Curriculum Vitae Name: Selma Ayşe ÖZEL Title and Affiliation: Associate Professor Dr., Çukurova University Contact Information: Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Department of Computer Engineering Cukurova University, 01330 Balcalı, Sarıçam, Adana, Turkey Telephone: +90 (322) 338 71 01 / (extension) 13 e-mail: saozel@cu.edu.tr saozel@gmail.com Education: 1999 2004 Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Thesis: Metadata-based and personalized Web querying Supervisor: Prof.Dr.Özgür Ulusoy 1997 1999 M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey Thesis: Programming of production scheduling algorithms Supervisor: Prof.Dr.Erdal Emel 1992 1996 B.Sc. in Computer Engineering and Information Sciences, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Academic Positions: 2012 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Çukurova University 2007 2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Çukurova University 2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Uludağ University 2003 2007 Instructor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Uludağ University 1999 2003 Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University 1997 1999 Computer Expert, Department of Industrial Engineering, Uludağ University Research Interests: Data Mining, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, Database Management Systems, Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing
Research Projects: 2013 Plagiarism Detection Supported by Web Usage Mining for Turkish Textual Documents, Project Director; supported by Çukurova University with grant no: MMF2013D8 2013 Selecting Sentiment Feature Subsets for Focused Crawlers, Project Director; supported by Çukurova University with grant no: MMF2013D10 2013 A Corpus-Based Online Morphological Analyzer and Word-Affix Frequency Dictionary of Turkish, Researcher; supported by TUBITAK with grant no: 113K039 2008 2011 An Internet-Based Search System for Scientific Events, Project Director; supported by Çukurova University with grant no: MMF2008BAP6 2000 2008 Query Languages for XML with Multimedia Presentations, Researcher; supported by NSF with grant no: INT-9912229 and TÜBİTAK with grant no: 100U024 Academic Honors: 1999 2004 Full Scholarship for Ph.D. study including tuition, stipend, and accommodation, Bilkent University, Turkey 1996 Full Scholarship for M.S. study including tuition, stipend, and accommodation, Bilkent University, Turkey 1991 1996 Full Scholarship for preparatory school and B.Sc. study including tuition, stipend, and accommodation, Bilkent University, Turkey 1993 1996 Dean s List in all semesters. 1991 Ranked second in the high school graduation. Thesis Supervision: Completed M.S. Theses: Mümine KAYA, Development of a Software on Distance Education Applications for Compilation and Plagiarism Detection of C Programming Language Assignments, Çukurova University, Department of Computer Engineering, 2011. Esra SARAÇ, Web Page Classification Using Ant Colony Optimization, Çukurova University, Department of Computer Engineering, 2011.
Courses Taught: Undergraduate Courses: Data Structures (2008 ) Data Management and File Structures (2009 ) Programming Languages (2008 ) Database Management Systems (2008 ) Systems Programming (2008 2009) Internet Programming (2008 2009) Introduction to Computer Programming I and II (2003 2007) Advanced Computer Programming (2003 2007) Introduction to Database Systems (2003 2007) Graduate Courses: Advanced Topics in File Systems (2013 ) Data Mining (2008 ) Information Retrieval Systems (2008 ) Web Mining (2011 2014) Database Management Systems (2010) Analysis of Algorithms (2004 2007) Publications: International Peer-Reviewed Journals: Kaya, M. and Özel, S.A., Integrating an online compiler and a plagiarism detection tool into the Moodle distance education system for easy assessment of programming assignments, Computer Applications in Engineering Education (2014), DOI: 10.1002/cae.21606 Saraç, E. and Özel, S.A., An Ant Colony Optimization Based Feature Selection for Web Page Classification, The Scientific World Journal Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 649260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/649260 Özel S.A., A Web page classification system based on a genetic algorithm using tagged-terms as features, Expert Systems with Applications (2011), vol. 38 no:4, pp. 3407-3415. Özalp (Özel) S.A., A Genetic Algorithm for Scheduling Jobs on Lines of Press Machines, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) vol. 3743, pp. 535 543, Springer-Verlag, 2006. Özalp (Özel) S.A., and Ulusoy Ö., Effective Early Termination Techniques for Text Similarity Join Operator, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Vol. 3733, pp. 791 801, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
