Yaşar University

About: Yaşar University is a education organization based out in Izmir, Turkey. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Exergy & Job shop scheduling. The organization has 760 authors who have published 1436 publications receiving 20813 citations. The organization is also known as: Yaşar Üniversitesi.

Global Land Grab and the Balkans: Continuity and Changes in a Unique Historical Context

Abstract: Current developments concerning land grabs in the Balkans suggest that the region is re-experiencing in the post-socialist era what happened in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries due to the d...

An Application of Analytical Hierarchy Process for Simulation Software Selection in Education Area

Abstract: In recent years, there are many developments and differences in software products which are used for simu lation applications in many fields such as education. These developments in simulat ion software make it difficult for users to choose the most appropriate simulation package for their interest. Because of only the softwares which meet the system requirements will succeed, choosing simulation software package becomes an important issue and has vital importance. Hence to make this choice, applying Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) which is a mu lti-criteria decision ma king method and used for systematical decisions is very convenient and makes the decision process faster. In this study, the most important criteria determined by experts and academicians were discussed and compared to choose the most appropriate simu lation software program for education area.

More national less European? The comparison of the last two general elections in Turkey

Abstract: This article will examine how the media reported the 2011 election campaign in Turkey in comparison to the 2007 elections. In order to reflect the different ideological segments within the society (pro-secular, nationalist vs religious-conservative), four newspapers – Zaman, Cumhuriyet, Hurriyet and Posta – are chosen. The empirical evidence suggests that there are similarities between the analysis of the 2011 elections and the previous research findings of the 2007 elections with regard to the topics garnered, the main themes and the absence of the European Union-membership-related narratives. Yet, we also observe a major difference in the 2011 elections. The themes of the contestation between competing party programmes, values, and issue positions have shifted away from the secularism and Islam to the daily politics such as the economic progress, the military operations, the terrorist attacks, the corruption allegations and the Kurdish issue.

Improving performance of ACO algorithms using crossover mechanism based on mean of pheromone tables

Abstract: Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) Algorithms have been used to solve many optimization problems in various fields and several algorithms have been proposed based on ACO metaheuristic in the literature. This paper proposes a simple crossover mechanism based on mean of pheromone tables for ACO algorithms. Main purpose of the crossover operation is to produce solutions or individuals having greater performance than their parents by selecting useful parts. Original ACO Algorithms don't have crossover. Method that we developed employs more than one ant colonies and also solutions. Suitable low-cost average based operations are then applied to pheromone tables obtained after several iterations as crossover operator. Algorithm is tested on Traveling Salesman Problem using some benchmark problems from TSPLIB and results are presented. Our experiments and comparisons show that crossover mechanism improves the performance of ACO Algorithms.