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Hüseyin Akcan

Professor

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

Room:A412
Phone: +90 (232) 488 8287
huseyin.akcan - AT- ieu.edu.tr

Background

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, 2008 (currently New York University Tandon School of Engineering)
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 graph algorithms and complexity analysis. Recently, I'm involved in computer games design and implementation.

"Virtual body anthropomorphism increases drift in self-location: Further support for the humanoid shape rule"
Ege Tekgün, M. Cagkan Uludagli, Hüseyin Akcan, and Burak Erdeniz.
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, January 2022, doi: 10.1002/cav.2038

"A genetic algorithm based solution to the Minimum-Cost Bounded-Error Calibration Tree problem"
Hüseyin Akcan.
Applied Soft Computing, Volume 73, pages 83-95, December 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.asoc.2018.08.013

"All Colors Shortest Path problem on trees"
Mehmet Berkehan Akçay, Hüseyin Akcan, and Cem Evrendilek.
Journal of Heuristics (2018). doi: 10.1007/s10732-018-9370-4

"Complexity of Energy Efficient Localization With the Aid of a Mobile Beacon" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan and Cem Evrendilek.
IEEE Communications Letters, Volume 22, Issue 2, pages 392-395, February 2018. doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2772876

"Alleviating the Topology Mismatch Problem in Distributed Overlay Networks: A Survey" [ pdf ]
Vassilis Moustakas, Hüseyin Akcan, Mema Roussopoulos, and Alex Delis.
Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 113, pages 216-245, March 2016. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2015.11.038

"All Colors Shortest Path Problem" [ pdf ]
Yunus Can Bilge, Dogukan Çagatay, Begüm Genç, Mecit Sari, Hüseyin Akcan and Cem Evrendilek.
CoRR abs/1507.06865
"Reducing The Number Of Flips In Trilateration With Noisy Range Measurements" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan and Cem Evrendilek.
In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE'13), in conjunction with SIGMOD, pages 20-27, New York, NY, USA, June 2013.
"On The Complexity Of Energy Efficient Pairwise Calibration In Embedded Sensors" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan.
Applied Soft Computing, Volume 13, Issue 4, pages 1766-1773, April 2013, doi: 10.1016/j.asoc.2013.01.013

"GPS-Free Directional Localization via Dual Wireless Radios" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan and Cem Evrendilek.
Computer Communications, Volume 35, Issue 9, pages 1151-1163, May 2012. doi: 10.1016/j.comcom.2011.09.006

"On the complexity of trilateration with noisy range measurements" [ pdf ]
Cem Evrendilek and Hüseyin Akcan.
IEEE Communications Letters, Volume 15, Issue 10, pages 1097-1099, October 2011. doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2011.082911.111515

"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 121-124, 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.

Projects and Grants

ICT COST Action TD1202, Mapping and the citizen sensor, 2012-2016
"Development and analysis of 3D localization algorithms in mobile wireless networks". Principal Investigator, TÜBİTAK Career Project #112E099, with Cem Evrendilek, 2012-2014, 143,560 TL

Related publications:

"Complexity of Energy Efficient Localization With the Aid of a Mobile Beacon" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan and Cem Evrendilek.
IEEE Communications Letters, Volume 22, Issue 2, pages 392-395, February 2018. doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2772876

"Reducing The Number Of Flips In Trilateration With Noisy Range Measurements" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan and Cem Evrendilek.
In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE'13), in conjunction with SIGMOD, pages 20-27, New York, NY, USA, June 2013.

"Algorithmic aspects of GPS-free node localization in wireless sensor networks". Principal Investigator, Izmir University of Economics Scientific Research Project (BAP) #A0902003, with Cem Evrendilek, 2010-2012, $11,815.

Related publications:

"GPS-Free Directional Localization via Dual Wireless Radios" [ pdf ]
Hüseyin Akcan and Cem Evrendilek.
Computer Communications (2011), doi: 10.1016/j.comcom.2011.09.006

"On the complexity of trilateration with noisy range measurements" [ pdf ]
Cem Evrendilek and Hüseyin Akcan.
IEEE Communications Letters (2011), doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2011.082911.111515

Teaching

2017 - --

SE350 Game Design

SE352 Network Programming in Computer Games

SE355 Mobile Game Development

SE431 3D Modeling In Computer Games

SE432 3D Animation In Computer Games

2016 - 2017

SE310 Advanced C++: Templates and Generic Programming (Spring 2016-2017)

SE432 3D Animation In Computer Games (Spring 2016-2017)

SE352 Network Programming In Computer Games (Fall 2016-2017)

SE431 3D Modeling In Computer Games (Fall 2016-2017)

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2015 - 2016

SE310 Advanced C++: Templates and Generic Programming (Spring 2015-2016)

SE432 3D Animation In Computer Games (Spring 2015-2016)

CE605 Wireless Sensor Networks (Spring 2015-2016)

SE352 Network Programming In Computer Games (Fall 2015-2016)

SE360 Advances in Software Development (Object Oriented Programming in Java) (Fall 2015-2016)

SE431 3D Modeling In Computer Games (Fall 2015-2016)

2014 - 2015

SE310 Advanced C++: Templates and Generic Programming (Spring 2014-2015)

SE432 3D Animation In Computer Games (Spring 2014-2015)

CE605 Wireless Sensor Networks (Spring 2014-2015)

SE352 Network Programming In Computer Games (Fall 2014-2015)

SE360 Advances in Software Development (Object Oriented Programming in Java) (Fall 2014-2015)

SE431 3D Modeling In Computer Games (Fall 2014-2015)

2013 - 2014

CE221 Data Structures and Algorithms I (Summer 2013-2014)

SE310 Advanced C++: Templates and Generic Programming (Spring 2013-2014)

SE432 3D Animation In Computer Games (Spring 2013-2014)

SE352 Network Programming In Computer Games (Fall 2013-2014)

SE360 Advances in Software Development (Object Oriented Programming in Java) (Fall 2013-2014)

SE431 3D Modeling In Computer Games (Fall 2013-2014)

2012 - 2013

CE221 Data Structures and Algorithms I (Summer 2012-2013)

SE310 Advanced C++: Templates and Generic Programming (Spring 2012-2013)

SE432 3D Animation In Computer Games (Spring 2012-2013)

IES 507 Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks (Spring 2012-2013)

SE352 Network Programming In Computer Games (Fall 2012-2013)

SE360 Advances in Software Development (Object Oriented Programming in Java) (Fall 2012-2013)

2011 - 2012

CE221 Data Structures and Algorithms I (Summer 2011-2012)

CE222 Data Structures and Algorithms II (Spring 2011-2012)

SE360 Advances in Software Development (Object Oriented Programming in Java) (Spring 2011-2012)

CE221 Data Structures and Algorithms I (Fall 2011-2012)

SE310 Advanced C++: Templates and Generic Programming (Fall 2011-2012)

IES507 Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks (Fall 2011-2012)

2010 - 2011

CE301 Logic Design (Summer 2010-2011)

CS202 Data Structures and Algorithms II (Spring 2010-2011)

CS340 Advances in Software Development (Object Oriented Programming in Java) (Spring 2010-2011)

CS305 Concepts of Programming Languages (Fall 2010-2011)

CS310 Advanced C++: Templates and Generic Programming (Fall 2010-2011)

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)