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Hüseyin Akcan

Assistant Professor

Izmir University of Economics
Department of Software Engineering
Sakarya Cad. No:156, 35330 Balcova
Izmir, Turkey

Room: 307
Phone: +90 (232) 488 8287
huseyin.akcan - AT- ieu.edu.tr

Background

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, 2008 (currently Polytechnic Institute of NYU)
M.S. in Computer Science, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, 2005
B.S. in Control and Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1999

Research

My research is mostly about GPS-free localization algorithms, data aggregation and energy efficient algorithms in wireless sensor networks. I'm also interested in the web and particularly in the web data.

"Managing cohort movement of mobile sensors via GPS-free & compass-free node localization" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan, Vassil Kriakov, Hervé Brönnimann and Alex Delis.
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 70, Issue 7, pages 743-757, July 2010.

"Geographic Web Usage Estimation By Monitoring DNS Caches" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan, Torsten Suel, and Hervé Brönnimann.
In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb'08), in conjunction with WWW, pages 85-92, Beijing, China, April 2008.

"Deterministic Algorithms For Sampling Count Data" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan, Alex Astashyn, and Hervé Brönnimann.
Data & Knowledge Engineering, Volume 64, Issue 2, pages 405-418, February 2008.
(In Top 25 most popular Data & Knowledge Engineering journal articles list: January-March 2008)

"A New Deterministic Data Aggregation Method For Wireless Sensor Networks" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan and Hervé Brönnimann.
Signal Processing: Special Issue on Information Processing and Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks, Volume 87, Issue 12, pages 2965-2977, December 2007.
(In Top 25 most popular Signal Processing journal articles list: July-September 2007, October-December 2007, and January-March 2008)

"Deterministic Data Reduction in Sensor Networks" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan and Hervé Brönnimann.
In Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS'06), pages 530-533, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2006.

"Practical and Efficient Geometric ε-approximations" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan, Hervé Brönnimann and Robert Marini.
In Proceedings of the 18th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG'06), pages 530-533, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 2006.

"GPS-free Node Localization in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks" [ pdf ] [ Journal version available pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan, Vassil Kriakov, Hervé Brönnimann and Alex Delis.
In Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE'06), in conjunction with SIGMOD, pages 35-42, Chicago, IL, USA, June 2006.

"Sampling Multi-Dimensional Data" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan, Alex Astashyn, Hervé Brönnimann, and Leon Bukhman.
Technical Report TR-CIS-2006-01, CIS Department, Polytechnic University, February 2006.

"Data Reduction and GPS-Free Node Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan
Ph.D. Dissertation, Polytechnic University, January 2008.

Teaching

2009 - 2010

CS209 Object Oriented Programming (Summer 2009-2010)

CS116 Introduction to Programming II (Spring 2009-2010)
CS340 Advances in Software Development (Advanced C++: Templates and Generic Programming) (Spring 2009-2010)
CS105 Discrete Structures of Computer Science (Fall 2009-2010)

CS307 Concepts of Object Oriented Programming (Fall 2009-2010)

2008-2009

CS201 Data Structures & Algorithms (Summer 2008-2009)

CS116 Introduction to Programming II (Spring 2008-2009)

IS202 Database Systems (Spring 2008-2009)

CS330 Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2008-2009)

CS105 Discrete Structures of Computer Science (Fall 2008-2009)

CS307 Concepts of Object Oriented Programming (Fall 2008-2009)

2007-2008

CS116 Advanced Programming (Summer 2007-2008)

Projects and Grants

Algorithmic aspects of GPS-free node localization in wireless sensor networks. Izmir University of Economics Scientific Research Project (BAP), with Cem Evrendilek, 2010-2012, 15,400 TL.

Professional Activities

Referee for journals

Program Committee Member

10th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP2010)

Misc.

Kd-Tree demo java applet for Computational Geometry course, cs917, Spring 2004.
I parcitipated in Google Summer of Code 2007. My project was A Generic Geometric Library.

Senior Projects of my students

Izmir Mass Transit Guide (İzmir Toplu Taşıma Rehberi): İzmir belediye sınırları içerisinde seçilen iki nokta arasında, başlangıç noktasından varış noktasına en hızlı ulaşımı sağlayacak şekilde belediye otobüslerini kullanarak aktarmaları da göz önünde bulundurup seyahat planı oluşturur. Oluşturulan planı harita üzerinde gösterir.

Bu projenin devamı için yeni bitirme öğrencileri alınacaktır. İlgilenenler gelip benimle konuşabilirler.
Proje ICAST 2010'da bildiri olarak sunulmuştur.

                               "Web-Based Mass Transit Guide"     [ pdf ]
                                Melihcan Türk, Gözde Kantarcı and Hüseyin Akcan
                                In Proceedings of the 4th International Student Conference on Advanced Science and Technology, Izmir, Turkey, May 2010.

Proje Konak Belediyesi tarafından düzenlenen 2010 Gençler Arası İnovatif Projeler Yarışmasında mansiyon ödülü almıştır.