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.

Extraction of electromagnetic target poles from multiple scattered fields with damped Min-norm method

Abstract: In this study, the estimation of complex natural resonance frequencies (target poles) by using damped minimum-norm (DMin-norm) method is presented. The method mainly utilizes from the scattered fields belonging to multiple aspect angle/polarization cases of a target in resonance scattering region. By employing DMin-norm algorithm, the proposed method constitutes a function from which target poles can be efficiently extracted as its roots. However, the method in its conventional form should be executed as many times as the number of scattered fields to collect sufficient number of resonance frequencies. Therefore, the method is further improved in terms of computational time to acquire target poles with a single process for multiple scattered data. The described method is applied to a dielectric sphere having high number of target poles and good agreement between estimated and theoretical poles is observed.

A Populated Iterated Greedy Algorithm with Inver-Over Operator for Traveling Salesman Problem

Abstract: In this study, we propose a populated iterated greedy algorithm with an Inver-Over operator to solve the traveling salesman problem. The iterated greedy IG algorithm is mainly based on the central procedures of destruction and construction. The basic idea behind it is to remove some solution components from a current solution and reconstruct them in the partial solution to obtain the complete solution again. In this paper, we apply this idea in a populated manner IGP to the traveling salesman problem TSP. Since the destruction and construction procedure is computationally expensive, we also propose an iteration jumping to an Inver-Over operator during the search process. We applied the proposed algorithm to the well-known 14 TSP instances from TSPLIB. The computational results show that the proposed algorithm is very competitive to the recent best performing algorithms from the literature.

What Makes Turkey and Turkish Immigrants a Cultural Polarization Issue in Europe? Evidence from European Right-Wing Populist Politics

Abstract: In spite of Turkey’s long history of candidacy to European Union (EU) membership, intense trade relations with European countries and the presence of Turks as one of the largest minority ethnic groups in Europe, Turkey and Turkish immigrants have still been instrumentalized as politically polarizing issues in European societies. This study aims to provide a comparative analysis of this instrumentalization process in European politics by asking how Turkish immigrants and Turkey are presented as a culturally polarizing issue within the framework of “cultural security” by right-wing populist political discourse. In this regard, three specific cases are analyzed by focusing on the instrumentalization of Turkish immigrants and Turkey’s accession to the EU. The first case is the Brexit referendum process in the United Kingdom (UK), especially the Vote Leave campaign. The second case is the Austrian domestic politics, in the aftermath of the “refugee (reception) crisis” and eve of the 2016 Austrian Presidential elections. The third case is the rise of Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in Germany and its entrance to German federal parliament.