, consisting of the input, isolation, and output stages, is designed for experimental and simulation studies. A three-phase pulse width modulation (PWM) rectifier is used to rectify the grid voltages at the input stage of EPT. The DC-bus voltage of the three-phase PWM rectifier is controlled by a neuro-fuzzy controller …


Transmission Expansion Planning Based On A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Approachunder Uncertainty, Ercan Şenyi̇ği̇t, Selçuk Mutlu, Bi̇lal Babayi̇ği̇t Jan 2019

Transmission Expansion Planning Based On A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Approachunder Uncertainty, Ercan Şenyi̇ği̇t, Selçuk Mutlu, Bi̇lal Babayi̇ği̇t

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Transmission expansion planning (TEP) is one of the key decisions in power systems. Its impact on the system?s operation is excessive and long-lived. The aim of TEP is to determine new transmission lines effectively for a current transmission grid to fulfill the model objectives. However, to obtain a solution, especially under uncertainty, is extremely difficult due to the nonlinear mixed-integer structure of the TEP problem. In this paper, first genetic algorithm (GA) approaches for TEP are reviewed in the literature and then a new hybrid GA with linear modeling is proposed. The proposed GA method has a flexible structure and …


A New Hybrid Gravitational Search-Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization Methodfor The Solution Of Economic Dispatch Of Power Systems, Mehmet Fati̇h Tefek, Harun Uğuz Jan 2019

A New Hybrid Gravitational Search-Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization Methodfor The Solution Of Economic Dispatch Of Power Systems, Mehmet Fati̇h Tefek, Harun Uğuz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The economic dispatch problem (EDP) is a complex, constrained, and nonlinear optimization problem. In the EDP, the active power bus should operate between the minimum and maximum bus limits to minimize the fuel cost. In this study, a fast, efficient, and reliable hybrid gravitational search algorithm-teaching learning based optimization (GSA-TLBO) method was proposed for the purpose of solving the EDP in power systems. The proposed method separates the search space into two sections as global and local searching. In the first part, searching was carried out by GSA method effectively to form the second search space. In the second part, …


Performance Enhancement Of Photovoltaic System Using Genetic Algorithm- Based Maximum Power Point Tracking, Brammanayagam Nagarani, Jothiswaroopan Nesamony Jan 2019

Performance Enhancement Of Photovoltaic System Using Genetic Algorithm- Based Maximum Power Point Tracking, Brammanayagam Nagarani, Jothiswaroopan Nesamony

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In recent years, enormous progress has been made on power generation using photovoltaic (PV) system. Solar power is one of the most promising renewable energy sources that is providing its benefit specifically in rural areas. With the increasing need for solar energy, it becomes necessary to extract maximum power from the PV array. The output power of the solar cells varies directly with the ambient temperature and Irradiation. Therefore, the challenge is to track maximum power from the PV array when environmental factors change. This paper focuses on increasing the efficiency of a PV array by incorporating artificial intelligence techniques. …


Automatic Generation Control Analysis Of Power System With Nonlinearities Andelectric Vehicle Aggregators With Time-Varying Delay Implementing A Novel Control Strategy, Nimai Charan Patel, Binod Kumar Sahu, Manoj Kumar Debnath Jan 2019

Automatic Generation Control Analysis Of Power System With Nonlinearities Andelectric Vehicle Aggregators With Time-Varying Delay Implementing A Novel Control Strategy, Nimai Charan Patel, Binod Kumar Sahu, Manoj Kumar Debnath

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Automatic generation control (AGC) also known as load frequency control plays a vital role in interconnected power system for frequency regulation. Electric vehicles (EVs) with battery as the storage device can participate in frequency regulation service. In practice, a large number of EVs are aggregated as a single unit called EV aggregator for participation in frequency regulation service in AGC system. Participation of EV aggregators in AGC system for frequency regulation will be encouraged in near future because EVs have less environmental pollution than the conventional vehicles. However, participation of EV aggregators in AGC system may introduce time delay which …