Özsoyoğlu G., Altıngövde İ.S., Al-Hamdani A., Özel S.A., Ulusoy Ö., and Özsoyoğlu Z.M., Querying Web Metadata: Native Score Management and Text Support in Databases, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 29 (4): 581-634, December 2004. Özel S.A., Altıngövde İ.S., Ulusoy Ö., Özsoyoğlu G., and Özsoyoğlu Z.M., Metadata- Based Modeling of Information Resources on the Web, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 55 (2): 97-110, January 15 2004. Özalp A.A., and Özel S.A., An Interactive Software Package for the Investigation of Hydrodynamic-Slider Bearing-Lubrication, Computer Applications in Engineering Education,11 (3): 103-115, December 2003. Altıngövde İ.S., Özel S.A., Ulusoy Ö., Özsoyoğlu G., and Özsoyoğlu Z.M., Topic- Centric Querying of Web Information Resources, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) vol.2113, pp. 699-711, Springer Verlag 2001. International Proceedings: Saraç E., Özel S.A., Web Page Classification Using Firefly Optimization, in: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (2013 IEEE INISTA), 19-21 June, 2013, Albena Bulgaria. Ünal H. E:, Özel S.A., Ünal İ., Effect of tagged-terms on Web page classification accuracy. in: Proceedings of the 3 rd World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT 2012), November 14-16, 2012, Barcelona Spain. Mahsereci Karabulut, E., Özel, S.A., and İbrikçi, T., "A Comparative Study on the Effect of Feature Selection on Classification Accuracy", in: Proceedings of the 2 nd World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT 2011), November 23-26, 2011, Antalya. Kaya, M., and Özel, S.A., "Development of a Moodle Distance Education System for Çukurova University Department of Computer Engineering and Applying a Survey for Measuring Needs and Effectiveness", in: Proceedings of the 2 nd World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT 2011), November 23-26, 2011, Antalya. Özel, S.A., and Saraç, E., "Feature Selection for Web Page Classification Using the Intelligent Water Drop Algorithm", in: Proceedings of the 2 nd World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT 2011), November 23-26, 2011, Antalya. Özel, S.A., and Kaya, M. "An Online Compiler Module for Grading Programming Assignments on Moodle Distance Education System", in: Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT 2011), November 23-26, 2011, Antalya. Özel S.A., A Genetic Algorithm Based Optimal Feature Selection for Web Page Classification, in: Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA 2011), June 15-18, 2011, Istanbul,
pp.282-286. Özel S.A., Saraç E., Focused Crawler for Finding Professional Events Based on User Interests, in: Proceedings of the 23rd of the International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2008), October 27-29, 2008, Istanbul. Özalp (Özel) S.A., Özalp B.T., and Özalp A.A., Transient Shock Response of Supersonic Nozzles: A Visual Software Based Investigation, in: Proceedings of the 5th European Simulation (EUROSIM) Congress on Modeling and Simulation, September 2004, ESIEE Paris, Marne la Vallée, France. Özalp (Özel) S.A., Modeling and Scheduling of Jobs on Lines of Press Machines: A Heuristic Approach, in: Proceedings of the 5th European Simulation (EUROSIM) Congress on Modeling and Simulation, September 2004, ESIEE Paris, Marne la Vallée, France. Özalp A.A., and Özel S.A., Numerical Simulations on Slider Bearing Performance: Effects of Flow Geometry and Temperature Dependent Viscosity, in: Proceedings of the First International Exergy, Energy and Environment Symposium (IEEES-1), 13-17 July 2003, Izmir, Turkey, pp.139-145. Özsoyoğlu G., Al-Hamdani A., Altıngövde İ.S., Özel S.A., Ulusoy Ö., and Özsoyoğlu Z.M., Sideway Value Algebra for Object-Relational Databases, in: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference On Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August 20-23, 2002, Hong Kong, China pp.59-70. National Journals: Kaya M., Özel S.A., Development of a Software on Distance Education Applications for Compilation and Plagiarism Detection of C Programming Language Assignments, Çukurova Üniversitesi Fen ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi (2011), Cilt: 26-1, sayfa 98-106. Saraç E., Özel S.A., Web Page Classification Using Ant Colony Optimization, Ç.Ü. Fen ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi (2011), Cilt:25-2, sayfa 11-20. National Proceedings: Zorarpacı, E., and Özel S.A:, Nitelik Seçme Problemi için Diferansiyel Gelişim Algoritması ve Yapay Arı Kolonisi Optimizasyon Tekniğini Kullanan Melez Yöntem, ASYU2014: Akılı Sistemlerde Yenilkler ve Uygulamaları Bildiri Özetleri Kitabı, 9-10 Ekim 2014, İzmir. Kaya M., Özel S.A., Açık Kaynak Kodlu Veri Madenciliği Yazılımlarının Karşılaştırılması, Akademik Bilişim 2014, 5-7 Şubat 2014, Mersin. Kaya M., Özel S.A., Moodle 1.9.x e Karşı Moodle 2.x, Akademik Bilişim 2014, 5-7 Şubat 2014, Mersin.
Aksan Y., Özel S.A., Bektaş Y., Aksan M., Demirhan U.U., Mersinli Ü., Yılmazer H., Türkçe Tümcelerin Sonunu Belirlemede Açık Kaynak / Ücretsiz Yazılımlar ve Performans Analizleri, Akademik Bilişim 2014, 5-7 Şubat 2014, Mersin. Aksan Y., Aksan M., Özel S.A., Yılmazer H., Demirhan U.U., Mersinli Ü., Bektaş H., Altunay S., Web Tabanlı Türkçe Ulusal Derlemi (TUD), Akademik Bilişim 2014, 5-7 Şubat 2014, Mersin. Saraç E., Özel S.A., URL Tabanlı Web Sayfası Sınıflandırma, Akıllı Sistemlerde Yenilikler ve Uygulamaları Sempozyumu (ASYU 2010), 21-24 Haziran 2010, Kayseri. Saraç E., Özel S.A., Konferans Odaklı Arama, Çukurova Üniversitesi Mühendislik- Mimarlık Fakültesi 30.Yıl Sempozyumu, 16-17 Ekim 2008, Adana. Özel S.A., and Güvenir H.A., An Algorithm for Mining Association Rules Using Perfect Hashing and Database Pruning, in: Proceedings of the Tenth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN'2001), A. Acan, I. Aybay, and M. Salamah (Eds.), Gazimagusa, T.R.N.C. (June 2001), 257-264. Others: Altıngövde İ. S., Özel S.A., Ulusoy Ö., Özsoyoğlu G., Özsoyoğlu Z.M., SQL-TC: A Topic-Centric Query Language for Web-Based Information Resources, Teknik Rapor, BU-CE-0108, Bilkent Üniversitesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü, 2001. Emel, E., Öztürk, N., Bircan, S., Temel, Z., Kemiksiz, Y., Yağmahan, B., Özel, S.A., Söl, S., I 879 Endüstri Mühendisliği Laboratuarı Deney Kitabı, Uludağ Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Mimarlık Fakültesi, Endüstri Mühendisliği Bölümü, Bursa, 1998. http://endustri.uludag.edu.tr/tr/download/endustri.lab.foy.pdf Professional Activities: Program Committee Member, The 7th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (ACM MEDES 15), 25-29 October 2015, Caraguatatuba/Sao Paulo, Brazil. Program Committee Member, The 9th International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2015), February 22-27, 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/comicds15.html Program Committee Member, The 8th International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS2014), March 23-27, 2014 - Barcelona, Spain, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/icds14.html Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES2013), October 28 31, 2013, Neumünster Abbey, Luxembourg http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/13/. Program Committee Member, The 7th International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS2013), February 24 - March 1, 2013 - Nice, France, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/icds13.html
Demo Program Committee Member, The 38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2012), August 27 31, 2012, İstanbul, Turkey, http://www.vldb2012.org/ Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES2012), October 28-31th, 2012, Addis Ababa- Ethiopia, http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/12/ Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES2011), November 21-23, 2011 San-Francisco, USA, http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/11/ Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES2010), October 26 29, 2010, Bangkok- Thailand, http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/10/ Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES2009), October 27 30, 2009, INSA Lyon, France, http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes/09/ Reviewer, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Multimedia Tools and Applications, ELECO, ISCIS. Membership: 2004 ACM Professional Member 2001 2004 ACM Student Member