Design Optimization Using Dielectric Slab For Efficient Microwave Heating, Sofiya Ali Mekonnen, Si̇bel Yeni̇kaya Jan 2019

Design Optimization Using Dielectric Slab For Efficient Microwave Heating, Sofiya Ali Mekonnen, Si̇bel Yeni̇kaya

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, usage of a dielectric slab on the top and bottom sides, on the top side, and on the bottom side of a clay sample was presented as a means of improving heating efficiency in multimode applicator. In order to accomplish the optimization procedure, we used four different dielectric slab types having different thickness values. The simulated results show that by using additional dielectric slab it is possible to increase the electric field intensity inside the applicator and obtain higher power absorption rates within the sample and high-efficiency designs.


Design Of Inverted-F Antenna For Long-Term Evolution-Based Wireless Handhelddevices, Paulkani Iyampalam, Indumathi Ganesan Jan 2019

Design Of Inverted-F Antenna For Long-Term Evolution-Based Wireless Handhelddevices, Paulkani Iyampalam, Indumathi Ganesan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this article, a compact triple-band inverted-F antenna for long-term evolution (LTE)-based wireless handheld devices is presented. The proposed antenna comprises three arms, namely the radiating arm, shorting arm, and feeding arm. The structure of the designed antenna looks like an inverted F with folded L-shaped strip antenna. It has three resonant frequencies of 795, 2050, and 3405 MHz with a reflection coefficient of --11.7 dB, --15.1 dB, and --30.5 dB, respectively. The size of the suggested antenna is 10 $\times$ 35 $\times$ 0.8 mm$^3$ and it is built on the FR-4 substrate which is more compact and easy to …


Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure Of Multioperator Co-Sited Urban Base Stations, Ni̇yazi̇ Korkut Uluaydin, Tomasz Dlugosz, Şaban Seli̇m Şeker Jan 2019

Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure Of Multioperator Co-Sited Urban Base Stations, Ni̇yazi̇ Korkut Uluaydin, Tomasz Dlugosz, Şaban Seli̇m Şeker

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Mobile network operators (MNOs) concurrently use different generations of wireless technologies. The base stations (BSs) of different technology generations are co-located in order to decrease operational costs. Furthermore, the MNOs cooperate in order to co-site their base stations. Such an urban site includes more than 25 actively radiating antennas on average with different frequencies and modulations. Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) measurements performed in such an environment may have reduced accuracy. In this paper, the authors propose a new approach for the measurement of EMR in multiple mobile technology interwoven urban BS sites, where more than one operator exists. The maintenance activities …


Thd Minimization For Z-Source-Based Inverters With A Novel Sinusoidal Pwmswitching Method, Davood Ghaderi Jan 2019

Thd Minimization For Z-Source-Based Inverters With A Novel Sinusoidal Pwmswitching Method, Davood Ghaderi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents a modified sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) switching method for one-phase and investigated two-phase impedance-source inverter structures. The proposed structure generates pulses for a quasi- Z-source converter and this block produces a unilateral voltage sine wave in the block's output. This signal is applied to the inverter as its input wave. For this purpose, the novel SPWM method is proposed for power switches while being switched complementarily. Two power switches are used in the structure to generate the pure sinusoidal output voltage and to minimize total harmonic distortion (THD), which is an essential parameter in inverter design. …


Unsupervised Deep Feature Embeddings For Speaker Diarization, Rehan Ahmad, Syed Zubair Jan 2019

Unsupervised Deep Feature Embeddings For Speaker Diarization, Rehan Ahmad, Syed Zubair

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Speaker diarization aims to determine ?who spoke when?? from multispeaker recording environments. In this paper, we propose to learn a set of high-level feature representations, referred to as feature embeddings, from an unsupervised deep architecture for speaker diarization. These sets of embeddings are learned through a deep autoencoder model when trained on mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) of input speech frames. Learned embeddings are then used in Gaussian mixture model based hierarchical clustering for diarization. The results show that these unsupervised embeddings are better compared to MFCCs in reducing the diarization error rate. Experiments conducted on the popular subset of the …


Limited-Data Automatic Speaker Verification Algorithm Using Band-Limitedphase-Only Correlation Function, Ángel Pedroza, José De La Rosa, José De Jesus Villa, Aldonso Becerra Jan 2019

Limited-Data Automatic Speaker Verification Algorithm Using Band-Limitedphase-Only Correlation Function, Ángel Pedroza, José De La Rosa, José De Jesus Villa, Aldonso Becerra

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, a new method to deal with automatic speaker verification based on band-limited phaseonly correlation (BLPOC) is proposed. The aim of this study is to validate the use of the BLPOC function as a new limited-data automatic speaker verification technique. Although some speaker verification techniques have high accuracy, efficiency usually depends on the extraction of complex theoretical information from speech signals and the amount of the data for training the algorithms. The BLPOC function is a high-accuracy biometric technique traditionally implemented in human identification by fingerprints (through image-matching). When applying the BLPOC function in automatic speaker verification through …


Exploring Bigram Character Features For Arabic Text Clustering, Dia Eddin Abuzeina Jan 2019

Exploring Bigram Character Features For Arabic Text Clustering, Dia Eddin Abuzeina

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The vector space model (VSM) is an algebraic model that is widely used for data representation in text mining applications. However, the VSM poses a critical challenge, as it requires a high-dimensional feature space. Therefore, many feature selection techniques, such as employing roots or stems (i.e. words without infixes and prefixes, and/or suffixes) instead of using complete word forms, are proposed to tackle this space challenge problem. Recently, the literature shows that one more basic unit feature can be used to handle the textual features, which is the twoneighboring character form that we call microword. To evaluate this feature type, …


Word Sense Disambiguation Using Semantic Kernels With Class-Based Term Values, Ayşe Berna Altinel, Murat Can Gani̇z, Bi̇lge Şi̇pal, Eren Can Erkaya, Onur Can Yücedağ, Muhammed Ali̇ Doğan Jan 2019

Word Sense Disambiguation Using Semantic Kernels With Class-Based Term Values, Ayşe Berna Altinel, Murat Can Gani̇z, Bi̇lge Şi̇pal, Eren Can Erkaya, Onur Can Yücedağ, Muhammed Ali̇ Doğan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, we propose several semantic kernels for word sense disambiguation (WSD). Our approaches adapt the intuition that class-based term values help in resolving ambiguity of polysemous words in WSD. We evaluate our proposed approaches with experiments, utilizing various sizes of training sets of disambiguated corpora (SensEval). With these experiments we try to answer the following questions: 1.) Do our semantic kernel formulations yield higher classification performance than traditional linear kernel?, 2.) Under which conditions a kernel design performs better than others?, 3.) Does the addition of class labels into standard term-document matrix improve the classification accuracy?, 4.) Is …


Adaptive Switching Gain Sliding Mode Control For Speed Regulation In Pmsms, Yanwei Huang, Yuqing Xie, Zheyi Liu Jan 2019

Adaptive Switching Gain Sliding Mode Control For Speed Regulation In Pmsms, Yanwei Huang, Yuqing Xie, Zheyi Liu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

To suppress uncertainties caused by parametric variations or disturbances, an adaptive switching gain (ASG) is proposed for integral sliding mode control (ISMC) to regulate speed in permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs). According to system uncertainties, the ASG is designed to adjust the switching gain to suppress the chattering. The adaptive law is a positive value resulting in an increment of the switching gain when the tracking trajectory is outside the boundary layer. Conversely, it is negative with a decrement of the gain. Further, it improves a convergent rate by the function of the reciprocal of the tracking error when the …